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By David M. ShribmanJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

At this hard moment in

America’s passage – an unarmed man killed in a police choke-hold in Minneapolis, another killed by police in Atlanta, pro-testers in the streets, enduring issues about race and justice in the air – we might pose a simple question for ourselves:

WWAJHD?Truly, what would Abraham

Joshua Heschel, the great Jewish theologian, philosopher and civil rights activist, do?

Rabbi Heschel, unforgetta-bly captured in photographs marching beside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in March 1965, died almost a half century ago. But his commit-ment to justice and his applica-tion of the values of the Jewish people to the struggle for black equality remain a beacon – an eternal light, you might say – in the darkness of American race relations. Unable to have a conversation with the rabbi himself, I dialed up his daugh-ter, Susannah Heschel.

“My father would be horrified not only by the murder of George Floyd but also by the murder of so many other black people,” she told me. “It would bring him back to his own life in Nazi Germany and what happened to his family. When I was grow-ing up, he would always tell me that poverty meant there was a system in place to keep you without money, and he would talk about it in personal terms

because we lived at the edge of Harlem, and that powered his struggle against racism.”

Rabbi Heschel crossed that bridge with King and the other activists of the civil rights era. Now all of us, in the weeks after the death of George Floyd, are crossing another bridge, into a new era and a new phase of the civil rights struggle.

Let’s listen again to Rabbi Heschel’s daughter, a profes-

sor of religion at Dartmouth College and keeper of that eter-nal flame of her father’s faith and fortitude:

“And he would be very glad to see such a broad coalition marching right now, all over the country, happy to see so many Americans – so many Jews – supporting their black neighbors. But he would be outraged that blacks were dying of COVID-19 at rates far greater

than whites. He would be ask-ing us to confront what white supremacy was, and he would say that we were called upon not only to protest but also to heal and to hope. That is some-thing that my father would offer.”

Indeed, this is a moment to heal and to hope.

The healing will take a while. The hope is beginning to sprout, with particular determi-

nation among Jews, who have discovered with recent events that while they may be liber-ated from servitude in ancient times and more recently in Soviet Russia, they are not free from fear in modern America – fear fortified in my Squirrel Hill neighborhood in Pittsburgh.

“There’s so much work that needs to be done to eliminate hate from our words and our deeds,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who watched 11 of his Tree of Life congregants be killed only three blocks from my Pittsburgh home in 2018, told me the other day. “It is impera-tive to listen. To me this period speaks for the need for unity and common purpose.”

This June moment prompts an approach reminiscent of – if you will permit an incongruous image in a Jewish newspaper – the profile of Janus, the ancient Roman god of beginnings who is famous in mythology for hav-ing simultaneously looked in two directions. For Jews at this juncture, one of those direc-tions is outward and one is inward.

First, the inward.Former Senator Joseph I.

Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who shattered the stained-glass window when he was the party’s 2000 vice-presidential nominee, believes it is time for great introspection among Jews.

“Everybody should be think-ing deeply about this,’’ he said in a conversation this week. “But to me, fundamental to being

CROSSING THE BRIDGE TO HOPE AND HEALING

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (center) with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Virginia. “My father would be horrified not only by the murder of George Floyd but also by the murder of so many other black people,” said Heschel’s daughter, Susannah Heschel.

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By Robin WashingtonJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

Have you seen this: “The Jewish Federations of North America,” the orga-nization said in a statement, “is out-raged and sickened by the violence of the Minneapolis police officers that led to the death of George Floyd.

“We pledge to our brothers and sis-ters in the black community – and all communities of color – to work together to reverse the systemic racism embed-ded within our country’s institutions and society in general.”

A similar promise comes from the National Council of Jewish Women:

“Through legislative reform, local activism, and by educating NCJW advo-cates, we will make sure each individual we engage helps end the toxic culture of racism that permeates our country.”

And so too for the Orthodox Union, Hadassah, the American Jewish Committee and dozens of other national and international Jewish organizations, in a sentiment best expressed by the Anti-Defamation League, writing “In short, systemic injustice and inequality calls for systemic change. Now.”

Yet not a single one of those organiza-tions has made a serious effort to fully empower African-American Jews within the Jewish community. And not a single one has a Black Jew on its board of direc-tors. Nor do 48 out of the 51 member groups in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The only two that do are the American Sephardi Federation (which by definition is inclusive of Jews of African descent) and the Union for Reform Judaism, which has a single Black Jewish member among its massive board of more than 250.

In real numbers, the combined board membership of all Conference groups comes to more than 2,000. That puts the Black Jewish representation at .2 percent; a fraction of even the lowest estimate of the population of African American Jews – 2 percent, promulgated by those demographers who seem particularly bent on lowering the count to diminish our influence and importance.

The boards contain a smattering of other Jews of Color – and that’s utilizing a broad definition of the term to include a wide range of Hispanic, Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jews, such as those from Iran, who may not even consider

themselves of color. Again, out of more than 2,000 board members, they com-prise 48 (including 18 from the Sephardi Federation), or 2.4 percent, again, wholly incongruent with the low-ball estimates of 4 percent by even the most skeptical demographers.

How do I know all this? Because I count-

ed them, aided by a numbers-crunching assistant, in a data analysis sideline to my journalistic work. The techniques and methods used were honed in previously contracted work examining the racial, ethnic and gender makeup of boards of public companies and top private con-

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By Bette KevaJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT SWAMPSCOTT – Ellen Levine

of Swampscott felt she “had to do something” in response to the protests that have roiled the nation and Greater Boston since George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25.

So, in a town that is less than 1 percent African-American, Levine mounted something of a campaign. She ordered 90 ‘Black Lives Matter’ lawn signs for local residents. You might say they flew off the shelves after she mentioned it on the Swampscott 01907 Facebook page.

“People are coming to pick them up … one person

bought 10 signs to distribute,” said Levine, who grew up in Maryland, attended Brandeis and moved to the North Shore more than 30 years ago. “When I put the order in for 90, I had no idea if they would sell. I’m order-ing 90 more.” She is selling the signs for $11 and donating the proceeds to the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy organi-zation specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. To date, she has distributed 140 signs.

Some people “stirred it up on the post saying, ‘Why not say all lives matter?’ But most people on the Swampscott Facebook page were respectful,” said Levine, who added that the majority of

people who requested the signs ranged in age between 20 and 40 – and represented a younger demographic in town.

