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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2011 - Page 16
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Perrry’s at SouthPark has been
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in Charlotte for over 30 years.
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average
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using a priva
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security.
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checck the buyers’ expertise
and that theyy are graduate
gemologists
gemologists..
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coins, only sell
s to companies that sell
that type of valuables.
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What to Think About When You Are Thinking About
Choosing a Preschool
By Jen Lahn, director, Jewish
Preschool on Sardis
It’s the time of year when you
as parents will choose the best setting for your children to begin
their educational journey. A
child’s preschool experience lays
the foundation for future learning
so when choosing a preschool, it’s
important to select one that is the
best fit for your individual child.
What philosophy and style of
teaching will work best for your
child? What are your child’s
needs? In essence, you want to
choose a preschool where your
child can thrive and he or she will
be nurtured each day—a place
where their uniqueness is celebrated.
Below I will share some important areas to consider when choosing a preschool. Make an appointment to visit the schools you are
considering – ask questions, talk
to teachers and administrators,
consider the physical environment
and the overall “feel” of the preschool.
1. Consider the educational philosophy of the school. Ask the
Director about the school’s philosophy on early childhood education. Does the school follow a specific curriculum? How do teachers
individualize the day to meet each
child’s needs? Some preschools
focus heavily on academic skills
and consider social and emotional
development as secondary. How
feel confident that your child will
be cared for and that your needs
will also be met. If you have questions or concerns, will you be
comfortable asking them? Trust
your instincts in this process.
I invite you to visit The Jewish
Preschool on Sardis and enjoy a
private tour of our program. At
JPS, we are committed to meeting
the needs of each individual preschooler while working closely
with the parents to successfully
meet the developmental milestones for their child. I am available to answer your questions and
would love to meet with you to
show you our classrooms and program. Y
condition? Are the classdoes the school meet the
rooms spacious, clean and
needs of the whole child?
bright? Are there ample mateAre letter and number skills
rials for all of the children in
taught methodically or do
the class? Does the room look
the teachers tailor the proorganized and inviting for
gram to each child’s develyour little one? You should
opmental ability and intersee specific areas of play
est?
referred to as “centers” and
2. Is the school accredited
they should be full of materior licensed? Does it follow a
als that are fun for the chilclear set of guidelines and
dren. There is no reason for
rules so you as parents will
the children to know that they
know what to expect? How
are working on some serious
often is the program
skills when they are building
assessed and what is the
with blocks in the block cenpurpose of the assessment?
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degrees in this field? When you also an important indicator. Ask points that I outlined are
visit a school, observe the teachers the director about this to get a important, but above all,
as they interact with children. Do baseline. This will give you infor- the school must “feel”
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bring in visitors to meet with students and deliver unique programs; and allow the center to
expand its course offerings to
meet rising student demand.
“We are so thankful to Howard
and his family for this generous
and inspiring gift to the center and
to Carolina’s students,” said
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of Jewish History and Culture.
“The level of study and the quality of the research conducted by
UNC students is truly impressive.
Now, thanks to the Levine family,
our students can participate in
more projects and programs than
ever before.”
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backgrounds and a range of interests. As a Carolina alumnus with
an interest in supporting Jewish
organizations and causes, I
thought this was the perfect opportunity for me to support my alma
mater in a way that was personal
to me.”
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unites the public, students and faculty from various academic disciplines who share a passion for a
deeper understanding of Jewish
history, culture and thought. The
center offers undergraduate
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The Howard R. Levine Student
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research. When fully funded, the
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in the College of Arts and
Sciences with a permanent source
of funding to further the center’s
teaching mission.
“Through this gift, I hope students will have a more enriching
college experience and perhaps
have the means to take advantage
of learning opportunities that otherwise might not be within their
financial reach,” said Levine, who
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Davidson Community Players
premeiered the new play
Masterpiece by award-winning
author and playwright, Meir
Ribalow (continues through
March 13) at the Armour Street
Theatre.
The play is based on the true
story of one of the 20th century’s
most notorious art forgeries.
Dutch painter, Han van
Meegeren, decides to avenge himself upon a hostile and powerful
art critic by forging a Johnannes
Vermeer “masterpiece.” When the
painting is sold for a fortune, van
Meegeren continues the deception
rather than revealing the hoax.
Eventually, one of his forgeries
finds its way into the hands of
high-ranking member of the Nazi
party, and when a mysterious
investigator appears the unraveling begins.
To be sure, the Van Meegeren
story raises many, many questions.
Among them: what makes a work
of art great? Whether it is the work
of an acclaimed master like
Vermeer or a duplicitous forger
like Van Meegeren — we want to
know more.
The playwright, Meir Ribalow,
is currently Artist In Residence at
Fordham University in NY and
has had 23 plays receive 175 pro-
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leading to a degree or certificate at
an accredited institution that is
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ductions worldwide. He is also
Artistic Director of New River
Dramatists in Asheville, NC,
which in the past decade has
developed 345 new plays and
screenplays almost half of which
have already been produced or
optioned. Masterpiece was part of
a staged reading by New River
Dramatists in conjunction with the
residency
with
Davidson
Community Players in 2008.
Tickets prices: Students $10,
Seniors $15, Adults $18. All performances take place in the
Armour Street Theatre in
Davidson. The drama is suitable
for ages 13 and up. Y
Save The
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upcoming
Yiddish
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August 18-21
Wildacres
Retreat, Little
Switzerland,
NC
Israel, Part 8: Ascending Masada; Three B’not Mitzvah
Judy conducts the weekday
By Amy Krakovitz
morning service and the girls
3 AM. An alarm is not a
each read parts of the week’s
happy sound at this hour. And I
Torah portion. They sound
am still a little jet-lagged, not
magnificent, and they appear
accustomed to the time change,
to be glowing in the bright
so my sleep has not been good.
sunlight. Their joy is obviBut rise we must, the bus is
ous. The emotional words
leaving for Masada soon and
from their parents express
our goal is to watch the sun rise
pride, gratitude, and elation,
from the summit.
particularly David Label,
We have breakfast on the
bus. My yogurt and fruit are David Label, Lindsay Label, Sydney whose tears bring tears to the
fine, but I miss having coffee. Frankenberg, Lauren Label, and Brett rest of the group.
At the conclusion of the
The ride is very quiet; most of Frankenberg celebrating the girls’ B’not
service, Doron brings us
us are still quite sleepy. The Mitzvah on top of Masada.
around the mountaintop,
world around is dark, but the
Steps have been built into the showing us the points of interest
highway is lit up. The largest portion of the drive southward is on steepest part of the trail and hav- on the old fortress. We see the
the freeway. There are a few cars ing a railing to hold on to helps us ramp that the Romans built to
bring up the Tenth Legion. From
and many more trucks on the road. push up against gravity.
