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Tishrei / Cheshvan 5776 October 2015 Fall 2015 Institute Of Adult Jewish Studies God’s Place in the Classroom Do Good Everywhere, from Anywhere CONTENTS october 2015 • tishrei / cheshvan 5776 volume 86 • number 10 Holland Hall presents the 2015 ARTworks gallery exhibition featuring local artist, Christopher Westfall. The gallery is open to the public October 19 through November 24, Monday – Friday, 9am to 4:30pm at Holland Hall’s Holliman Gallery. Friends LeveL 4 Patron Reception Tickets $2,500 masters LeveL 6 Patron Reception Tickets $5,000 dutch masters LeveL 8 Patron Reception Tickets become a patron $1,000 2015 7 10 12 18 4From the Editor 5What’s Nu? News Briefs by Brian E. Brouse 5Fall 2015 Institute of Adult Jewish Studies 6A City, a Shul and a Ship by Louis Davidson 8God’s Place in the Classroom by Lillian Hellman 9Harvest Lessons by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman aRTworks kicks off on Sunday, october 18, with the gallery opening of christopher Westfall’s work and exclusive Patron Reception in the Walter arts center. 9Mizel Acknowledges Donors Funds raised from this evening’s gallery sales and Patron sponsorships go toward supporting arts programming at Holland Hall and provide wonderful opportunities that are not possible without your support. 13Centennial Year Begins at The Synagogue To become a patron or learn more about ARTworks, please contact Katie Johnson at [email protected] or 918.481.1111. 8 10Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival Returns 12Night of Muses: An Annual Gala Unlike Any Other 14October Community Events hollandhall.org 18My Plans for 5776 by Shiri Achiasaf West 19Do Good Everywhere, from Anywhere by Heather Lewin 21Butterflies JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 3 From the Editor Founded in 1930 by Tulsa Section, National Council of Jewish Women (ISSN# 2154-0209) Tulsa Jewish Review (USPS 016-928) is published monthly by jewish federation of tulsa 2021 E. 71st St., Tulsa, OK 74136. Periodicals postage paid at Tulsa, OK. STAFF EXECUTI VE DIRECTOR Drew Diamond [email protected] | 918.495.1100 EDITOR Melissa Schnur [email protected] | 918.495.1100 ADVERTI S I NG MA NAGE R Mindy Prescott [email protected] ADVERTI S I NG RE P RESE NTATIVES Lee Hubby [email protected] Marcia Weinstein [email protected] BOARD P R ES I DENT, J EWI S H FE DE RATION OF TU LSA Dr. Myron Katz DESIG N MAG AZI NE D ESIGN BY Bhadri Verduzco, Verduzco Design [email protected] | verduzcodesign.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Tulsa Jewish Review, 2021 E. 71st St., Tulsa, OK 74136 4 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” –L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables October has always been one of my favorite months of the year. Fall is my favorite season, and by October, even the most cynical, weather-weary Oklahoman will concede that the season has arrived. There’s something crisp about the air. The leaves are changing colors. It’s time to add an extra blanket to the bed to fight off the slight chill in the air. It’s time to make my first batch of my mother’s beef stew and my own fall-favorite---pumpkin spice muffins. I just love October! In Jewish Tulsa, October has traditionally meant the start of the Institute of Adult Jewish Studies. For more than two decades, Temple Israel, Congregation B’nai Emunah, and the Jewish Federation of Tulsa have pooled their resources to provide the highest quality and best variety of courses for the members of our Jewish community. This year’s institute begins October 26 and will be held for six consecutive Monday nights. Be sure to check out the listing of this semester’s classes on the opposite page. If you’ve never taken an institute class or it’s been a while since you have, I encourage all of you to see what’s new this semester. This October marks the second year of the Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival. Begun last year as a partnership between the Federation, Circle Cinema and The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, the OJFF is back again this year with a variety of genres that make for a culturally enriching and entertaining experience. Film show times and descriptions are listed on pages 10–11, plan to attend as many as you can! There’s even special pricing for a festival pass to see every film! See … I bet that you, too, are now so glad you live in a world where there are Octobers! Happy Fall Y’all, Melissa What’s Nu? News Briefs Fed World, the latest local to Global Federation Update in the last month reported on the following: — In a live webcast sponsored by Jewish Federations and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz defended the Iranian nuclear agreement and told viewers that the deal would allow the U.S. and other countries to increase attention on Iran’s terrorist activities. Jewish groups have taken a range of positions on the Iran deal. U. S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the highest-ranking Jewish member of President Obama’s administration, has concerns about what he sees as the dangers of failing to approve the Iran agreement. ADL Executive Director Jonathan Greenblatt explained why his organization is opposing the deal. Some critics of the deal wonder if European nations can be trusted to uphold the key aspects of the agreements. — Countering the BDS (Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions) movement on college campuses was the subject of a conference call convened by the Federation-funded Israel Action Network and four participating organizations. On the call, Federation and JCRC leaders from 47 communities discussed strategies to address the growing de-legitimization campaigns against Israel during the upcoming academic year. — Groundbreaking engagement tactics keep the Chabad movement thriving while many Jewish organizations see declining participation. At the upcoming November 2015 General Assembly in Washington DC, one can explore the national strategy employed by the Chabad/ Federation partnership and hear Rabbi David Eliezrie of Chabad and Dr. Ron Wolfson, an expert in relational Judaism, discuss what we can learn from this work. —Compiled by Brian E. Brouse FALL 2015 INSTITUTE of ADULT JEWISH STUDIES MONDAYS, OCTOBER 26 – NOVEMBER 30 HOUR 1: 7 p.m. CLASS INSTRUCTOR(S) Laughing at Jews / Laughing with Jews Rabbi