Coming from a politically liberal family that campaigned for President John F. Kennedy, Levine remembers handing out anti-Vietnam War leaflets at the age of 11 at a Washington D.C. rally and stuffing envelopes as a volunteer for Students for a Democratic Society from age 11 to 13. Levine, who is 63, felt moved to act when the world started demanding something be done about police brutality this month.

A professional violinist, Levine says she’s passionate about “my Jewish community, Israel and teaching music.”

Levine and her husband, Joel, are Orthodox Jews.

“My family and the family I married into and most of the Orthodox Jews I know are either right-wing because they are pro-Israel or they are like me, bleeding-heart liberals. Modern Orthodox tends to be progres-sive. That doesn’t mean they are left or right. Usually, they are socially conscious. Among my Orthodox friends, people tend to be politically active. If there’s a rally in Boston about Israel or anti-Semitism, my friends are going to be there,” she said.

Levine says her childhood and upbringing, which focused on social justice, drew her to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I was raised to consid-er everybody as a member of humanity. Everyone is a worth-while person, there are no differ-ences. Why now? I was hearing people being interviewed saying ‘You can’t sit and do nothing.

If you are not helping to solve the problem, you are part of the problem.’ I took that to heart,” she said.

Levine hopes that the move-ment will push people to the ballot box and vote, which she

believes will advance political reform. “Police reform is going to come from our local repre-sentatives. I’m hoping there will be tremendous political reform,” she said.

When Levine attended Swampscott’s Black Lives Matter rally earlier this month opposite

Kings Beach, she took a knee alongside Swampscott Fire Chief Graham Archer and Swampscott Police Chief Ron Madigan. Along the with 300 silent protesters, they knelt for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to mark the amount of time George Floyd was held in a choke hold and pinned to the ground.

One of the organizers, Toyah Pass, 21, a black woman from Swampscott told the predomi-nantly white crowd, “Your silence during the racism in this country is what is allowing us to be killed. We’re being mur-dered,” she said as she called for unity. It is “a fight of all races against racism.”

Meanwhile, Levine is plan-ning “something else” for Swampscott that will include black and white residents. “I want to meet and brainstorm to see what we can do besides the signs,” said Levine.

Moved to act: Levine organizes distribution of ‘Black Lives Matter’ lawn signs

Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff“I felt I had to do something,” said Ellen Levine, who organized a drive to place 140 ‘Black Lives Matter’ signs on lawns in Swampscott.

Photo: Ellen LevineSwampscott Fire Captain Graham Archer and Police Chief Ron Madigan take a knee at a Black Lives Matter rally in Swampscott earlier this month.

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By Michelle HarrisJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

BEVERLY – Amid the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests, Beverly resi-dent Bari Michelman-Johnson posted a reading list on Facebook, recommending books to educate young children about racial equality. A teacher at both Chabad of Peabody and Temple Tiferet Shalom, she incorporates the concept of diversity into the curriculum, even for preschool-ers. “We have multicultural books, dolls, all kinds of things we teach them, not just on Black lives, but on all races and all religions,” she said.

For Michelman-Johnson, 51, the mat-ter is deeply personal. Her husband of 22 years, Wayne Johnson, 51, and her chil-dren, Halle, 20, and Cole, 18, are all part African-American.

Wayne Johnson grew up Catholic in Lynn. He officially converted to Judaism eight years ago after spending much of the past two decades practicing Judaism. The couple’s children, Halle and Cole, were raised to accept diversity and were pretty much oblivious to matters of race, said Johnson. “They never really had to deal with the African-American side of my family,” he said. “All my kids have ever known is the white side.”

When Halle and Cole were students at Epstein Hillel Academy, they were assigned a project tracing their family tree. “I showed them pictures and they were, like, ‘huh?,’ said Johnson. “And that’s when we had to explain that dad-dy’s half; this is my family. They never questioned it, but were like, ‘OK, that’s how it is.’ Although we never really had an issue, we had to address that yes, you guys are one-quarter African-American,” said Johnson.

However, Johnson remembers an earli-er time, when Cole had completely blonde

hair and very light skin. Sometimes he would get odd looks or be questioned while holding Cole’s hand or speaking to him in public. “One time, when Cole was canning [raising money outside a super-market] for his hockey team, I told him to stop standing around and do his job. A white woman said something along the lines of ‘Who do you think you are, boss-ing him around?’” he recalls. “She just saw the color of his skin and me asking a white child to do his job.”

When alone, Johnson has often encountered subtle acts of racism. He describes being followed by salespeople when visiting high-end stores, such as

jewelers and car dealerships. “I can tell when you go into a store and people think you don’t necessarily belong there. I have definitely been watched,” he said.

There have definitely been times when he alters his behavior to make others feel more comfortable. He describes attend-ing a recent breakfast meeting in Boston to honor female business leaders with his petite, white female boss.

“A new female executive of one of my accounts was there and I wanted to meet her,” said Johnson, an account direc-tor with CenturyLink of Woburn. “My boss suggested I run across the room to introduce myself. I had to explain to

her that a six-foot, 230-pound Black guy running through a room to approach a white woman wouldn’t make it two tables before somebody tackled me.

“I know it’s wrong that I have to censor myself, but having grown up doing that, it’s just second nature now,” he said. “It’s just knowing that that’s the reality I live in. When I was younger, I was more angry about it, but now I’m more accepting of it.”

The couple supports the recent pro-tests, but don’t believe they should ever get violent. “When they turn to riots and looting, that’s a bunch of selfish people doing it for themselves and destroying what people are trying to say peacefully,” said Johnson.

“Black people have been considered second-class citizens in this country since the time they were brought over, regardless of how smart they are and what level they achieve or what they’re capable of doing. The only time they’re looked at highly is when they get paid to play a sport or paid to be actors or musi-cians.”

Yet Johnson feels hopeful. “For the first time in my lifetime, the protests remind me of the early 1960s,” he said. “You’re seeing it more widespread, hap-pening at the same time nationally, and you have high-level visibility from politi-cians. High-ranking individuals are pay-ing attention and CEOs of companies are talking about it.”

Johnson mentioned a recent email to employees from his company’s chief executive officer. He wrote that there’s a difference between saying “I’m not rac-ist” and being anti-racism. “You can say ‘I’m not racist,’ and that’s great, but when you say you’re anti-racism, you’re taking it to a whole new level. That’s when you’re trying to do what’s best for everybody and fix the system.”

Beverly family hopes protests can challenge racism

Wayne Johnson, Cole Johnson, Bari Michelman-Johnson and Halle Johnson celebrate Cole’s graduation from Beverly High School.