At the top, we find a restroom. the top, we can also see the
The sky begins to lighten
before we stop. What a great dis- Lindsay, her sister Lauren, and encampment areas of the 6000
appointment. When we arrive at Sydney Frankenberg need to men in the Tenth Roman Legion.
Even after the attack and
the foot of Masada, the sun has freshen up for their upcoming cerpeeked up over the Jordanian hill- emony. We wait for the cable car destruction by the Romans,
tops across the Dead Sea. No sun- gondola to arrive with the rest of enough of the fortress walls
rise from the top; the climb will be our group and the Torah for the remained intact for archaeologists
to identify storerooms, barracks,
with both the sun and air tempera- service.
The Torah arrives along with a cooking areas, common areas and
ture rising.
Our choice is hiking up the videographer and a musician, Ilan the synagogue, as well as other
Snake Path on foot or taking the Diamond, a guitarist sent to us by rooms. In one of the common
cable car. Of the 25 of us, most our tour operator, IsraelExperts. areas, Doron tells us, archaeolochoose to climb, including all the We move to the area of the moun- gists have found coin-like objects
children. Surprisingly, the three taintop that was used as a syna- with numbers on them. He says
girls who are to become b’not gogue during the times of both that these are the lots that were
mitzvah that day decide to climb Herod and the Zealots. There is no drawn on the rebels’ last night, the
as well. They are unaware that roof and the hot sun beats down. lots that would determine who
would die first, next,and eventualthey will be very tired and very
ly, last.
sweaty even before the service
It is a wonder that the rebels
begins.
were able to live up there for three
The Snake Path is not only long
years. But when we see the rooms
and winding, but very steep. It
that are left of Herod’s palace that
rises 900 feet in elevation, but
had been built there about 100
with all the serpentine twists and
years before the tragedy, Doron
turns, it takes me 41 minutes to get
explains that King Herod had lain
to the top. The Gilbert family is
in supplies of nonperishable food
the first to arrive at the summit,
for himself and his family, enough
using the steep climb as a training
run for the day.
One of the many mosaic tile floors to last him years and years. The
Those of us who are walking installed by King Herod for his palace cistern he built, as well, was so
large that the 960 rebels had
stop at intervals to take water. The on top of Masada.
enough water for a year after just
rising heat is dry, but our efforts
cause us perspiration none the Doron, on his harmonica, and Ilan, one good annual rainfall.
Now it is time to trudge down
less. Lindsay Label, on her deter- on his guitar, play some “Bat
mined way to her Bat Mitzvah at Mitzvah Blues” while we wait for the snake path and continue with
our adventures of the day. Y
the peak, is red-faced and strug- everything to be set up.
The three girls arrive, looking
Next: The Dead Sea, Ma’ale
gling. This is more work that she
bargained for, but her ultimate refreshed now, and beautiful in Adumim
their dresses and talitot. Rabbi
goal keeps her going.
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Sunrise over the Jordanian moun- Looking back down the snake path.
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preserving Ladino, a collective
term for the Judeo-Spanish languages that date back to the 15th
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Hebrew Cemetery Association
By Lorrie Klemons, publicity
Last month I wrote about the
fact that Jewish tradition calls for
Jews to bury our own and it is the
obligation of every Jewish community to do so. Little did I know
when I wrote the article, that only
a few short days later, my very
dear friends would be burying
their beloved forty-one-year-old
son at the Charlotte Hebrew
Cemetery.
While the very tide of nature
calls for children to bury their parents, it is always a tragedy when
parents have to bury a child, no
matter what the age of that child.
The loss of anyone you love is
heart-breaking. But when the loss
is a child, the pain is unbearable
and those parents are never quite
same. The heart is forever broken.
The emptiness of the heart can
never be refilled. As the community rallies to support the family
with condolences, with food, and
with prayer, the family grieves
their overwhelming loss. It will
take a long time to overcome that
loss and its accompanying sadness
and oftentimes, shattering of faith.
I have been an active member
of the Hebrew Cemetery
Association for the past five-plus
years. During those years, I have
been involved with budgetary discussions related to both cemetery
burial services and cemetery upkeep and maintenance. I never
really thought about the actual
cost involved when someone dies
and needs to be buried. The list of
loved ones and friends that I have
mourned grows larger and larger
each year - father, grandparents,
aunts, uncles, young friends,
young cousins, and a 33-year-old
brother-in-law. While I attended
many of their funerals and
mourned all of their losses, I never
stopped to think about the expense
involved in burying them.
It is hard to imagine that I have
been writing monthly articles
about the cemetery for more than
five years. Each month when I
write my article, my goal is to educate the Charlotte Jewish community about the cemetery and to
glean community support for the
cemetery. I write about how for a
mere $72 per year ($6 per month)
you can guarantee a sanctified and
holy burial ground for those who
precede you in eternal life. And in
doing so, you also guarantee the
same holy burial ground for yourself (or loved one) upon your own
passing.
My articles always include a
solicitation for you the reader to
find out more information about
membership benefits, graves, and
prepaid funeral costs, but to be
quite honest with you, I never really gave that much thought. That
was until January 3 when my dear
friends had to make funeral
arrangements for their son. The
sticker shock of the cost involved
in laying their beloved son to eternal rest and the great anxiety about
how to pay for it only added to
their pain, suffering and misery.
I want you all to know that the
cost to give someone a basic
Jewish burial in Charlotte, NC
today can cost in excess of
$10,000. It is true that Jews are
commanded to bury our own.
However, make no mistake that
while the Charlotte Hebrew
Cemetery is administrated by a
volunteer board, it is a business.
There are salaries to pay, grounds
to maintain, graves to be dug,
graves to take care of, insurance to
pay, equipment to buy, an office to
maintain, etc.
Life is full of surprises and God
willing, most of them will be good
ones. We all know however, that
there will also be catastrophic surprise losses that will tear your
heart out. By being a member of
the Hebrew Cemetery Association
for 24 consecutive months, you
become eligible for discounted
cemetery costs in excess of
$2,000. Why wait? Join the
Cemetery Association today.
Contact Cemetery Director,
Sandra Goldman, at 704-576-1859
or 704-944-6854 or director@
hebrewcemetery.org. Visit the
cemetery website at www.hebrewcemetery.org. Y
Answer Scholarship Endowment Wins Grant from Leon
Levine Foundation to Help Send Mothers to College
The Leon Levine Foundation
has awarded a $10,000 grant to the
Answer Scholarship Endowment
to help send Mecklenburg County
mothers to college.