Marc B. Fitzerman and Rabbi Dan Kaiman (Oct. 26, Nov. 2, Nov. 9) Sacred Aging Rabbis Karen and Micah Citrin (Nov. 16. Nov. 23, Nov. 30) Journey of the Soul (2-hour course) Rabbi Yehuda Weg A Way into Liturgy Jennifer Selco When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Danny Kraft Exploring the Book of Job My Promised Land Shiri West (Please read the book prior to the 1st class) The Sherwin Miller Museum In-Depth Suzie Bogle, Museum Staff & Docents Judaism in a Broken World: Rachel Gold Theory and Practice of Change Beginning Hebrew: Part I Lianne Torianyk HOUR 2: 8 p.m. CLASS INSTRUCTOR(S) Intro to Judaism: Part I Rabbis Karen and Micah Citrin, Rabbi Marc B. Fitzerman, and Rabbi Dan Kaiman People of the Book: Modern Jewish Poetry Danny Kraft Israeli Film Shorts & Discussion Shiri West The Wonderful World of Knitting (for beginners) Renee Kaplan Functional Fitness: A Class to Prepare the Body Craig Descoteaux for Every Day, Real World Activities Intermediate Hebrew: Part I Lianne Torianyk All classes will be held at the Charles Schusterman JCC – 2021 E. 71 St. Co-sponsored by: Temple Israel, Congregation B’nai Emunah and the Jewish Federation of Tulsa For more information, call Mindy at 918.495.1111. JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 5 A City, a Shul and a Ship by Louis Davidson I f , like me , you’re a little squeamish about taking a claustrophobic ride in a tilting tram to the top of St. Louis’s 630 foot Gateway Arch, perhaps this literary visit to the city’s oldest Orthodox shul will be more up your alley. In the early years of our country, St. Louis was the jumping off spot for settlers heading west. It was where civilized river travel ended and the hazardous covered wagon journey began. Joseph Phillipson from Pennsylvania is the earliest known Jew to have permanently settled in St. Louis, opening his general merchandise store in December of 1807. Phillipson and his brothers were the only known Jews to live in St. Louis until 1816. It was twenty years later, 1836, when the first Jewish religious services were held by ten men in a little room over Max’s Grocery and Restaurant. A year later, the city’s first Jewish congregation was organized, and it survives today as the oldest Jewish congregation west of the Mississippi River. From these inauspicious beginnings, by the 1940s there were close to 50,000 Jews in the Gateway city and nearly 25 Orthodox synagogues alone. For the most part, these Orthodox congregations did not have official rabbis of their own. They followed the model of Eastern European Orthodox communities where the synagogues were organized and operated by knowledgeable, and sometimes not-soknowledgeable, lay leaders, all under the direction of the Chief Rabbi of the city. Most of those Orthodox synagogues are now gone; their members, children and grandchildren have moved to the suburbs, other cities or assimilated. As a documentary photographer, I am at least fifty years too late to photograph those wonderful old buildings. Only a handful of older Orthodox congregations still exist, and of those remaining, all but one have moved into new modern buildings. Bais Abraham, the oldest Orthodox congregation still existing in St. Louis, was founded in 1894 by 25 members in downtown St. Louis. Although its current building was built in 1973, its design is distinctly pre-World War II, retaining 6 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG much of the gemutlich charm of its longgone immigrant established forbearer. For Jews, the name St. Louis is much, much more than the name of a city that was once a launching point for westward bound explorers and settlers. The M.S. St. Louis is the name of a ship that is central to one of the most shameful anti-Semitic acts ever perpetrated by our government and other non-Nazi powers. The M.S. St. Louis was a 574-foot long diesel powered ocean cruising ship operated by Germany’s Hamburg America Line. With accommodations for 973 passengers, the ship regularly sailed the trans-Atlantic route from Hamburg to Nova Scotia, New York and the West Indies. When the St. Louis sailed from Hamburg on May 13, 1939, it seemed like a last hope to escape Nazi persecution for its 937 passengers, Jewish refugees seeking asylum in Cuba. Most countries, like the United States, had strict immigration quotas. Leaving Germany was not easy. You didn’t just grab a ticket on the next boat. A visa to enter another country was required and these were scarce as hen’s teeth. The refugees on board the St. Louis had purchased legal Cuban visas, unaware that a Cuban decree issued only days before their departure had retroactively invalidated their landing permits. Decree 55, issued by the Cuban government on May 5, drew a distinction between refugees and tourists by requiring refugees to have a visa (unobtainable) while tourists were welcomed without a visa. The Cuban Director of Immigration, Manuel Benitez, realizing that Decree 55 did not define the word tourist, decided to allow refugees into Cuba by calling them tourists. Benitez made a fortune selling authentic-looking landing permits to refugees before they embarked on the St. Louis. Even though the landing permits were individually signed by Benitez, an authorized official of the Cuban government, they were invalidated by Cuban President Frederico Laredo Bru, who, along with his cabinet, was jealous of Benitez’s unshared windfall. As the St. Louis sailed blissfully to Cuba, passengers had no idea that they would not be allowed to disembark in Cuba. On May 27 when the ship approached the harbor of Havana, it was instructed to anchor offshore rather than dock at the company’s pier. The six days after dropping anchor were full of intense negotiations between the Cuban government, the Joint Distribution Committee and the United States. Telephone records reflect the situation was thoroughly discussed by U.S. Cabinet members including Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. Indeed, the entire story of the plight of the refugees was covered by media around the world. Although the United States attempted to persuade Cuba to take the refugees, it refused. The United States refused entry as well. On Thursday, June 1 Cuban President Bru gave the St. Louis written notice to leave Cuban waters within three hours. If it did not leave peacefully, the ship would be forced out by the Cuban Navy. After several days