By Rich TenorioJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

BROOKLINE – When African-American clergy members held a memorial service for George Floyd on Sunday, June 7, the participants included Rav Tiferet Berenbaum, director of congre-gational learning at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline.

Wearing a mask, Berenbaum, who is an African-American Jew, gave a teaching based on Leviticus 19:16, which the web-site Sefaria translates as, “Do not deal basely with your country-men. Do not profit by the blood of your fellow: I am the Lord.”

The service was held fol-lowing the death of Floyd, an African-American man. Floyd died after his neck was pinned to the ground by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

“My first thought was, ‘Oh, another black man was mur-dered,’” Berenbaum told The Jewish Journal about learning of Floyd’s death. “It was no sur-prise. I’m at the point where I have to numb myself to it. It hurts all the time.”

The deaths have come with tragically increasing frequency. In Georgia, Ahmaud Arbery died after being confronted while jogging by a white father and son. In Kentucky, Breonna Taylor

was fatally shot by police dur-ing an unannounced nighttime search. Then there was Floyd’s death at the end of last month. Berenbaum said that any of

them could have been herself or someone in her family.

Yet, she said, what has been unexpected is the protests that have occurred nationwide since Floyd’s death, including in Boston.

“Like those [that happened] before, they had video [of Floyd’s death] and nothing happened, so this was an unusual and wel-come surprise,” Berenbaum said of the protests.

Citing concerns about her family, Berenbaum has not gone to the protests. “I have a young daughter,” she explained. “Being in a multiracial marriage, I have to keep myself safe for her sake. I need to teach her about her black heritage, give her pride in her African-American identity.”

She did go to the interfaith clergy event, which was held at the Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain.

“It was very, very powerful,” she said. “For me, it was my first time in a room of all-black clergy. It felt very healing. All of us were from different faith traditions per se, but we all still worship one God, however we call our God. We took a moment to stand up and speak out. We have to make God’s will known in the world – the will of justice, righteousness, whatever way

[it’s conveyed] in the Torah, the Koran, the Christian scriptures ... I think I’m going to take that ruach, that energy, and hold it close.”

A Boston Jew who is also in a multiracial marriage, Tali Puterman, decided to go to a protest in Boston the previous Sunday. A social justice educa-tor and community organiz-er at Temple Israel in Boston, Puterman is white and grew up in South Africa in the post-apart-heid years, the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor. Her spouse, Jessica Puterman, is a biracial Jew, with one side of her family descended from Eastern European Jews and one side of her family descended from African-American slaves.

On the last Sunday in May, the Putermans went to a pro-test in Boston, marching from Roxbury to Government Center.

“It felt really, really important to go,” Tali Puterman said. “My wife is a person of color. She’s biracial. She has a black father and brothers.”

“As soon as I got there, I knew it was the right decision,” she added. “It was very powerful and moving, a group of people com-ing together against hatred, vio-lence, racism.”

Puterman estimated that the crowd was predominantly African-American but that white participants were appreciated, including by a woman on the sidewalk who thanked white people for being there.

“It was scary for everyone out and about during a pandem-ic,” Puterman said, adding that COVID-19 “hits black people harder.”

“Almost everybody was in masks, including us,” Puterman said. “Water, sanitizer and water bottles were very, very readily available. It was a well-organized protest.”

She said that “it was possible to kind of socially distance on really large, wide-open streets,” although it was harder in the middle of the street than on the edges.

“It felt like one could still be really mindful, be safe, in a pan-demic while being in a protest,” Puterman said.

The marchers stopped at mul-tiple health care centers to cheer on front-line medical staff work-

ing on the coronavirus response, according to Puterman.

“There was a lot of love to the health care professionals, and a lot of love [from] health care professionals back to the protes-tors,” Puterman said. She also said that that there was no ani-mosity from police toward pro-testors, and no animosity from protestors to police.

However, after Puterman left the protest and got back home, she saw images of looting and violence reported from the scene.

“It was very hard to think it had anything to do with the pro-test I was part of, any of the peo-ple,” she said. “I do not know, I do not have answers, about who was leading the looting … It’s hard to think it was connected at all. I went to a very pow-erful, well-organized, peaceful [protest] that I was proud to be part of.”

On the Shabbat evening after the first protest in Boston, Temple Israel honored lives lost to racist violence and to COVID-19 with a Kabbalat Shabbat of Mourning and Healing. That Sunday, local African-American clergy members held the memo-rial service for Floyd.

When Rabbi Berenbaum of Temple Beth Zion was asked about how fairly the media are covering the protests, she said that it depends upon the media one is consuming. “Certain media outlets are definitely reporting the truth about what’s happening, with a balanced evaluation. Some are not,” she said. “It’s up to the individual to consume balanced informa-tion – not make assumptions based on hearing one thing, but sort of understand all sides, to challenge themselves, find out what’s really happening.”

Berenbaum wonders whether the protests represent American teshuva or tikkun or a mix of both.

“Coming off the coronavirus pandemic, we see things are just not fair,” she said. “I continue to be grateful to be part of the Jewish community at Temple Beth Zion. Even before recent events, we have been asking what’s our role as Jews in the fight for racial justice. I’m feel-ing hopeful. God willing, we will soon see Moshiach.”

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Black rabbi on George Floyd’s death: ‘It was no surprise’

Courtesy Tiferet BerenbaumRav Tiferet Berenbaum is the director of congregational learning at Temple Beth Zion in Brookline.

Courtesy Tali PutermanJessica Puterman and her wife Tali Puterman attend a protest honor-ing the memory of George Floyd in Boston on Sunday, May 31.

By Bette KevaJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

SWAMPSCOTT – What’s it like to manage a supermarket in a pandemic?

No one in this area knows bet-ter than Andew Ziner, who runs the Stop & Shop in Swampscott. Ziner, who is Jewish and grew up in Lynnfield, has worked in grocery stores for 38 years. He’s seen a lot during those decades, but he never envisioned being on the front lines of serving a panicked public in the middle of a health crisis.

Over the last few months, Ziner and his entire staff have worn masks all day, experienced a national shortage of toilet paper, dealt with stressed out workers and customers, trained everyone to keep their “social distance” of six feet apart, creat-ed one-way aisles, offered early morning senior citizen shop-ping hours, and trained custom-ers and workers about the new rules as they were being imple-mented. Neither Ziner nor most of us saw this coming. There was no time to ease into it.