The Answer
Scholarship
Endowment, established in 2006,
provides
scholarships
to
Mecklenburg County mothers to
earn a four-year college degree or
an associates degree in nursing.
Recipients must be raising schoolage children, show demonstrated
need for the scholarships, and be
earning their first college degree.
Founder Susan Andersen, a res-
ident of Ballantyne, created the
fund as a way to strengthen local
families. Higher education leads
to better jobs, higher income, and
greater self-esteem in women,
which in turn helps set the same
standards and expectations for
their children. Students whose
parents did not attend college are
less likely to complete a college
degree themselves.
Many Answer recipients are
pursuing degrees in much-needed
areas such as health care and
social work, and some past recipients are now earning master’s
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degrees.
“By supporting mothers who
attend college, we increase the
family’s earning potential over
the long-term and significantly
increase opportunities for the children as well,” Andersen says. “We
are so grateful to the Levine
Foundation for seeing the potential of this project to help many
more women in the county.”
Andersen is actively seeking
contributions to the Answer
Scholarship Endowment after recognizing the extent of the need
among local mothers. Answer is
housed at Foundation for the
Carolinas, which provides financial oversight and administrative
support.
If you would like to make an
end-of-year, tax-deductible gift
to the Answer Scholarship
Endowment and help put these
families on the path to greater academic success, visit www.answerscholarship.org . For more information, contact the fund at
[email protected] or
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Matzoh Balls and Baseballs
Conversations with 17
Former Jewish Major
League Baseball Players
By Dave Cohen, with preface by
Rabbi Steven Lebow; foreword
by Steve Greenberg
As “America’s favorite pastime,” perhaps no sport has chronicled the rise of an immigrant
nation like baseball. From
German-American parents
came Babe Ruth, ItalianAmericans proudly point
to Joe DiMaggio, and
Jackie Robinson shattered
the color barrier for
African Americans that
had kept them out of the
game since the 1880s.
Certainly, almost every
Jewish baseball fan knows
the names of Hall of Famers Hank
Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, but
Jews have played professional
baseball in the United States since
the earliest days of the sport.
Indeed, over 160 Jews are known
to have played professional baseball during the modern era, contributing significantly to the game
on every level.
But who, other than Koufax, is
the only other Jewish pitcher to
win the Cy Young Award?
Which Jewish ballplayer’s
place in baseball history is
assured, as he has the distinction
of being the first major leaguer to
play a game as a DH? (hint: This is
our connection to this year’s
Charlotte Jewish Film Festival)
In his landmark book, popular
sportscaster Dave Cohen uncovers
this hidden history and goes right
to the source for
answers, interviewing
17 former Jewish
MLB players to hear,
in their own words,
what it was like to
play in the Majors the triumphs, frustrations, and everything
in between.
Dave Cohen has
been the radio voice of
Georgia State University Athletics
for the last 28 seasons, handling
the play-by-play for Panther basketball and baseball on WRASFM. Throughout his tenure covering the Atlanta sports scene,
Cohen has worked for WRASFM, WGST-AM, WCNN-AM,
WSB-AM, and WGUN-AM. He
also spent twelve seasons working
with the Furman University football radio network in Greenville,
SC until adding Georgia State
football to his schedule. He is
employed at Georgia State
University in the departments of
Alumni Relations and Athletics. Y
JNF Thanks Charlotte for Its Carmel
Forest Fund Raiser
By Beth Gluck, regional director,
JNF and Gabrielle Nazri, campaign executive, JNF
Thank you to Charlotte community for its extraordinary commitment to the protection and
regeneration of Israel’s Carmel
Forest.
Through a special initiative
organized by Hadas Kasher,
President of Charlotte Hadassah, a
committee of dedicated Hadassah
volunteers led the Charlotte community in raising $5,550 in support of JNF’s Operation Carmel
Renewal: From Black to Green.
This initiative is a long-range plan
to repair, restore and renew the
Carmel region after the worst fire
in Israel’s history and Hadassah’s
leadership is an outgrowth of its
dedication to planting trees in
Israel. To date, JNF has raised
over $4 million out of its $10 million goal and continues to support
Israel’s most urgent needs after the
Carmel catastrophe.
JNF-KKL Israeli Fire Ranger,
Aviram Zuck visited Charlotte for
the weekend and was honored to
meet the children of Temple Beth
El and the more than 70 adults
when he spoke at the Levine JCC.
Thank you to Rabbi Judy
Schindler at Temple Beth El for
organizing Ranger Zuck’s visit at
Beth El. The children listened with
wide eyes and open ears as the
Ranger Zuck showed pictures
from the Carmel fire and shared
facts about Israel. JNF’s century
old mission resonated in the new
beautiful sanctuary: we (every
Jew) are the caretakers of the land
and people of Israel on behalf of
its owners, Jewish people around
the world.
Israel will surely benefit from
Charlotte leaders’ vision of uniting
the Charlotte community for the
future of the land of Israel for
years to come. We look forward to
an on-going partnership between
Hadassah and members of the
Charlotte community and we
thank all those who contributed to
Operation Carmel Renewal. Y
(See the local story from
Hadassah on page 5.)
The Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte is offering a
Women’s Mission to Israel
June 20-30, 2011
This fantastic mission is like no other! In addition, to cooking demonstrations in the homes of two of
Israel’s top chefs, exclusive visits to Michal Negrin’s studio and Project Better Place, plus rafting in the
Jordan River, we will also be spending time with our sisters in Hadera, our partnership city, and building bridges between our two communities. Want to extend your stay? Join us for two days following the
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Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center
Charlotte Welcomes Florence Melton Adult Mini-School
ing classes we will be offering in Mini-School, a project of the
The Florence Adult Minithe Fall, check out their website Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
School is the fastest growing, pluwww.fmamas.org.il.
was established in 1987 and is the
ralistic Jewish learning program
The Florence Melton Adult largest global network of pluralisfor adults, with thousands of students enrolling each year in over
60 locations worldwide.
Charlotte recently joined the
Melton network, chosen to receive
a prestigious Covenant Grant to
enable three small-sized Jewish
communities to offer this program.
Melton goes beyond short-term
seminars, challenging adult Talli Dippold and Rabbi Andy Koren,
Jewish learners to engage in Director of Melton Program in
Jewish learning in a serious and Greensboro, NC.
comprehensive way. Each lesson
is designed to inspire and enlighten students irrespective of their passion and ‘out-of-the-box thinkprior experience or background. ing’ and bringing us all together in
Graduates receive a Certificate of Israel was itself an inspiring expeJewish Studies from the Hebrew rience.”