steaming around the Caribbean, running short of food and fuel the St. Louis attempted to approach Florida, coming so close that the lights of Miami could be seen from the ship. Some passengers cabled President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge. He never responded. According to authors Rabbi Ted Falcon and David Blatner in Judaism for Dummies, when the “St. Louis was turned away from Cuba, America not only refused entry but even fired a warning shot to keep it away from Florida’s shores.” Captain Schroder, the commander of the St. Louis, was a non-Jewish German who took a heroic stand, refusing to return the ship to Germany until all of his passengers had been given entry to other countries. Eventually the ship returned to Europe, docking in Antwerp, Belgium on June 17, 1939. Great Britain had agreed to take 288 of the passengers; France took 224, Belgium 214 and the Netherlands 181. The reprieve was to be short. Following the Nazi invasions of Belgium, France and the Netherlands many of the refugees from the St. Louis met the gruesome fate of other Jews in those countries. St. Louis, gateway to the west, symbolizes all that is best in America. St. Louis, the ship, symbolizes the worst. As citizens of this great land, we need to know more about its history than sanitized Pollyanna tales about freedom and heroes lest we lose that freedom. ■ Exterior of Bais Abraham Interior of Bais Abraham MS St. Louis in Havana harbor not allowed to land. Friends and relatives in small boats to greet refugees. Refugees aboard St. Louis JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 7 God’s Place in the Classroom by Lillian Hellman, Director, Mizel Jewish Community Day School A of Mizel Jewish Community Day School, populated by students who are both Jewish and nonJewish, I am faced with the challenge of how to bring God into the classroom. Utilizing a Jewish perspective, each student at our school, no matter their faith, learns the Hebrew language, studies the Torah portion of the week, experiences and celebrates the Jewish holidays and talks about God. s t h e d i r ec to r provide an educational environment for our children to consciously explore God in their own lives. And so I ask myself, how should we bring God into the classroom? We do not force our students to believe in God—that is not our goal. Instead, we focus on God as a vehicle to inspire awe. Dr. Peg Sandel, the head of Brandeis Hillel Day School in San Rafael, California succinctly describes this objective: “We teach about God because it shifts students’ attention away from themselves and deepens their sense of wonder, of gratitude and of humility.” Teaching about God begins with text. During Torah study students encounter references to God as well as descriptions of God. Dr. Sandel continues: “When we Mizel students: Finding God through prayer and community In Jewish tradition, God is the Creator of all and the ultimate personification of unity, a concept highlighted in our daily recitation of the Shema. Our children are thinking about God—His image, His leadership and His involvement in the world. God is part of our culture—both ancient and modern and there is ample room to recognize different approaches to faith and different facets of the concept of “God.” What the Day School can do is 8 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG think about God as ‘above’ or ‘beyond’ or ‘infinite’ or ‘eternal’ or as capable of hearing everyone’s prayers or as creator, we are using metaphorical descriptors that direct our attention beyond ourselves and beyond the here and now…These descriptions of God can move us to ponder life’s grandeur.” In a book entitled The Significance of Religious Experience, Howard Wettstein describes different kinds of awe. One can stand in awe of human greatness, such as acts of heroism, compassion or caring, or great works of art. One can also be in awe of the natural world, such as the night sky, a beautiful sunset, or a worm (especially among small children, who seem to have a natural predisposition towards awe). Abraham Joshua Heschel spoke about awe as “radical amazement.” He wrote, “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.” For Heschel, prayer was not an intellectual exercise, but a way of expressing wonder at the world in which we live and living proof of the existence of a God. He believed that since we were created in the image of God, we become a reminder of God. And so we ask, how will others see God in us? Yet while we are focused on teaching this to our children at Mizel, so much of society appears to be moving away from God, resulting in a rise in nihilism (the belief in nothing but satisfying one’s own gratification) and a decline in spiritual belief. Narcissism, a close cousin to nihilism, is also becoming more prominent, resulting in the diminishment of empathy for one’s fellow human beings. The result is a greater disconnect between people and the world around them, leading to less caring and more violence. Humans are better, happier and more productive when they believe they have a purpose, that there’s a plan for them, a higher thing for which to strive. That is why we talk about God at Mizel, so that our children end up referring to themselves or to the world in ways that deepen their sense of wonder. This can engender gratitude and cause them to reflect on their behavior to one another. We strive to create community and family at our school, and we use Jewish values and an ongoing dialogue with God to reach that goal. This is the pedagogical relevance of God. Descriptions of the divine have the capacity to direct our attention beyond ourselves, beyond our knowledge, beyond belief, beyond nihilism and narcissism and toward a sense of awe at the grandeur of our world. To cultivate awe as a way to look at and live life—this is the role of God in the classroom. For more information about Mizel JCDS, visit our website: mizelschool.org. ■ Harvest Lessons by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman W the middle of Sukkot—our People’s big harvest festival and the model for the American Thanksgiving Day! Our Torah instructs, “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the harvest of your field. You shall leave some of your harvest for the poor and the stranger.” Regardless of how full or small the harvest is, it has to be shared. It is not enough just to understand another’s