“I’ve been through power failures, hurricane alerts, three feet of snow, but nothing like this,” said Ziner, who lives with his family in Boxford. “If there’s a second wave, I think Stop & Shop is ready.”

Ziner began his grocery store career at the Peabody Purity Supreme on Lowell Street in 1982. After Stop & Shop acquired the company in the early 1990s, Ziner stayed on. He eventually rose to manage Stop & Shops in Revere, Gloucester and Arlington before coming to Swampscott more than five years ago.

When he started in the busi-ness, the stores didn’t accept credit or debit cards, and were smaller and carried far fewer products. Now there are self-checkout aisles that allow cus-tomers to shop and bag groceries as they go. There’s also a delivery service offered to the customer’s cars after they’ve ordered online, and Peapod deliveries to homes.

But like most businesses, Ziner believes it comes down to how a company interacts with its customers.

During the worse part of the pandemic, when cases of COVID-19 were climbing every day, Ziner said he and his staff were there for customers. Wearing a mask and dealing with worried cus-tomers and workers was chal-lenging at times. “I never thought I would have to run a store wearing a mask 10 to 12 hours a day. It’s harder than you think. The associates were wonderful and for the most part, custom-ers were wonderful. But others took it out on associates. We had some associates struggle with the 1 percent. We offered them extra breaks and encouraged them to go outside for fresh air. Everyone was stressed,” he said.

Some customers needed to vent, said Ziner. “Okay, vent to me, but not to my employees. I can only make every effort. I can’t control everyone [such as when] a customer sees someone going down an aisle the wrong way.”

Ziner feels Stop & Shop got ahead of implementing personal protection equipment by install-ing Plexiglas barriers between cashiers and the public in the checkout aisles, pharmacy, deli, seafood, meat and customer service areas; marking off six-foot distancing; and providing masks to all employees before it was recommended by Governor Charlie Baker. The store also takes temperature scans of all employees before starting work to comply with the town’s man-date.

“It’s not our role to train the public to use social distancing, wear masks and stand behind the Plexiglas. Some people came in not knowing and we had to say, ‘You are required to wear a mask.’ That was hard for some cashiers,” he said.

Ziner believes that many of these changes will remain in place post-COVID, “including social distancing, enhanced cleaning and special hours for seniors and those who are immunocompromised.”

The most challenging part of his job is “the workforce,” said Ziner. Although the store isn’t open 24 hours, third-shift employees are inside restocking shelves. The millennial work-force, said Ziner, has a “different work ethic because now there are so many options for them.

How do you attract and keep them? How do you change your leadership and management style to accommodate different [ages]? Work in a supermarket is non-stop. It’s one of the busiest industries. Would you rather do this or fold clothes at Macy’s?

Asked what was the most unusual item a customer has ever requested, Ziner answered, “A whole pig. It was for a spit for a large pig roast for a Greek family in Peabody.”

Another esoteric request was for freshwater fish so a customer could make her own gefilte fish for Passover.

On a recent morning, Ziner stood in the kosher aisle – one of the largest kosher aisles at a supermarket north of Boston – and made sure every item was neatly in place before posing for a photo. Soon he was off to another aisle to hold another conversation, and perhaps deal with another hourly challenge, and another solution.

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Lessons from the pandemic front line: Reassure customers, stay safe and keep the shelves stocked

Photo: Steven A. Rosenberg/Journal Staff “I never thought I would have to run a store wearing a mask 10 to 12 hours a day,” said Andrew Ziner, who manages the Stop & Shop in Swampscott.

“I’ve been through power failures, hurricane alerts, three feet of snow, but

nothing like this” – Andrew Ziner

By Rabbi Marc Baker

Our world, our country, our communities and the streets of our city

have been both literally and metaphorically on fire. Like so many of you, I feel a combina-tion of outrage and pain at the killing of George Floyd and at the racial injustice that contin-ues to plague this country.

This and other acts of police brutality come as the COVID-19 pandemic has stoked the flames of this fire, exacerbating the systemic problems of social and economic inequity in this country. People of color and other minorities are dispropor-tionately affected by both the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus. While we are all in the same storm, we are surely not all in the same boat.

Earlier this month the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, along with 130 national Jewish groups, called for sweeping reforms to our law enforce-ment and criminal justice systems, and our local Jewish Community Relations Council affirmed that we stand with the African American community.

I have been hesitant to speak this week because I have been having trouble finding the words. I have worried that another statement from me and CJP will feel hollow if not accompanied by clear action,

and I don’t think we know yet what that course of action should be. To be totally honest, I also feel a sense of trepidation about speaking from my own place of power and privilege.

That said, I keep com-ing back to a powerful Jewish text that explains the calling of Abraham, the first Jew and founder of ethical monotheism, through a parable: A person was walking when he saw a cas-tle in flames. He cried out with a question: “Does this castle have no owner?” At that point, the owner peered out from the castle and answered: “I am the owner.” So too, the rabbis tell us, Abraham saw a world in flames and asked: “Is anyone in charge of this world?” And

that is when God called to him: “Lech Lecha – Go forth.»

This text speaks powerfully to me at this moment for three reasons.

First and most obvious is the haunting image and metaphor of the flames. Our world is on fire, and it is so painful to watch.

Second is the fact that Abraham sees the burning cas-

tle. I wonder how many other people passed by the fire and didn’t even stop to notice, or chose to look away? Both empa-thy and activism begin with the ability and the willingness to see the suffering of others and the brokenness in our world.

Third is Abraham’s response. He does not rush to put the fire out, but rather asks a question. He knows there is a problem but does not presume to be able to solve it himself; instead, he responds with humility and with the realization that before doing anything he needs to understand more.

The fires of racism, discrimi-nation and socio-econom-ic inequity continue to burn in this country as they have throughout our history.

Our community needs to commit to seeing these prob-lems in new ways and to not turn away. We need to strive to see the experience and the pain of the Black community and all people of color. We need to recognize that our Jewish com-

munity includes people of all backgrounds. We particularly need to pay attention to the voices and experiences of Jews of color.

And we need to be humble enough to acknowledge that, while we must not turn away, we do not yet know how to put this fire out. We must find ways to act now, following the lead of people of color, for whom this is their lived experience. We need to commit to what promises to be a painful process of intro-spection, learning and deep curiosity about our own history and our relationship with race in America, and here in Boston.

While the path forward is not yet clear to me, I believe that if we are courageous enough to be in our brokenness together — to see, to ask, to learn and then to act — this is where the healing can begin.

Rabbi Marc Baker is the president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. This piece was written on June 4.