University of Jerusalem in recogKupchan praised the Levinenition of the significance of their Sklut Judaic Library & Resource
learning.
Center for sending Talli to the conTalli Dippold, Director of the ference and making this investLevine-Sklut Judaic Library and ment in the growth and success of
of the Florence Melton Adult the Charlotte Melton Mini-School.
Mini-School in Charlotte NC, Talli led an excellent session
recently traveled to Israel for the which was very well received by
16th
annual
International her fellow directors.
Director’s Conference which
Other conference presentations
brought together 40 directors and included those from Prof.
staff from The United States, Avigdor Shinan and Prof. Haim
Canada, Australia, South Africa Rabinowitz, of the Hebrew
and Israel.
University, Alan Hoffmann,
The central theme of “Start-Up Director General of the Jewish
Nation: Preserving Core Values in Agency, David Horowitz, Editor
a Climate of Change” was central of the Jerusalem Post and Dr.
to all the conference activities and Zohar Raviv, Chief Education
deliberations, from working on Officer of Birthright. Participants
expanding Melton best practices also spent a week from morning to
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and invention, and at the same highlight of the conference was
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CELEBRATING
OUR
128th
ANNIVERSARY
emple Kol Am
Evening At The “Shuk”
Please show your support for the greater Charlotte Jewish
Community by joining us for a great night of Hors
d'oeuvres, Cocktails, Music and Dazzling Silent Auction.
March 12th 2011
7 to 10 pm
Levine Museum of the New South
200 E. Seventh Street, Charlotte
Tickets $35.00 Per Person
Ticket price includes admission, museum exhibits and free parking in the 7th
street parking deck
The Berendt Family loves to visit the Levine-Sklut
Judaic Library and Resource Center.
They visit weekly to enjoy the selection of new
books, DVDs and educational material.
Contact James Fox at [email protected] to purchase tickets or call 803 389 0450
Temple Kol Ami is a newly formed Jewish congregation inYork County, SC
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We acknowledge with gratitude the following
donations to the Levine-Sklut Judaic Library
and Resource Center. These donations allow
us to expand the collection of books, DVDs,
CDs, videos, maps, posters, games and various
teaching aids. The entire community benefits
from these thoughtful gifts.
Friends of the Levine-Sklut JLRC Fund
Amy and Neil Andrews * Eleanor and Stuart
Bantit * Susan and Richard Brophy * Bishop
Cheen * Elizabeth and Bruce Cohen * Cynthia
and David Crane * Sarah and Scott Fligel *
Dana and Scott Gorelick * Evelyn Hochstat *
Leigh and Robert Jacobson * Hannah and
Franklin Kaunitz * Jeff and Carol Klein * June
and Jonathan Levine * Amy and Jeff Montoni * Amy and
Donald Mullen * Marcelle Peck * Larry and Dale Polsky
* Ginny Rosenberg * Susan and Bernie Sandler * Sara
and Michael Schreibman * Stephanie and Jonathan Simon
* Norman Steinberger * Faye and Daniel Whipkey
David and Debby Block in memory of Julius Silverman
David and Debby Block in memory of Dan Dubin Y
Mazel Tov & Congratulations
American Hebrew Academy Student Matt
Richman of Charlotte Named to AllConference Soccer Team
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The
American
Hebrew
Academy is proud to announce
that sophomore Matt Richman of
Charlotte was recently named to
the Triad Athletic Conference’s
All-Conference Soccer Team. This
honor ranks Matt among the area’s
elite soccer players for the 20102011 school year.
Matt was recognized along with
the rest of the All-Conference
Team in front of a crowd of 800+
following the Triad Athletic
Conference Championship Game
played between Caldwell and
Westchester High Schools. The
game was hosted by the Academy,
America’s only Jewish pluralistic
college-prep boarding school.
Academy Soccer Coach Mike
Johnston raved about Matt’s contributions to the squad this year.
“Matt is a tenacious on-the-ball
defender, is capable of lifting all
those around him and has a very
keen
tactical
knowledge,”
Johnston remarked. “He kept us in
many games and provided the
offensive spark we needed when
we moved him to the central midfield position. He is deadly accurate on free kicks and is an emotional leader for us.”
Matt represented the Academy
well, amassing six goals and three
assists in the eight regular season
games for which he was healthy,
manning the Center Back position.
While Matt enjoyed offensive success this season, he also knows
that there is more to the game.
“For me, the game of soccer is
more of a defensive game. It’s
about how difficult you can make
it for the opposing team to score,”
Matt explained. “Stopping numerous goal-scoring opportunities
was my life this year in soccer.”
But like many young players,
Matt mostly enjoys the camaraderie that he shares with his
teammates. “My favorite thing
about this year’s soccer season
was probably practicing and playing with all the soccer guys.
They’re the best and I hope they
feel that I supported them as much
as they supported me during this
season.” Matt will be sorely
missed by his coach and teammates next season, as Academy
juniors spend their fall trimester
on a high school study abroad program in Israel. Y
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
Jewish Family Services Introduces Social
Skills Groups for Children
All parents have questions and
concerns about raising children.
The JFS Parenting Place Initiative
was established in 2006 to address
a community-wide need to provide information and support and
inspire every family to be the best
they can be.
Over the last several years, JFS
Parenting Place has focused primarily on providing resources and
programming for preschool parents. In the fall of 2010, JFS initiated Love and Logic Workshops,
taught by Wendy Petricoff, a community member and board member of JFS trained as a facilitator
in Love and Logic. Love and
Logic Workshops are geared
towards both parents of young
children and parents of Tweens
and Teens. The response from participants of the Love and Logic
classes has been overwhelmingly
positive and JFS is committed to
continuing with providing this
incredible resource for families in
the greater Charlotte Community.
In order to determine programming needs in the Charlotte
Jewish Community, JFS Parenting
Place held several Focus Groups
in the summer and fall of last year.
The focus groups included a cross
section of Jewish community lay
leaders, parents, educators, and
Rabbis. The results of these Focus
Groups were clear. JFS needed to
expand therapy and support services to children and families who
have special needs. Specific identified needs included social skills
groups, parent support groups,
easy access to resources, and
assistance and help in navigating
the sometimes cumbersome and
complicated systems required to
obtain help for children and families. In February, JFS was excited
about embarking on the first of
these endeavors - Social Skills
Programming for children of various age groups.