plight, to empathize or sympathize. We must be willing to do something about it by sharing our bounty with those who are hungry and homeless in our own community and beyond—our human brothers and sisters who often feel defeated and hopeless and ready to give up the struggle for existence. On this holiday the Torah commands us to be joyous. The Hebrew word is v’samachta—“you shall rejoice,” but by a slight change of only one vowel, our sages made it read v’seemachta—“you shall cause to rejoice.” Our teachers wanted to remind us that we must use our festive e are in It is not enough just to understand another’s plight, to empathize or sympathize. We must be willing to do something about it . .. days as occasions to bring joy into the lives of the stranger, the orphan, and the widow. We are not truly grateful until we make it possible for others to also experience gratitude. This is what we mean when we say “much obliged.” We mean that we are much obligated; we have incurred a debt which we are duty-bound to repay. From the Jewish perspective, what is involved is not generosity, but honesty. The truth is that every blessing we enjoy has been sacrificially paid for by others. We are indebted far beyond our means to make adequate repayment. The art of giving thanks ultimately means “no appreciation without reciprocation.” Many among us have been richly blessed. We may feel that we have made it to the Promised Land. I suggest to you that we are still in the desert. How do I know we are not in the Promised Land? Because others clearly have not made it. In the Promised Land there will be homes and food, security and peace—not just for some, but for all. May this Sukkot festival remind us of the blessings which are ours and the destination toward which we must still march. Let us get on the way, and let us reach out to give a helping hand to all God’s children whom we need to bring with us. ■ Mizel Acknowledges Donors DONORS TO THE HERITAGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION, ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR EDUCATIONAL OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES TO SUPPORT AND BENEFIT THE FLO AND MORRIS MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL. The Marilyn Diamond Cultural Fund Irv and Sharna Frank Foundation The Alvin and Dorothea Dundee Fund Shirley and Willie Burger Birth: Rena Maytal Selco The Joe Borg Scholarship Fund Rosalyn Borg Birthday: Mrs. Irving Rothman DONORS TO THE MIZEL JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL General Fund April and Richard Borg Happy Birthday: Carol Mandlebaum Speedy Recovery: Ira Rothman Shirley and Willie Burger In Memory: Mollie Coretz Cathey Wilson Educational Materials and In-Kind Gifts Richard and April Borg Janet Dundee and Jeff Darby Esteban Goldzweig Lillian and Howard Hellman Karen and Avi Mintz Joan Neidell JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 9 Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival Returns T he oklahoma jewish Film Festival (OJFF) is back for its second year Monday, October 19–Thursday, October 22. Conceived as a partnership between Circle Cinema, the Jewish Federation of Tulsa, and The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, the OJFF is a celebration of Jewish Film. The comedies, dramas and documentaries represent some of the best in Jewish film making. Drew Diamond, Jewish Federation of Tulsa Executive Director, said: “We are excited about this year’s Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival. The Festival will present an entertaining and thought provoking array of quality films. The comedies, dramas and documentaries represent some of the best in Jewish film making.” Special thanks to our Film Festival Screeners: Marcel Binstock, Alice Blue, Suzie Bogle, Brian Brouse, Jeff Darby, Janet Dundee, Estelle Finer, Katherine Frame, Mark Lobo, Mindy Prescott, Lynn Schusterman, Joe Secan, Eva Unterman, Shiri West, Clark Wiens, Kerry Wiens, Michelle Wiens, and Nancy Wolov. All viewings and events are at the Circle Cinema (10 S. Lewis Ave). Tickets are $10 per film or $70 for a festival pass which allows you entrance to all movies. Individual tickets are available at Circle Cinema or circlecinema. com; tickets will also be on sale at the door prior to each screening. To purchase a festival pass, please call 918.585.3456. This year’s OJFF is sponsored by: Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Adelson, Estelle Finer, LD Kerns Contractors, Oklahoma Israel Exchange (OKIE), the Charles & Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Sylvan. ■ 10 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG MON., OCT. 19 DOUGH / 6 P.M. Comedic Drama / English / Run Time: 94 min. Curmudgeonly widower Nat Dayan obstinately clings to his way of life and his livelihood as a kosher bakery shop owner in London’s East End. With a dwindling clientele and the pressures of encroaching big box stores, Nat reluctantly enlists the help of teenager Ayyash who has a secret side gig selling marijuana to help his struggling immigrant mother make ends meet. When Ayyash accidentally drops his stash into the mixing dough, the challah starts flying off the shelves and an unlikely friendship forms between the old Jewish baker and his young Muslim apprentice. Dough is a warmhearted and gently humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places. APPLES FROM THE DESERT / 8 P.M. Narrative / Hebrew with Subtitles / Run Time: 87 min. Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, this poignant drama centers around Rivka, the only child of UltraOrthodox Jewish parents from Jerusalem, who begins to secretly explore the secular world. She befriends Dubi, a young man from a kibbutz. When Rivka’s strict father discovers her plan to abandon their community, he arranges to marry her off to a widower with children. Rivka’s reserved mother is caught between her sense of duty to her husband and her desire to see Rivka happy. This timeless story confronts issues of tradition versus modernity, and the question of whether these two generations can reach reconciliation. TUES., OCT. 20 THE OTHER SON / 6 P.M. Drama / French with Subtitles / Run Time: 105 min. This drama is the moving and provocative tale of two young men—one Israeli, the other Palestinian. Joseph, an 18-year-old preparing to join the Israeli army for his mandatory military service, lives at home in Tel Aviv with his parents. A blood test for Joseph’s military service reveals that he’s not their biological son. During the Gulf War, Joseph was evacuated from a clinic along with another baby, and the pair were accidentally switched at birth. While Palestinian Joseph went to Tel Aviv with the Silbers, their actual Jewish son, Yacine, was brought to the West Bank by an Arab couple, Said and Leila. The revelation turns the lives of the two families upside-down, forcing them to reassess their respective identities, values, and beliefs. MR. KAPLAN / 8 P.M. Comedic Drama / Spanish with Subtitles / Run Time: 98 min. After fleeing Europe for Uruguay during WWII, Jacob Kaplan built a quiet life. Now 76, he begins to question his worth. After learning of a mysterious German prowling the shores of a nearby beach, he becomes convinced that he’s found a Nazi in hiding and plans to expose him. Expertly distilling a potent mixture of emotional depth and deadpan comedy, Mr. Kaplan is a vivacious meditation on family, aging, and the drive for significance. MON., OCT. 19 DOUGH / 6 P.M. THURS., OCT. 22 WED., OCT. 21 THE OUTRAGEOUS SOPHIE TUCKER / 2 P.M. Documentary / English / Run Time: 96 min. The rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker, an iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe, and Mae West, Sophie Tucker was the first woman to infatuate her audiences with a bold, bawdy and brassy style unlike any other. Using all of the “Last of the Red Hot Mama’s” 400-plus recently rediscovered personal scrapbooks, authors Susan and Lloyd Ecker take you on their seven-year journey retracing Tucker’s sixty-year career in show business. RAISE THE ROOF / 6 P.M. Documentary / English/Polish with Subtitles / Run Time: 85 min. An international team chases an improbable dream to reconstruct one of the magnificent lost wooden synagogues of Poland. These architectural marvels originated in the small 18th century town of Gwoździec. Inside the complex log structure, the prayer hall was elaborately adorned with Hebrew inscriptions and brightly painted animals. Eventually more than 200 of these unique wooden synagogues dotted the countryside, until the Nazis burned every last one to the ground. Though neither Jewish nor Polish, two former University of Georgia students mastermind a remarkable effort to rebuild this architectural wonder. Boston-based artists Rick and Laura Brown recruit hundreds of craftsmen, students and other volunteers to their cause. Employing old tools and artisanal techniques, the team sets about recreating the synagogue’s timber-framed roof and intricate mural designs. Despite seemingly impossible deadlines, hammering downpours and exhaustion, a profound relic slowly rises from the ashes. TO LIFE / 8 P.M. Drama / German with Subtitles / Run Time: 86 min. Jonas—a young man on the run—arrives in Berlin just in time to save Ruth’s life. Evicted from her apartment, the sarcastic but warm-hearted Ruth—an ageing Jewish cabaret singer—saw no other way out than suicide. Jonas, meanwhile, is driven by a secret, and fleeing from his love and his future. As Ruth recovers, she and Jonas begin to form a deep bond. Age-old Jewish culture and music are brought into the light of day as she tells him the story of her own impossible, tragic love for a non-Jewish man in postWWII Germany, a love burdened by the legacy of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. As Jonas discovers Ruth’s past and takes part in her present, his attentions and the passionate, lusty Yiddish songs of her youth help her find the way back to life. And, upon learning of Jonas’ incurable illness, it is she who will help Jonas find the strength to tackle his fears, to stop fleeing, and to forcefully propose “L’Chaim—To Life!” ONCE IN A LIFETIME / 6 P.M. Drama / French with Subtitles / Run Time: 105 min. A dedicated history teacher at a French high school taps lessons of the Holocaust in an effort to motivate her troubled students in an uplifting schoolhouse drama based on a true story. A teacher with 20 years of experience, Anne Gueguen is determined to give the best education she can to her underprivileged inner-city pupils. Overcoming their apathy, however, is proving to be more difficult than expected. Frustrated but undaunted, Anne tests her multicultural classroom with a unique assignment: a national competition on the theme of child victims of the Nazi concentration camps. The project is initially met with extreme resistance, until a face-toface encounter with a Holocaust survivor changes the students’ attitude dramatically. Despite their long-shot odds of winning, these once-rebellious teens soon begin to see one another—and themselves—in a whole new light. THE LAST MENTSCH / 8 P.M. Narrative / English, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Yiddish with English Subtitles / Run Time: 93 min. Born as Menachem Teitelbaum, Marcus Schwarz escaped Auschwitz with his life, only to exterminate his Jewishness. With no synagogue, Jewish friends or family, the hardened old man has done such an effective job of creating a new identity that, when faced with his own mortality, the rabbis refuse his about-face appeal to be buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cologne. Determined to return to his birthplace and establish his ancestry, Marcus enlists the help of Gül a brash, chain-smoking Turkish woman with a troubled history of her own. The unlikely duo set out on a road trip to a small village on the Hungarian-Romanian border, a journey that will irrevocably change them both. JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 11 Night of Muses: An Annual Gala Unlike Any Other T he sherwin miller Museum of Jewish Art proudly presents this year’s annual gala, Night of Muses on Sunday, October 18 at 6 p.m. To begin the evening, there will be a cocktail hour and silent auction featuring first-run, posthumous, limited edition lithographs from the Theodore Fried Collection. Theodore Fried was a talented young artist whose career intersected with the major movements in modern art during the twentieth century. From Paris in the 1920’s to New York after WWII, Fried was a member of the School of Paris and the Society of Modern Painters and Sculptors in New York. The titles of the Theodore Fried pieces are: Blue Loon, Cat’s Cradle, Girls at the Piano, Owl and Woman and Children Under Tree. As guests move into the Sylvan