6 THE JEWISH JOURNAL – JEWISHJOURNAL.ORG – JUNE 18, 2020 EDITORIAL

JEWISH JOURNALSteven A. Rosenberg

PUBLISHER/EDITOR

For many Americans, the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer was a turning point. Soon after

his death, the video – where he was held in a chokehold for 8 minutes and 46 seconds by a white police officer – was posted on the Internet.

What did we see? We saw a man who didn’t have to die just because he was suspected of committing a nonviolent crime. We saw three police officers watching a fellow officer pin his knee to the neck of a man for over 8 minutes. We saw those same police officers standing around and watching Floyd die and not taking action and intervening.

As graphic and horrifying as Floyd’s death was, similar deaths at the hands of law enforcement have been prevalent in American cities over the years. Those deaths, and the scenes of police acting like bystanders and doing nothing while a man in their custody died face down in the street, was enough to light a nation and push people into the streets where they mostly held peaceful protests. Those peaceful protests were widely supported by Americans, and in a recent Monmouth University poll, 76 percent of Americans – including 71 percent of white

people – called racism and discrimination “a big problem” in the United States.

And those protests were not held just in big American cities, but across Greater Boston in communities such as Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Billerica, Brookline, Essex, Gloucester, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lexington, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Marblehead, Medford, Newton, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott.

Amid a pandemic, many Americans realized they could no longer stand by and witness systemic racism in this country. Our society needs to be compassionate and kind. And, as Jews, this is a clarion call to be part of a progressive movement. We cannot just stand by when our fellow Americans suffer discrimination.

The late Sonia Weitz, who survived numerous Nazi death camps and lost nearly all of her family in the Holocaust, spent much of her life in Peabody trying to explain that all people are equal and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. “Don’t be a bystander, be an upstander,” she’d often say when speaking to students.

At this moment, it is appropriate for us to listen to her wise counsel. It is time to take action, and not be a bystander.

We cannot afford to be bystanders

Our world is on fire

As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, to march is to pray with our feet. Throughout American history, the right to protest peacefully has been a hallmark of free expression.

In the past week, clergy of all faiths have joined in and supported protests happening in cities nationwide, spurred by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police. Like Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Dreasjon “Sean” Reed, and too many others to name, Mr. Floyd was a victim of the nation’s long history of brutal-ity against people of color, and particularly Black men. Protests are a just response to all-too-familiar anger, frustration, and pain.

I stand for the right to peace-ful protest and call on our nation’s law enforcement and elected officials not to inter-

fere with this bedrock First Amendment expression.

Rabbi Susan Abramson, Temple Shalom Emeth,

Burlington Rabbi Laura Abrasley,

Temple Shalom of NewtonRabbi Tom Alpert,

Temple Etz Chaim, Franklin Rabbi Sharon Anisfeld,

President of Hebrew College, Newton

Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, Congregation Shirat

HaYam, NantucketRabbi Cari Bricklin-Small,

Temple Shir Tikvah, WinchesterRabbi Caryn Broitman,

Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center

Rabbi Andrea Cohen Kiener, Temple Israel, Greenfield

Rabbi Jodie Gordon, Hevreh of Southern BerkshireRabbi Andrea Gouze, Temple

Beth Emunah, Easton

Rabbi Neil Hirsch, Hevreh of Southern Berkshire

Rabbi Sandi Intraub, Beth El Temple Center, Belmont

Rabbi Eliana Jacobowitz, Temple B’nai Brith of Somerville

Rabbi Ira Korinow, Temple Israel, Portsmouth, NH

Rabbi Karen Landy, Havurat Shalom, Andover

Rabbi Adam Lavitt, Orchard Cove, Hebrew

SeniorLife, CantonRabbi Jessica Lowenthal,

Temple Beth Shalom of Melrose Rabbi Rachel Maimin,

Temple Isaiah, LexingtonRabbi Bernard H Mehlman,

Temple Israel, BostonRabbi David Meyer,

Temple Emanu-El, MarbleheadRabbi Barbara Penzner,

Temple Hillel B’nai Torah, Boston

Rabbi Talya Weisbard Shalem, Medford

Jewish clergy endorse right to peacefully protestLETTERS

“We need to strive to see the experience and the pain of the Black community and all people of color,” writes CJP President Marc Baker.

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By Michael Widlanski

JERUSALEM – Amid rising political protest over lockdowns, Israel is strug-gling to get back to work, as some health officials warn of a possible “second wave” of COVID-19 after reports of about 200 people contracting the virus.

But the fig-ures belie a really mixed message, because the total death rate – 302 – has increased by one in the last

week, and the number of serious cases requiring ventilators has also not moved.

“The numbers are rising again,” asserted Dr. Sigal Sidletzki of the Health Ministry, “but I have to admit we do not completely understand the phenom-enon.” She has championed a hard-line approach, supported by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that is now under attack by several cabinet ministers.

Many Israelis now wear masks infre-quently, especially in Tel Aviv – evidence of “virus fatigue.” One of the ironies is that Haredi communities, slow to adhere to regulations and hard-hit by virus casu-alties, are now sticking to mask-wearing, almost religiously. On a deeper level, there is a sense that government health edicts have been inconsistent and often draconian, while government aid has been fitful and ineffective.

Most Israelis agree that early social distancing, border closing and lockdowns were justified, keeping a low death rate (3 per 100,000 population, versus 10 or 20 times that rate in the U.S. and Britain). Doctors are not sure but they believe that early action and popular self-discipline,

together with a relatively young popula-tion and relatively warm weather, may have all combined with the grace of God to produce fewer deaths.

Now, however, the population wants to move on.

The country has gotten so healthy that some hospitals have closed their COVID-19 treatment wards, but there has been a small spike of new cases – very mild cases – reported in some schools in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, spurring some officials to insist that most schools stay closed for the foreseeable future, angering many parents who cannot go to work if they have to watch their children at home. School will likely close in early July – but not because of the coronavirus but due to ongoing turf fights with teacher unions. Still, the parents are not alone in the their frustration.

“I don’t understand why there can be weddings with 250 people, but theaters

have to remain closed,” asserted a lead-ing theater manager as he led a sit-down on a highway entrance to Jerusalem last week.

Independent small-business owners have actually formed their own new politi-cal party to protest the Finance Ministry’s apparent insensitivity to their plight, call-ing themselves Ha-Shulmanim, or The Shulmans, a reference to an Israeli joke about a guy named Shulman who always gets stuck paying the bill. Early polls show the party could easily garner five to six Knesset seats, and politicians are beginning to take them seriously.