Social Skills groups are ideal
for children who struggle with
social and emotional regulation
abilities, making and keeping
friends and cooperating with peers
and adults. Children who have
underlying developmental delays
or lagging skills might also be
appropriate for these classes.
The following groups were
scheduled and additional groups
will be held in May 2011.
The first Social Skills Group
started on February 23, with
weekly one-hour sessions for elementary-age children focusing on
social and emotional skill development. On Wednesdays from
3:30-4:30, two licensed clinical
therapists have utilized interactive
play therapy techniques and video
excerpts from the “Model Me
Kids Video Series” developed by
Kennedy Krieger to help enhance
skills for children ranging in age
from 8 to 12. Skills targeted
include use of appropriate greetings, social conversation skills,
handling losses and or disappointments, dealing with mistakes and
problem solving. Children have
also learned to practice relaxation
strategies and each child received
a relaxation CD for use at home.
The children are developing more
consistent understanding of their
feelings and ways to express them
effectively. Helping kids understand other people’s feelings has
been another area of focus during
this six week series.
Beginning March 8, preschoolers age 3 ½ through 5 years of age,
will be assisted with developing
skills that help with overall social
and emotional regulation abilities.
The “Model Me Kids” curriculum
will be incorporated into the
weekly one hour long sessions that
will run for six weeks from 10-11
AM. Every Tuesday morning.
Since younger children learn best
through play and movement the
JFS therapists will integrate
games, art activities, music and
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From Michele Lifshen
Reing’s Purim
Kitchen:
Hamantaschen
Filling ingredients:
1 c. pitted prunes
¼ c. dried cherries
1/3 c. dried cranberry-orange mix
1 t. orange zest
3 T. apricot fruit-only jam
½ c. finely chopped walnuts
1/3 c. mini semi-sweet chocolate
chips
1-2 T. orange juice (or more if
needed)
Dough ingredients:
½ c. sugar
¼ c. canola oil
2 T. butter or margarine, at room
temperature
1 lg. egg
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Lewis Spitzer
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and family
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1 t. vanilla
2 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
Pinch of salt
In a sm. saucepan, combine
prunes, dried cherries and cranberry-orange mix and ½ c. water.
Simmer over low heat till the
prunes are tender but still firm and
liquid has been absorbed, about 10
min. Drain and cool. In a food
processor, combine the prune mixture, orange zest and apricot jam
till smooth. Transfer mixture to a
med. bowl. Stir in walnuts, chocolate chips and 1-2 T. orange juice,
adding more if needed to adjust
thickness (mixture should be consistency of thick jam). Transfer to
a sm. bowl and set aside. (The filling can be made up to 2 days
ahead and kept, covered, in the
refrigerator.)
In a med. bowl, using an electric mixer on med. speed, cream
sugar, oil and butter till smooth.
Add egg and beat till smooth. Add
vanilla and beat till blended. In
another med. bowl, sift together
flour, baking powder and salt.
Using a wooden spoon, stir the dry
ingredients into the sugar mixture
till just combined. Gather the
dough into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap, and flatten slightly.
Refrigerate for 2-3 hrs. or
overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Line 2 baking sheets with baking
parchment or coat with non-stick
spray. Set aside. Divide the dough
in half. (Keep one half chilled
while working with other half.)
Roll out dough on a lightly floured
surface to a thickness of ½”. Using
a 2-1/2” round cookie cutter, cut
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out dough. Place ½ t. of filling in
the center of each circle. Turn
edges toward center, forming a 3cornered cookie. Pinch the corners
together and seal well, leaving a
small triangle of filling showing in
the center. Place about ½” apart on
the prepared baking sheets. Bake
for 10-15 min., or till tops are
golden. Transfer to tacks to cool.
Repeat with remaining dough.
(Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Freeze for
longer storage.) Yield: 4 dozen
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March 27 Kanof Lecture at the N.C. Museum of Art
Jewish philanthropist and art
collector Michael H. Steinhardt
will deliver the eleventh annual
Abram and Frances Pascher Kanof
Lecture at the North Carolina
Museum of Art on Sunday, March
27, at 2 PM in the Museum’s auditorium.
The lecture is free and open to
the public. A reception will follow
the lecture.
A near-legendary name in
Jewish philanthropy, Michael
Steinhardt has devoted his energy,
enthusiasm and considerable
resources to encourage the global
revitalization of Jewish culture
and identity, most notably through
the Birthright Israel project.
Steinhardt is also a distinguished art collector of antiquities,
contemporary art and South
American textiles. His collection
of Jewish ceremonial art is one
of the finest of its kind in private hands. For Steinhardt, art
collecting and philanthropy are
all part of his personal commitment to Jewish renewal and
optimism.
For this year’s Kanof
Lecture Steinhardt has chosen
a deliberately provocative
topic: “Reflections of a Judaica
Collector Who is Both an
Atheist and Deeply Jewish.”
He notes that his lecture “will
include the history of my collecting and how my theology, or lack
thereof, has impacted my choice
of objects.” As a passionate, mission-driven collector of art,
Steinhardt will offer sharp, surprising perspectives on the role of
art in the transmission of cultural
ideas and ideals from one genera-
tion to the next.
The Abram and Frances
Pascher Kanof Lecture is presented in honor and memory of two of
the museum’s most devoted
patrons. Until his death in March
1999 at age 95, Dr. Abram Kanof
served the Museum as a longtime
trustee and founding curator of the
Judaic Art Gallery. The program
As I entered their kitchen, I
could smell the answer.
In the well-known 1988 essay
“The Tent-Peg Business: Some
Truths About Congregations,”
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner wrote
that “Since no one can be sure of
what someone else must do to
serve the Holy One, anyone who
thinks he has a new idea or an old
idea must be given a chance.”
In 1965, when Ruth Notkin
began baking hamantashen with a
group of congregants as a means
to financially support the temple
Sisterhood (now called Women’s
League), she and her co-bakers
had little idea how the act would
bring together generations —
mother and daughters, granddaughters and grandmothers.
“This is what we do,” Notkin
said while feeding balls of dough
into a machine roller and then
turning the crank.
Not a religious act, yet each
year the result of the cranking is
thousands of dollars of tzedakah.
The sale of the hamantashen
helps keep the synagogue healthy,
and the donation of the finished
hamantashen to local retirement
homes keeps people happy.
I watched as the women went
about their work mixing, rolling,
cutting out circles of dough using
a Yuban coffee can, folding, filling
and finally baking.
“We each have a specialty,”
Notkin noted.
As the dough rolled, they talked
about friends, relatives and how
they had first came to the task.