Auditorium they will witness performances by the fabulous 18-piece Modern Oklahoma Jazz Orchestra from the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, two singers from Tulsa Opera’s La Bohème and three very talented youth poets from Louder Than a Bomb-Tulsa. Also featured will be the one of a kind centerpieces exclusively made for this event from Purple Glaze. These pieces will be for sale at the end of the evening. Following the dinner program, an after party with dancing to live music from the Jam’Bassadors of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame will cap off the evening. Your participation helps the Museum’s mission to preserve and promote Jewish heritage, culture and history through art and education. Through the lens of both fine art and artifacts, the collection provides a testament and tribute to the resiliency of the Jewish people. Nancy and Ted Kachel are the chairs of this extraordinary evening. Through their guidance this year’s event will be one to remember. We look forward to greeting you and your guests at our Night of Muses. If you have any questions about becoming a patron, tickets, seating or general information, please contact Tracey Herst-Woods, Museum Director of Development & Programs at 918.492.1818. ■ Centennial Year Begins at The Synagogue F Jazz Singer by Theodore Fried 12 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG irst jewish settler in Oklahoma Territory? Boggy Johnson, a Civil War veteran who met and married a Chickasaw native. Pioneer rabbi of the Eastern Europeans who were the first Jews to arrive in Tulsa? Rabbi I. Kuperstein, a transplant from South Africa, who seems to have left almost as soon as he arrived. And the first permanent structure representing Jewish life in Tulsa? Congregation B’nai Emunah, designed by John T. Blair, architect of the Skelly Mansion, and built at Ninth and Cheyenne in 1916. Congregation B’nai Emunah will celebrate over a hundred years of Jewish settlement in Tulsa in a year-long Centennial Celebration beginning officially in November of this year. The festivities will get underway with a salute to the seven founding families of the congregation, many of whom came to prominence as business leaders and philanthropists in the City of Tulsa. Alfred E. Aaronson, father of the Tulsa City-County Library System, was among those who signed the official charter in 1915, along with Marion M. Travis, independent oil producer and the congregation’s first president. Marion’s brothers Dave and Sam, built the twin Italianate villas that now serve as the Tulsa Garden Center and the Tulsa Historical Society. Descendants of Robert Stekoll, N.C. Livingston, Jacob Beren, Emile Offenbacher, and Max Rubin are also expected to travel to Tulsa. The inaugural event is scheduled for Friday evening, November 13. A joyful Shabbat dinner will be served that evening, followed by a musical celebration and remarks from former Secretary of State, Susan Savage, representing her predecessor, S. L. Lyon, who signed the articles of incorporation in November 1915. A folio featuring the biographies of the founders will be distributed, along with a CD compilation of Synagogue melodies for the Sabbath. The evening will culminate with traditional circle dancing and a Champagne Oneg Shabbat. The centennial will unfold over the next thirteen months with scholars-inresidence, a presidential banquet, video histories, a photographic installation called Faces of B’nai Emunah, the publication of a Sisterhood congregational cook book, a memorial to the Synagogue’s roots in small-town Latvia, and a host of other events, large and small. The culminating gala will take place on December 11, 2016. A preliminary calendar, available through the Synagogue, features a presentation by Wall Street Journal Editor, Michael Ruby, on the Travis and Teller Families. That talk will take place on October 29 at 7:00 p.m. Please contact the Synagogue for details. The entire community is invited to participate in every centennial event. To reserve a space at the inaugural Shabbat meal at 6 p.m., please call the Synagogue Reservation Line at 918.935.3373. The cost is $25 per person. No reservations are necessary for the service beginning at 7:00 p.m. The Synagogue is an official Welcoming Congregation, opening its doors to its many friends in Tulsa at large. Together with its neighbors, B’nai Emunah hopes to build new bridges of shared commitment and community. ■ JEWI SHT U LS A.ORG 13 O C T O B E R CO M M U N I T Y E V E N T S Jewish Federation of Tulsa Flu Shots at the CSJCC • Thurs., Oct. 1 • 11 a.m.–1 p.m. • The Jewish Federation of Tulsa wants to ensure that our community stays healthy this flu season. The Visiting Nurse Association will once again be at our facility to make it easy and convenient to get a flu shot. No appointment necessary. Flu shots are $25 and pneumonia shots are $85. Questions? Contact Mindy Prescott at 918.495.1100 or [email protected]. Shlicha Open House • Sun., Oct. 4 • 2 p.m.– 5 p.m. • Please join community Shlicha Shiri West and her family at their home for the annual Open Sukkah! For questions or the address, please contact Shiri at 918.495.1100 or emissary@ jewishtulsa.org. Men’s Club • Wed., Oct. 14 • Noon. • A delicious lunch will be followed by our speaker, Mickel Yantz, Curator, The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. Cost of the luncheon is $7. Please RSVP to Falisha at 918.495.1100 or [email protected] by noon on Oct. 13. Ladies Who Lunch • Mon., Oct. 19 • Noon • Come enjoy pleasant conversation and great food at Polo Grill, 2038 Utica Square. Each person pays her own check. Please RSVP to Mindy at 918.935.3662 or [email protected] no later than Fri., Oct. 16. 