Israel’s economy has been the envy of the world (including OECD powerhouses like the U.S. and Germany) with high growth and low unemployment, and the shekel has held its own against foreign currencies. However, in the first quar-ter of the year, after the virus struck, unemployment soared 7 percent. Some

officials say that as many as one in four Israelis are out of work as employers have furloughed staffs on unpaid leave.

The national airline, El Al, which was suffering before the health crisis, may be forced to close its doors or totally restruc-ture as part of a government bailout. Most of its 6,500 employees are at home and unpaid, and there does not seem much chance for change, as El Al oper-ates mostly as a freight mover.

Despite the lingering problems, there is a general sense of optimism and a real-ization that Israel has handled its affairs better than almost any other Western democracy, and this perception is rein-forced by immigration figures from the U.S. showing a doubling of monthly “Israel-ation” – immigration to Israel commonly known by the Hebrew word: Aliya.

In addition to new arrivals, there has already been a noted phenomenon of Israelis who want to repatriate.

“There is a strong sense that many Israelis living abroad want to come home,” immigration officials told the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon, adding that Israelis living on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. were shocked by the relatively poor government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This negative mood has deepened with violent distur-bances in many American cities.

Dr. Michael Widlanski is author of “Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat.” He was strategic affairs advisor in Israel ’s Ministry of Public Security, editing captured PLO documents. Earlier he advised Israeli negotiation teams at the Madrid and Washington talks in 1991-92.

A fearful but optimistic Israel wants to move on – carefully, very carefully

Israelis wear masks in downtown Jerusalem.

Letter From Jerusalem

By Rabbi Avi Weiss

The image will forev-er break our hearts: a Minneapolis police offi-

cer’s knee on George Floyd’s neck with fellow officers stand-ing by doing nothing – slowly, slowly extinguishing the breath of Mr. Floyd.

Compare that horrific scene of the ending of life to the image of God, breathing life into Adam, the first person. God does so to teach all of humankind the mandate to uplift and give life to others.

The murder of George Floyd was a desecration of this man-date. Forcing breath out when we should be breathing breath in.

The murder of a person is the murder of a person, but the murder of a person because of his or her skin color is much bigger. It is an affront to us all – the murder of the world. Had George Floyd been white, he’d be alive today. In his murder, we have all been diminished; we have all been murdered.

And now, there is anger everywhere directed at the police. In my long history of activism, I’ve met good officers, like at 9/11, when, as a clergy first responder, I witnessed first-hand our police at their best.

When speaking to these women and men about police bias against Blacks, they have often told me, “Look Rabbi, in every group, there are bad peo-ple” – good cops and bad cops. And in my life’s work as a rabbi-activist, I have seen both kinds.

But here it must be clearly

said: when your job involves life and death, there is no room for the bad cop. And the bad cops are still here.

They are still here because Amadou Diallo, the Guinean immigrant who was killed when shot by police 41 times, as they mistook his wallet for a gun – never got justice.

They are still here because Eric Garner, choked to death by a policeman – never got justice.

In each of these cases, and in countless others, the bar to convict the police was too high. This sent a message – you can commit this type of crime with impunity. It is imperative to put into place more oversight struc-tures to assure police account-ability.

But now there is hope. Seeing a rainbow of hundreds of thou-sands around the world – white, black, brown, yellow march for justice – there is hope. It is hope coupled with a responsibility. It is a responsibility for demon-strators to categorically reject those in their midst resorting to violence.

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi taught: using violence as a means of social action erodes the moral high ground of one’s cause, and, hence, the loss of public sup-port. Inevitably and tragically, it leads to victimizing others the way one has been victimized.

The slogan “Black Lives Matter” at first alarmed me because it is associated with an organization that espouses anti-Israel sentiments that I cat-egorically reject. But I have now come to understand that for

the vast, vast majority of dem-onstrators – the slogan “Black Lives Matter” (much like our clarion call of “Never Again”) stands apart from any particu-lar affiliation and goes beyond organizational boundaries.

With our Black brothers and sisters vulnerable to attack, we too call out “Black Lives Matter” – we are one with you in your pain, and will never be silent.

As George Floyd is buried, we ought all remember the Jobian cry: “Earth, do not cover my blood; continue to cry out for

justice.”That’s our task. Mr. Floyd’s

blood cries out from the ground. It cannot be covered. Blood will continue to cry out until justice is done.

The ultimate biblical sym-bol of freedom, redemp-tion and renewal is the shofar whose voice comes from the deep inner breath of the person blowing it.

In the spirit of the Divine mandate to give breath we should recall the last gasps of George Floyd, “I can’t breathe,”

and resolve, in his name, to live one of the most basic messages of the shofar – to usher in an era of justice, peace and life for all of humankind.

Rabbi Avi Weiss is the found-ing rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, Bronx, N.Y., and founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat rabbinical schools. He is a co-founder of the International Rabbinic Fellowship and long-time Jewish activist for Israel and human rights.

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By Rich TenorioJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

BOSTON – In the last moments of life for a COVID-19 patient at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the patient’s daughter was about to go to the hos-pital to say goodbye. Because of coronavirus restrictions, no other family members could be at the patient’s bedside. Nor could the hospital’s Jewish chaplain, Nancy Smith. Yet through virtual technology, Smith was able to help the fam-ily and the patient.

With the daughter and a nurse in the hospital room, two separate phone connec-tions were made – one with the patient’s father, and one with Smith, who has had to work remotely throughout the pan-demic. On the call, Smith recit-ed the Viduy prayer – tradition-ally said before a person dies –on behalf of the sick patient.

“It’s certainly very difficult, yet also very effective,” Smith told the Jewish Journal about providing spiritual care virtual-ly to patients and their families during the COVID-19 response.

Smith said nonverbal expressions and touch are crit-ical in the communication pro-cess – which is missing when a sick person cannot speak to someone in the same room. “A lot is constantly communi-cated through people’s faces,” she said. “The opportunity for touch – such as whether it would be appropriate to place one’s hand on someone’s shoulder, or hold someone’s hand – is no longer available.

It’s certainly a big difference.”Still, she is happy patients

still have the opportunity to speak to a chaplain. “Frankly, I’m glad something could be offered. I felt like I could be engaged for the patient, and particularly for their families, at a very, very difficult time.”

A chaplain at Beth Israel for 12 years, with over 35 years of experience as a clinical social worker, Smith is see-ing the pandemic test hospi-tal patients, their families and the staff in unimagined ways. Working remotely, she tries to help all of these diverse con-stituencies.