“I got a phone call. They said
we want to honor you,” related
Ruth Wilkoff over the whirr of a
commercial-sized mixer.
“Religious institutions directly
support a wide range of social
activities well beyond conventional worship,” political scientist
Robert Putnam wrote in “Bowling
Alone: The Collapse and Revival
of the American Community,” his
groundbreaking 2000 book about
civic disconnection.
As I watched this team filling
tray after tray with hamantashen
(they sell 2,000 to 3,000 pastries
its new gallery building, home to
the permanent collection.
The North Carolina Museum of
Art, Lawrence J. Wheeler, director, is located at 2110 Blue Ridge
Road in Raleigh. It is the art museum of the State of North Carolina,
Beverly Eaves Perdue, governor,
and an agency of the Department
of Cultural Resources, Linda A.
Carlisle, secretary. Admission to
the Museum’s permanent collection and Museum Park is free.
Museum hours are Tuesday–
Thursday and Saturday–Sunday,
10 AM–5 PM; Friday, 10 AM–9
PM; closed Monday. For information call 919-839-NCMA, or visit
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Who Says “Not Every Day
is Purim”?
At Purim, Communal
Connections Heat Up
By Edmon J. Rodman
Los Angeles (JTA) — Who
would have thought in this cookie
cutter world, a heimishe hamantashen controversy?
Let me tell you the whole
megillah.
Out in Anaheim, CA, where
Mickey and Minnie live, in the
community where I grew up, there
is a changing group of women and
men who are a bunch of Purim
pixies. Baking in the Temple Beth
Emet kitchen for the past 45 years,
they have turned out tens of thousands of hamantashen.
Working in two shifts, with a
division of labor and specialized
tools, and using a not-so-secret
recipe, each year they baked hundreds of dozens of prune, mohn
(poppy seed) or apricot.
That is until two years ago,
when the chocolate chip controversy began.
But while the controversy
bakes a bit (350 degrees for 20
minutes, or until brown), you need
to hear the rest of this Purim story.
It goes beyond fillings and shapes
to asking how has the baking filled
and shaped the bakers’ relationships? And are they somehow providing their synagogue with more
than sweets?
For a fully baked answer, I took
the 30-mile drive from Los
Angeles to Anaheim to see if I
could discover what has kept
things cooking over two generations - through Vietnam,
Watergate, several Middle East
wars and eight rabbis.
First, I must tell you in complete journalistic disclosure, since
I grew up in the Temple Beth Emet
community, I know most of the
bakers. The temple has largely
aged in place. Among the afternoon baking crew are my junior
high school social studies teacher,
several friends of my family, a
woman who is the sister of a former college roommate and, for
good measure, my mother-in-law,
Shirley.
Was baking one of the activities
that held them to this spot half a
mile from the Magic Kingdom?
and the reception that follows
is the gift of the Kanof family.
The
North
Carolina
Museum of Art’s permanent
collection spans more than
5,000 years, from ancient
Egypt to the present, making
the institution one of the premier art museums in the
Southeast. The Museum’s
collection provides educational, aesthetic, intellectual,
and cultural experiences for
the citizens of North Carolina and
beyond. The 164-acre Museum
Park showcases the connection
between art and nature through
site-specific works of environmental art. The Museum offers
changing national touring exhibitions, classes, lectures, family
activities, films, and concerts.
The Museum recently opened
per year), I began to wonder if
their volunteer baking helped connect the crew to the synagogue
and to each other.
I found out firsthand.
“Would you like to try it?” one
of them asked.
After washing up, I folded, cut
and cranked. Only then could I see
how each task was interdependent
and how you really didn’t want to
mess up someone else’s work.
Each piece was inspected - this
was handmade love going out to
their fellow congregants.
Later I spoke with Polly
Schechter, a former neighbor, who
leads the morning shift. Asked
about her crew, she told me that “it
ties us to the temple, even for
those who don’t necessarily come
to services. At the end of the day
we have something to show for it.
It’s a high.”
The controversy? As you might
expect at a synagogue, it’s about
tradition.
Two years before, the morning
group broke the baking “minhag,”
or custom, of more than 40 years
by introducing three new flavors raspberry and apricot with chocolate chips and plain chocolate.
“They caught on like wildfire,”
Schechter said, adding that “Kids
like the chocolate chips better.”
The afternoon group won’t
make them.
“We’re too traditional for that,”
Notkin said. “The morning group,
they’re more modern.”
“Do you sense a little competition?” another baker asked.
No, but perhaps a small crumb
of pride.
At the end of my shift, I sampled a traditional apricot.
In so many ways it tasted just
right. Y
(Edmon J. Rodman is a JTA
columnist who writes on Jewish
life from Los Angeles.)
By Daniella Ashkenazy
Jerusalem (JTA) — According
to a Jewish maxim, “Not every
day is Purim.”
But when it comes to life in
Israel, there’s a steady stream of
reasons to laugh year-round. Just
open the Hebrew papers on any
given day for at least one incredible snippet of what passes for normalcy here. Antics aren’t limited
to those with harebrained schemes
or dumb-witted crooks. They
include officials from court judges
to pencil pushers courting trouble.
That includes a man from Beit
Shea who likes to strut about
dressed as a high-ranking army
officer. Michael Levi, 38, was
hauled into court last November
by local cops and charged with
impersonating an officer and “disgracing” the uniform. The public
defender and the state’s attorney
took one look at Levi and agreed:
Since everyone in Beit Shean
knows the flaky defendant is a
fake, Levi could continue to masquerade to his heart’s content, provided he promised to keep his
shenanigans within city limits.
These and other wacky stories
are detailed on the Chelm-on-theMed Web site (http://www.chelmon-the-med.com), which collects
and publishes weird man-bitesdog stories from the Israeli press.
Some clerks at the Jerusalem
Rabbinate wrote a short, humorous marriage manual to be handed
out to new grooms, but they decided to dress up the manual by comparing married life to a fish.
The result was a genuine kettle
of fish that roiled everyone. One
passage said a husband should
compliment his wife five times a
day, “even if you have to lie,”
because a woman who doesn’t
receive a steady stream of daily
compliments from her hubby will
be “like a fish out of water.”
Another gem warned newlyweds that living with the in-laws
would undermine building their
couplehood. Even “the tastiest fish
begins to stink after a while,” the
manual warned.
The red-faced Rabbinate
announced that the manual was
“an unauthorized private initiative” by some low-level pencil
pushers.
During Purim, alcohol flows
like water. But what constitutes
alcohol in Israel? Five years after
Israeli
police
inaugurated
breathalizer testing to establish
intoxication, an independent lab
test ordered by a traffic court
established what many drivers had
suspected for years: The device
wasn’t accurate.