2nd Annual Oklahoma Jewish Film Festival • Oct. 19-Oct. 22 • Circle Cinema • The OJFF is a partnership between Circle Cinema, Jewish Federation of Tulsa and The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. Please see pages 10–11 for information about these wonderful films! Community Garden Picnic • Sun., Oct. 25 • 12:30 p.m. • Food & Entertainment for Everyone! Singing, games and crafts. Hotdogs, hummus & more! Garden & farm-themed costumes encouraged. Please bring canned food to donate to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma. JCC Members: Children under 12: $4/Everyone Else: $8. Not a JCC Member Yet? Children under 12: $5/Everyone Else: $9. Free for children under 3. RSVP to 918.495.1100 or [email protected]. Institute of Adult Jewish Studies Fall 2015 • Mon., Oct. 26 • All classes will be held at the Charles Schusterman JCC, 2021 E. 71 St. Pre-registration begins at 6:15p.m., with first hour classes starting at 7 p.m. and second hour classes starting at 8 p.m. See class information on page 5. Men’s Club • Wed., Oct. 28 • Noon • A delicious lunch will be followed by our speaker, Heather Lewin, Director of Development & Community Relations. Cost of the luncheon is $7. Please RSVP to Falisha at 918.495.1100 or [email protected] by noon on Oct. 27. The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art Exhibit: State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda • Now–Feb. 16, 2016 • This interactive, multi-media exhibit illustrates the insidious allure of Nazi propaganda, the dismantling of democracy in Germany and the post-war “de-Nazification” process. Please join us to celebrate this exhibit at an opening reception on Thurs., Oct. 1 from 5-7 p.m. Docent-led tours available. Contact Cathey Wilson at volunteer@ jewishmuseum.net or 918.492.1818 Save the Date—Night of Muses: Museum’s Annual Gala • Sun., Oct. 18 • 6 p.m. • Join us for an evening of fun, food, and art at Night of Muses, The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art’s premier fundraising event. The festivities this year will include a silent auction featuring first-run, limited-edition lithographs from the Theodore Fried Collection; performers from The Jazz Hall of Fame; youth poets from Louder Than a Bomb; an after party with live music; and, as always, a cocktail hour and dinner. For patron information, please contact Tracey Herst-Woods, 918.492.1818. Congregation B’nai Emunah Sukkot for Everyone Dinner, Celebration and New Member Welcome • Fri., Oct. 2 • 6 p.m. Dinner/ 7 p.m. Celebration • Congregation B’nai Emunah is delighted to invite the entire community to the single most ginormous Sukkot Dinner in Oklahoma. We’ll gather in the sukkah on the south lawn of the synagogue. We hope that members and guests will be thrilled by what they see. Sukkot Dinner will be supported as always by a gift from Jenny Brouse and Brian Brouse. A joyful Sukkot celebration led by the members of Klay Kodesh, B’nai Emunah’s vocal and instrumental ensemble, will follow the meal. Call us at 918.935.3373 or email [email protected] to let us know you’re coming. The basic price for adults is $12, with scaled-down charges for children and tots. Please note that the charge for a household of limited means is $25. Hope to see you there! Closing Days of Sukkot • Sun.-Tues., Oct. 4–6 p.m. • With the ceremonial beating of willows at our regular 5:30 p.m. service, we will celebrate Hoshanah Rabbah as the holiday season begins to come to a close. That same evening, we’ll usher in Sh’mini Atzeret, a festival attached to Sukkot which spreads out over two days. Services each morning will begin at 9 a.m. Yizkor will be chanted at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 5. Simchat Torah Dinner and Dancing • Mon., Oct. 5 • 5:45 p.m. Dinner/6:45 p.m. Celebration • The synagogue will conclude its celebration of the Fall Holiday Season beginning with Simchat Torah. The night begins with a beautiful dinner in the Synagogue sukkah. Call us at 918.935.3373 or email reservations@ bnaiemunah.com to let us know you’re coming. At 6:45 p.m., Simchat Torah festivities will begin in the Kaiser Miller Auditorium. The congregation will celebrate the conclusion of the annual Torah reading cycle with whirling processions around a chuppah (wedding canopy) led by Rokday Emunah, the Synagogue’s dance ensemble. Look for balloons, confetti, noisemakers, crepe paper, willow branches, sequins, masks and feathers! The evening is filled with joyous song and treats for all. Zarrow Families Luncheon • Tues., Oct. 6 • 11 a.m. • Join us for the traditional finale to B’nai Emunah’s holiday celebrations, as members and friends gather following services for the annual Simchat Torah Luncheon. Lunch is complimentary; reservations are not necessary. Weather permitting, we will eat for the last time in the sukkah. Simchat Torah services begin at 9 a.m. Our thanks to the Zarrow Families for underwriting this final luncheon of the holiday season. BiBi-DiBi: Babies+Blessings+Dinner+Bedtime • Fri., Oct. 16 • 6 p.m. • Very young children and their parents are invited to join us for another soft and cuddly Shabbat experience. Parachutes, rattles and toys sit at the center of our circle while parents and kids share in the blessings of a peaceful Shabbat. A delicious, kid-friendly Shabbat dinner accompanies this program. Please call our reservations hotline at 918.935.3373 or [email protected] by Thurs., Oct. 15, to reserve your spot on the floor. Salon Emunah: The Travises and the Tellers • Thurs., Oct. 29 • 7 p.m. • Brooklyn- based poet and author Michael Ruby ties together two important family stories in the history of Congregation B’nai Emunah. The Travises were a founding family of the synagogue and Morris Teller served as our first rabbi. Join us for this salon style conversation held in the home of a member of the congregation. The talk will be followed by coffee and treats. Please note that there is no cost for this event, but we ask that you call the synagogue office to let us know that you’re coming and to get directions to the private residence. Shabbat for Everyone • Fri., Oct. 30 • 6:15 p.m. Dinner/7 p.m. Service • Love to dance? Love to sing? Love spending time with friends and family? Then Shabbat for Everyone is the place for you! Our monthly, kid-friendly Shabbat experience begins with a delicious dinner prepared by us, so you can just relax and enjoy. We then move into the sounds and movements of a joyous Friday night celebration. Your feet will be stomping as the music carries us forward into the night. Top it all off with a delightful story and you’ve got yourself one can’t-miss evening. No reservation is needed for the service at 7 p.m., but please contact us at 918.935.3373 or reservations@ bnaiemunah.com by Wed., Oct. 28, to guarantee your place at the dinner table. Temple Israel TGIS! Shabbat & Sukkot Service followed by Catered Dinner • Fri., Oct. 2 • 5:30 Pre-Oneg/6 p.m. Service & Dinner • Join us for a joyful, musical service for all ages with the TI band and kids choir followed by Shabbat dinner by Just Catering by Orr. RSVP by