Her primary responsibility is to serve Jewish patients and their families at the hospital, as well as staff. She also provides spiritual care to patients of other faiths and to people who have no religious affiliation.

During the pandemic, she has assisted with Jewish cal-endar events such as Passover, when patients were able to receive Seder plates and rit-ual items. Yet she has also had to provide spiritual care to patients at the end of their lives, as well as to their families.

Smith remembers one couple who had contracted COVID-19. One died in the hospital, and the other recov-ered. “I’m having ongoing phone conversations with her,” Smith said of the latter, “in an effort to both be able to sup-port her through her grief and sort of being involved [in] pro-cessing both of their illnesses.”

She also remembers speak-ing with a family member of a very ill patient. As she recalled,

this family member was choos-ing a burial plot for their loved one at a cemetery and “really [wanted] to share some of the origin stories of their and the patient’s families.”

In general, family members tend to be the vast majority of Smith’s calls, she said, noting that many of her coronavirus patients have been quite ill, with some intubated and on a ventilator.

While Catholic priests are allowed to enter the rooms of COVID-19 patients, and offer the Sacrament of the Sick, or last rites, chaplains are not permitted to go into rooms with COVID-19 patients.

This barrier has caused a change in communication. “It’s a shift in thinking about how we can provide spiritu-al care in a meaningful way,” she said. “We’re trying to get to know patients and their families, understand their val-

ues, understand what holds meaning for them, particularly around end-of-life issues. We think about decision-making, goals of care … we ensure that patients’ and families’ values are fully respected and under-stood by the team.”

Yet there are also corona-virus patients at risk of dying without anyone to bear witness to their existence.

“Maybe we do not know their family members,” Smith explained. “If we have deter-mined it is important [for them] to have someone by their side, the staff makes every effort to ensure it happens. Maybe it’s a physician, maybe a nurse.” This can happen when a patient is dying, or following their death, she said.

Smith and her fellow chap-lains also provide spiritual care for the medical professionals on the front lines, who must deal with illness and death on a constant basis.

“Certainly, the pandemic has had a deep impact on the front-line staff,” Smith said, adding that chaplains have marshaled resources ranging from inspirational teachings to music. Even a spiritual care Instagram account is regularly updated.

For all involved, there may be some comforting news: The number of COVID-19 cases at Beth Israel-Deaconess is “sig-nificantly down,” Smith said. “Certainly not [what it was] a couple of months ago. I think there is some sense – I would not say of returning to normal, but beginning to move in that direction.”

Coronavirus transforms hospital chaplain’s work, but not her mission

Nancy Smith

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Tamimi selected the target and accompanied the bomb-er to the Sbarro pizza shop on the corner of King George and Jaffa Streets. The pair dressed in Western attire, and the bomber, Izz Al-Din Al-Masri, ate a slice of pizza and then blew himself up in the restaurant. Tamimi, a broadcast journalist, returned to her job hours later in the West Bank and reported the bombing on Palestinian TV.

Tamimi was arrested by Israel weeks after the attack and sentenced to 16 life terms, but was released in the 2011 Israel-Hamas prisoner swap and moved to Jordan. She has since married and had chil-dren. She appears frequently in the media, and has expressed no remorse for her role in the deaths of innocent civilians.

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How did Youth to Israel [Y2I] change your perspective on your culture and heritage?

Judaism has shaped my values. I believe it is important to be a good person, and Israel is also very important to me. I’ve been connected to a larger community that shares the same values and traditions, which has made me feel more confident and accepted. Meeting people who have shared the same experiences that I have involving anti-Semitism has helped me gain confidence to stand up against hate towards our community.

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We’re definitely more open-minded and accepting of everyone’s differences. I feel as though our generation is much more liberal, for example towards things such as same-sex marriage and interfaith marriage. You are able to be a proud Jewish person regardless of how religiously invested you are. I personally place more emphasis on the culture and community, rather than the religious aspect, when I practice my Judaism.

Going to Israel completely changed how important being Jewish was to me. Before going to Israel, I never wanted to partake in events at my temple. I never felt connected to other Jewish people in my grade, but when I went on Y2I and met other Jewish teens, it completely changed my perspective. Judaism became more important to me and I became proud to identify as Jewish. It was definitely an eye-opening experience. After going to Israel, I began to really understand the connection between Judaism and Israel, and felt a spiritual connection to the land.

How do you experience Judaism on your college campus?

Salem State doesn’t have any Jewish organizations, and there aren’t any Jewish events happening on campus. I reached out to the former director of the Hillel and they told me that when the former head of the organization graduated from the university, nobody took it upon themselves to continue to lead it. It is a goal of mine to restart the Hillel on the Salem State campus, but at the same time I don’t know that many Jewish people at my school. I hope to see more Jewish representation and events at my school in the future.

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By Sam EggertJOURNAL CORRESPONDENT

BROOKLINE – A year from now, Maimonides senior and Brookline native Daniella Bessler will be taking the court for the Yeshiva University Maccabees after her gap year in Israel.

A 5-foot-7 point guard, Bessler has elite ball handling skills along with a quick first step and a steady jumper that made her a threat on a 11-3 Maimonides team that on aver-age outscored their opponents by 24.4 points her senior year. Her prowess on the basketball court drew attention from many college basketball programs, but her options were limited since she chooses to sit out on Friday nights and Saturdays for Shabbat.

Players with Bessler’s skills are rare in Division 4 high school girls’ basketball in the state. Maimonides head coach Garvey Salomon knew early on that Bessler was a different breed.

“She was aggressive and fear-less … one of the few players I had that could set up her shot,” he said.

Bessler, along with backcourt mate Tova Gelb, settled into roles as primary scorers early in their high school careers and main-tained those roles throughout, making Maimonides a highly competitive team. But it was during her senior year that she emerged as the true emotional leader for the M-Cats.

“She’s had a lot of virtuoso performances,” Salomon said. “Her speed and her ability to process and commit to some-thing is unlike most, if not all,

the players I’ve had in the past. “Her competitive nature is

her main superpower,” Salomon said. “Her standard for her play is really high, and if she doesn’t think she’s playing well she’s really tough on herself. In the past it was almost to a detri-ment. It wasn’t until last year or this year that she had to under-stand you’re not going get 30 points every game.”

Bessler, a five-year varsity

player, had a storied career for the M-Cats, culminating with 1,000-point junior and senior years.