In late 2009, 14 days of intensive testing by an analytical
chemist determined that the
breath-analyzing apparatus was
over-sensitive to humidity and
identified orange juice as alcohol.
In Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, a
29-year-old male student from Bar
Ilan University dressed up and
was dressed down all in a matter
of hours. Attired in a dress, tights
and boots, the glamorous imposter
was questioned after being caught
red-faced and red-handed on campus trying to score with his girlfriend by sitting for her university
entrance exams.
He swore his disguise was foolproof. Testers, however, considered the large dark sunglasses he
wore a dead giveaway. Police
released the pair without pressing
charges, saying, “They’re a normal couple who just went too far.”
But the most fantastic news
story ever tied to Purim in Israel
belongs to a 2002 classic. Thirty
professionals - engineers, silversmiths and sofrei stam (scribes of
holy texts) - banded to create what
undoubtedly is the most pricey
Purim noisemaker since the Big
Bang - or at least the fifth century
BCE, when the Purim story took
place.
Hardly for paupers, the 65
designer groggers made of silver,
silver with gold embellishments,
or silver-plated brass were priced
between $11,860 to $23,260 each
and marketed as collector’s items.
No wonder: Not only did they
contain a handwritten scroll with
the entire Book of Esther, but also
a tzedakah (charity) box, offering
buyers an ingenious way of recapping their investment. Y
The Charlotte Jewish News -March 2011- Page 31
Cookies and Challah Pudding
It’s Not Just Hamantaschen Anymore
By Linda Morel
New York (JTA) – “People go
for themes these days,” says a
mother from Manhattan’s Upper
West Side, explaining how the
custom of giving gifts at Purim
has escalate since her childhood in
the 1950s.
Back then, people followed tradition: Family members in every
household gave two foods to two
people. Called portions, these
foods were often homemade, and
hamantaschen were king.
Today people hire companies to
deliver Purim portions with pizzazz.
Last year, this Manhattan mom
received a breakfast basket from
friends that contained bagels,
cream cheese, cocoa, muffins and
mini-cereal boxes. Another couple
selected a chocolate theme, sending a tin full of everything: chocolate syrup, cake, cookies, pudding
and candy bars.
Although these upscale offerings are creative, they are a quantum leap from Mordechai’s intention after the Jews of Persia
defeated Haman. Overjoyed that
they had prevailed over Haman’s
wicked plot to annihilate them,
Mordechai declared Purim to be at
time to give charity to the poor
and shalach manot, or portions of
edible presents, to loved ones.
Traditionally, people have
exchanged a fruit and a baked
good, presented on trays.
In an attempt to preserve the
spirit of the holiday, the
Manhattan mom wants her chil-
dren to participate in a meaningful
shalach manot. Together they
bake hamantaschen, various cookies and small cakes. They place
pastries in Purim boxes, which can
be purchased at Judaica stores or
synagogue gift shops. Bringing
boxes to two of their friends, each
child also gives them to grandparents and family friends.
While the personal gesture is
waning in America, in other countries people bake sweets by the
dozen at Purim, turning it into a
virtual cookie exchange. Although
the holiday’s signature dish,
hamantaschen, remains popular,
people throughout the world also
stuff baskets with slices of cakes
and favorite cookies.
Typical of Jewish culinary history, Purim baking has been influenced by local cuisine, and every
country has its own customs.
Russian Jews make streudels, teiglach and sugar cookies. In
Morocco, people exchange small
breads filled with hard boiled
eggs. In Prague, they bake huge
challahs topped with oversized
braids, symbolizing the rope used
to hang Haman.
Usually celebrated on the 14th
day of the Hebrew month of Adar,
Purim is observed the next day by
people living in cities that were
surrounded by walls in ancient
times. Thus Israelis in Tel Aviv
should observe Purim on a different day than people in Jerusalem.
But the holiday is such an event
in Israel that many people celebrate on both days. Shalach manot
Generously coat
baking sheets with
non-stick spray.
Cut each stick of
is taken seriously, and
margarine into 8
baking begins several
pieces. Save. Mix
weeks in advance.
remaining ingreIsraelis prepare everydients in a lg.
thing from peanut butter
bowl. Add marcookies to favorite
garine,
mixing
Challah pudding.
Chanukah and Rosh
well till batter
HaShanah sweets.
holds together. By
In America, Jews often rounded teaspoons, roll batter in
exchange hamantaschen, honey palms into balls. Place on baking
cake and our country’s favorite sheet. Bake 15-20 min. till cookies
treat, chocolate chip cookies. are light brown. Cool 2 min.
Although many Americans pur- before removing from baking
chase pastries in bakeries, the sheets. Yield: 5 dozen. Recipe
recipes below take little time and freezes well.
no expertise. With help, children
can participate, too.
CHUNKY CHOCOLATE
Inspired by English bread pud- CHIP COOKIES
ding, challah pudding squares are Non-stick cooking spray
layered with creamy custard and 1 c. margarine, room temp.
golden raisins. This recipe serves a 1 c. dark brown sugar
practical purpose, consuming ½ c. granulated sugar
every bit of leftover challah float- 1-1/2 t. vanilla
ing in the freezer.
2 eggs
As the last holiday before 1-1/2 c. flour
Passover, Purim should be a bak- 1 t. salt
ing bonanza that dwindles a fami- 1 t. baking soda
ly’s supply of flour, a time to give ¾ c. pecans, coarsely ground
portions of love and cookies.
½ c. blanched almonds, coarsely
ground
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
¾ c. raisins
Non-stick cooking spray
6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 sticks of margarine at room
6 oz. white chocolate chips
temp
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2-1/2 c. flour
Generously coat baking sheets
1 t. baking powder
with cooking spray. Place mar1 c. sugar
garine, sugars, and vanilla in a lg.
¼ c. honey
bowl, beating on high speed till
1 c. creamy peanut butter
creamy, about 2 min. Add eggs,
1 t. vanilla
beating till well blended.
2 eggs
Gradually add flour, salt and bak¼ t. salt
ing soda. Add remaining ingrediPreheat oven to 350 degrees. ents, mixing well. Drop batter by
rounded teaspoons onto baking
sheets. Bake 8-10 min., till golden
and browning at edges. Cool 3
min. before removing from baking
sheets. Yield: 7 dozen. Recipe
freezes well.
were being punished by God. A
return to strict observance was the
only solution. Levity and luxury
were to be avoided.