contacting Jory at [email protected] or 918.747.1309 by Wed., Sept. 30. Dinner is generously sponsored by The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation. Shabbat Morning & Sukkot Service • Sat., Oct. 3 • 10:30 a.m. • Be part of our warm and caring minyan. Participatory prayer, music and Torah study followed by a potluck lunch. Bring a dish to share or just bring yourself. In the Sukkah, weather permitting. Simchat Torah & Consecration • Sun., Oct. 4 • Learning 4:30 p.m./Dinner 5:30 p.m./ 6:15 p.m. Service • Come rejoice with the Torah as we end and begin our cycle of reading. There will be engaging learning opportunities for all ages at 4:30 p.m. and a festive dinner at 5:30 p.m. RSVP to [email protected] or call the Temple office. The service and celebration of new students will begin at 6:15 p.m. We’ll unroll the Torah for all to see, sing, and rejoice, followed by Israeli dancing and sweets for all. Picnic Service • Fri., Oct. 9 • 5:45 Picnic/6:30 p.m. Service • Bring your own picnic dinner (drinks and utensils provided). Then welcome in Shabbat in our beautiful outdoor sanctuary (weather permitting). Great for all ages—children can pray and play on the grass! Young Kehillah at Pinot’s Palette (Riverwalk) • Sat., Oct. 10 • 6:30-8:30 p.m. • Take a glass of wine in your left hand a paint brush in your right (unless you’re left handed in which case reverse) and bring your artistic flair for this one of a kind Young Kehillah event. RSVP to Rabbi Micah at [email protected] or to the YK Facebook page. Babysitting will be available. All young adults are welcome. ShalomFest • Sun., Oct. 11 • Noon-5 p.m. • Get ready for ShalomFest 2015, a lively afternoon of Jewish culture, arts, food, music and fun! 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I remember the week I came here “just to try it out.” It was in May, and I was here the week of Rabbi Sherman’s goodbye party at Temple Israel. I was taken to lunches and dinners and meetings everywhere. I even spent some time with Edna and her new baby in the house that later on was to become mine. It all felt so new, and it made me very curious. Then later that August I arrived to start working here – for real this time. There were some other newcomers to the community–Rabbi Kaiman and the Rabbis Citrin. I wasn’t all alone being new! It was almost the New Year, and I just couldn’t get my head id you know GOT OLD FILM? FilM coVersion! 8¢/FOOT 8mm, super 8 & 16mm Home Movies to dVd cutting edge electronics • Flat Panel tVs • custom Home theater • smart tVs • cameras • direct tV 7030 S. Lewis • 71st & Lewis, NW corner • 918-495-0586 18 J EW I SHTU L S A.ORG around what to do first. There was so much to do, so much on my agenda, even before looking at the community’s calendar! Two years later, sitting in my relatively new office at the Federation, I am looking back and relaxing. I am quite satisfied with my work here, and even if I didn’t get to do all of what I had planned, I learned that it is mainly because the pace here is different. This time around, after Toronto years ago on my first Shlichut, I am absolutely fine with that. That pace soothes me now. I am embracing it. A new year is always a good time to look at what has been done and what should be done in the year to come. I have been putting a lot of focus on encounters−either with the teens, the families, the chefs, the musicians, various speakers and so on. This will continue with the Tiberias Israeli folk dancing group that will arrive here in May. But prior to that delegation, we will have one teen mifgash and one student exchange with Carver and Nofarim in Tiberias. We are planning to have chefs here again in February, and a Tulsa physician going to Israel, as well as an OU medical student exchange with Poriyah hospital. Additionally, one of Israel’s biggest musicians is going to be hosted by the Tulsa Roots Festival. But the main event of 5776 is to have the “P2G at 20”—our big and festive 20 year celebration of Partnership with the Tiberias Sovev Kinneret region. It is going to be awesome and exciting and interesting! We are going to get a mission from our community to go to Israel as part of this (see the Save the Date ad in this issue). This is a big deal. It is getting to see our Partnership live in action and working with our Israeli group as well as with our Milwaukee, St. Paul and Madison cluster communities to establish true connections between ourselves and Israel. With all this looking forward, don’t forget to come to my annual Open House/ Sukkah on October 4. It’s always a fun event, and we love welcoming the entire community into our sukkah! Love to all, hope you are enjoying wonderful holidays this year! L’chaim! ■ Do Good Everywhere, from Anywhere by Heather Lewin, Director of Development and Community Relations T spark in every one of us, that wants to do good in the world, that wants to be helpful and needed, for our efforts to matter, for our lives to be meaningful. Sometimes, the best of intentions can get buried under the pressures of life that we all face: busy schedules, providing for our families, being productive in our chosen professions—but, it is there. It feels good to do good. As we enjoy this time of harvest, of celebrating the recent start of a new year, I hope you will join the movement that is this year’s Tulsa Jewish United Fund Annual Campaign—Do good everywhere. From anywhere. Giving through Campaign is your chance to ignite that spark and feel its glow. From feeding hungry families here in Tulsa to sending our Jewish youth on life changing trips to Israel; from making our community center a home, filled with laughter and enlightenment to providing food and medicine to Jews in impoverished countries and helping respond wherever disaster strikes—your gift is one very important piece of a larger collective effort. Through that effort, your reach is extended. Your single good intention touches lives in our community, in Israel, and in 70 countries around the world. You may never meet the people who benefit from this tzedakah, but when you give through Campaign, know that no matter what else you are doing with your time, you are also changing lives. You are fulfilling a promise and setting an example for future generations. We all have something to give. Be it time, treasure, or talent, you are needed. You can be helpful. 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