As one of the new conditions,
wedding festivities became much
more somber, and holidays such as
Purim and Simchat Torah less raucous. The traditional Jewish
comics were outlawed.
During one discussion on July
3, 1661, Gordon relates, a rabbi
asked his colleagues,
what about the badkhn? He’s not really
funny, the rabbi said.
In fact, he’s abusive.
The elders agreed,
and the badkhn was
exempted from the
ban - he wasn’t a
merrymaker
and
wasn’t encouraging
levity. And that’s
how the badkhn
became the only
Jewish comic permitted in the shtetls,
Gordon says, and how his particular brand of sarcastic, bleak humor
set the tone for what we know
today as Jewish comedy. Before
the 1660s, the badkhn was the
least popular Jewish entertainer –
now he was the sole survivor.
“Jewish humor used to be the
same as that of the host country,”
Gordon said. “Now it began to
deviate
from
mainstream
European humor. It became more
aggressive, meaner. All of Jewish
humor changed.”
The badkhn’s role was secure
from the 1660s to the 1890s and
the beginning of the great Jewish
migration to America and to the
larger cities of Russia and
Ukraine. Gordon’s father, who
came to America in 1929 from the
Polish shtetl Bielsk-Podlasky,
remembers the badkhn of his
youth.
“He was always drunk in the
cemetery, telling jokes to kids,”
Gordon recalls. “He came out of
hiding for Purim and weddings.”
Little remains of
the badkhn today
outside Chasidic
communities,
where they are the
stars of the yearly
Purim spiels. When
Gordon lived in
New York in the
1980s, he would
take journalists to
Chasidic
synagogues in Brooklyn
every spring to witness these raucous
celebrations.
But the badkhn’s influence is
still felt in mainstream culture,
Gordon says, from the Borsch Belt
humor of the 1920s and ‘30s, to
contemporary Italian and AfricanAmerican comedians who trade in
barbed insults and self-deprecation.
“Even today, almost all Jewish
entertainers have badkhn humor,”
Gordon said. “Sarah Silverman is
completely badkhn.
“What did my father find
funny? Dirty jokes. Because that’s
the badkhn humor he grew up
with.” Y
Badkhn Belt?
Jewish Humor was Born in 1661, Prof Says
By Sue Fishkoff
Berkeley, CA (JTA) — The
Chmielnicki massacres weren’t
particularly funny.
From 1648 to 1651, nearly
100,000 Jews were slaughtered
throughout Ukraine by Bohdan
Chmielnicki and his roving bands
of Cossacks. It was arguably the
worst pogrom in history, leaving
hundreds of Jewish communities
in ruins.
Yet according to Mel Gordon, a
professor of theater arts at the
University of California, Berkeley,
those years of terror led to the canonization of what we now know as
Jewish humor. A lot of what we
laugh at during Purim festivities
stems from that horrific period.
And it happened on one day in
July 1661 when the badkhn - a
kind of cruel court jester in East
European Jewish life - was spared
a ban on merrymakers.
“We’re funny because of the
badkhn,” Gordon told JTA.
Gordon, who has authored
numerous books on theater, cinema and popular culture, lectures
widely on his badkhn theory at
Jewish and non-Jewish venues.
“Everyone says that Jews are
funny because they suffered so
much,” he said. “That’s ridiculous.
You think the rest of the world
hasn’t suffered? What about the
Armenians, the Biafrans, the
American Indians? None of them
are known for their humor.”
Nor are Jews funny because
they’ve “always been funny,”
another common falsehood,
Gordon says. It’s only in the past
100 years, with the rise of
Hollywood and nightclub society,
that Jewish humor has become a
staple of American popular culture.
Before the 1660s,
there were at least ten
different stock comic
types in shtetl life,
Gordon says.
One would rhyme,
one would juggle,
one might sing.
“At the turn of the 20th century,
the Jews were commonly perceived to be a humorless, itinerant
nation,” he wrote in Funnyman, a
2010 book co-authored with
Thomas Andrae about the shortlived Jewish comic book superhero.
So it’s not genetic, and it’s not
because of suffering or social marginalization, that led to this thing
we call Jewish humor - it’s the
badkhn.
The badkhn was a staple in East
European Jewish life for three
centuries, mocking brides and
grooms at their weddings. He also
was in charge of Purim spiels in
shtetl society.
His humor was biting, even
vicious. He would tell a bride she
was ugly, make jokes about the
groom’s dead mother and round
things off by belittling the guests
for giving such worthless gifts.
Much of the badkhn’s humor was
grotesque, even scatological.
“They would talk about drooping breasts, big butts, small penises,” Gordon said. “We know a lot
about them because they were
always suing each other about
who could tell which fart joke on
which side of Grodno.”
It’s that same self-deprecating
tone that characterizes the
Yiddish-inflected Jewish jokes of
the 20th century, Gordon points
out. Who is the surly Jewish deli
waiter of Henny Youngman fame
if not a badkhn, making wisecracks at the customer’s expense?
Before the 1660s, there were at
least ten different stock comic
types in shtetl life, Gordon says.
One would rhyme, one would juggle, one might sing. Wealthy folks
would hire a variety for their simchas, or festive celebrations.
But in the summer of 1661, a
decade after the Chmielnicki massacres and its resultant famines,
leading rabbis from Poland and
Ukraine - the “Elders of the Four
Councils” - met in Vilna to discuss
why such evils had befallen the
Jewish people.
The elders decided the Jews
CHALLAH PUDDING
SQUARES
8 eggs
1 qt. 2% milk
½ t. ground cinnamon
1 t. vanilla
1/3 c. sugar
Non-stick cooking spray
24 slices of challah, plus broken
pieces
8 pats of butter, at room temp
1 Rome apple, skinned, cored,
and cut into 1/4” slices
½ c. golden raisins
In a lg. bowl, beat eggs till
foamy. Add milk, cinnamon,
vanilla, and sugar beating well.
Put aside. Coat a 13”x9”x2” baking dish with cooking spray.
Buttering one side of eight slices
of challah, place in baking dish
buttered side down. Pieces may
overlap. Fill spaces in between
slices with broken pieces of challah. Scatter half the apple slices
and half the raisins on top. Pour
25% of milk mixture over this
layer. Over with another 8 slices of
buttered challah, repeating steps
for first layer. Pour another 25% of
milk over top. Cover with last 8
slices, repeating steps again. Pour
remaining milk evenly over top.
Dust with cinnamon and dot with
remaining butter. Bake at 325
degrees for 1 hr. and 20 min. till
top browns and custard sets.
Remove from oven and cover with
foil. Cool 30 min. before slicing.
Yield: 24 slices. Y
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