The college circuit, however, came with roadblocks as some of the schools that were origi-nally looking at Bessler backed out because of her unwilling-ness to play on Shabbat.

“I have no hard feelings at all,” Bessler said. “I understand where they’re coming from. It’s

unfortunate but I’m not angry at them.

“The way I looked at it, if I was with a Division 3 school, it might as well be a school that can accommodate for my reli-gious beliefs and that’s Stern [Yeshiva’s women’s school],” she said. Yeshiva has worked with the NCAA and the Skyline Conference on all sports to adjust schedules that typically run on Shabbat. In addition, the NCAA has adjusted to accom-modate Orthodox players who wish to cover their hair if they are married.

Sitting out on Shabbat was not her choice at first. “I didn’t always feel so connected to that decision, I just knew it was what my family did,” Bessler said regarding her perspective when she was younger. Her father Barry, a prosthodontist, and her mother Michal, the princi-pal of Maimonides Elementary School, made it a family tradi-tion when she was young.

As she got older, however, Bessler gained a better under-standing and started to take pride in her religion. “Basketball isn’t my life,” she said. “Religion is going to be with me for my entire life. I want to look back and know that I made the right

decision in the long run. It’s a moral code for me, it’s a path of life.”

As for what she does on Shabbat, in addition to spend-ing time with family and going to shul, Bessler enjoys playing pick-up sports – including bas-ketball – with friends.

Before attending college, Bessler is taking her gap year in Israel to study the Talmud in Jerusalem. She plans on playing a lot of basketball and training for the upcoming season.

Bessler was slated to play AAU basketball this spring, but the season was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. She also was planning on playing for an Israeli basketball team next year, but that season also was can-celed by the coronavirus.

Maimonides star puts Judaism over basketball in making her college choice

Daniella Bessler has been an elite player for Maimonides.

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By Steven A. RosenbergJOURNAL STAFF

LYNN – To mark its 100th year, the Pride of Lynn Ceme­tery is investing $100,000 to renovate its chapel.

The renovation is the first major restoration of the one­room, 1,100­square­foot chapel that has been used sparingly in recent years. “We felt that there was a greater need for the com­munity to utilize this building,” said Alan Gilbert, who serves as president of the cemetery’s nonprofit board.

The one­story brick struc­ture was built in stages in the 1930s and 1940s, according to Bruce Greenwald, the project’s architect. The chapel, which was used before the high holi­days as a welcoming center for people visiting their loved ones’ graves, is expected to be fully renovated by the fall. The room, which has a vaulted ceiling, will be fully handicapped accessible and will feature LED lighting and a newly constructed unisex bathroom. In addition, a new roof will be added, along with a new heating and air­condition­

ing system. Visitors will be able to see 12 stained­glass windows that were previously boarded up. Once completed, the chapel will host funeral services and gatherings to mark unveilings.

“It will be beautiful. I see it as a resource for the commu­nity,” explained James Yaffe, the board’s treasurer. “A lot of fami­lies have indicated that rather than having the service at a funeral home or at a temple, they’d prefer to have it at the cemetery. And now they’ll have the option to do it.”

One hundred years ago, Eastern European Jews who set down roots in Lynn decided to build a cemetery and chose a plot of land near Wyoma Square. About 6,000 people are buried on the property, and an average of 50 to 75 funerals are held at Pride of Lynn each year. With just two­thirds of the seven­acre property being used, the cemetery has room for another 2,000 plots, Gilbert said.

In recent years, the ceme­tery has made improvements and policy changes. It took over an adjacent cemetery, Chevra

Pride of Lynn Cemetery brings new life to its chapel

Pride of Lynn Cemetery was established in 1920 to serve the Jewish communities of the North Shore.

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Manuel S. “Manny” Golov, 70, of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Nantucket, formerly of Swampscott and Boston, died suddenly on June 2, 2020 in Bishopville, S.C. He was the beloved husband of Karen (Starr) Golov and, as high school sweet-hearts, they shared 51 years of marriage.

Manny followed his fam-ily legacy and served families at Stanetsky Memorial Chapels in Brookline, Canton, and Salem, and later at Riverside-Stanetsky in Delray Beach, Fla. Manny touched many lives in his life-long career in funeral service and was known for his sense of humor and ability to tell a story like no other.

Manny is survived by his dear wife Karen; his beloved

son Brett and his wife Kristen of West Palm Beach, Fla.; lov-ing brothers James Golov and his wife Amy of Wayland, and

Peter Golov and Amy Casper of Newton; loving sister Suzanne LeVine of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and the late Marjorie Golov. Other family members include his beloved sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Wendy and Jeff Baker of Brookline, and many nieces and nephews.

Donations in Manny’s memo-ry may be made to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Michael Weinblatt Fund, Development Office, 116 Huntington Ave., Boston MA 02116, or Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA 02284.

Arrangements were handled by Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, Brookline. For more information, to view the service, or to register in the online guestbook, visit stanetskybrookline.com.

Manuel S. “Manny” Golov, 70, of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Nantucket, formerly of Swampscott and Boston

Irving “Hank” Greenberg, a lifelong resident of Revere, passed on April 30, 2020.

He was the devoted husband of 68 years to Nancy (Trager) Greenberg. Devoted father of the late Steven Greenberg. Also survived by his daughter Shirlee McDaniel. Loving son of the late Samuel Greenberg and Anna (Gates) Greenberg. Dear brother of the late Eva Richmond. Loving grandfather of Eric Greenberg.

Proud United States Marine Corps Veteran. Member of the “Odd Fellows” Noble Grand Kearsarge Lodge #217-Swampscott. Past presi-

dent of Temple B’Nai Israel, Revere. Former Commissioner of Revere Housing Authority and former Treasurer for 20 years. Lover of Aruba, calling it his “Second home.”

Private graveside services will be held due to the COVID-19 crisis. Interment will be held in the B’Nai Israel Beechmont Cemetery, Everett.

Contributions in Hank’s memory may be made to the charity of one’s choice. Arrangements were handled by Torf Funeral Service, Chelsea. Visit torffuneralservice.com for an online guestbook.

Irving “Hank” Greenberg, of Revere

Linda Lerner passed away at the age of 81 on June 9, 2020, after a lengthy illness. She had a zest for life and managed to get the best out of every day, and shared her enthusiasm and suc-cesses with all of those around her. Joseph Lerner, her husband of 29 years, died in 1988. Her mother and father Hyman and Rose Rutstein and her sister Carolyn predeceased her.

Linda will be long remem-bered for her kindness and generosity by her three chil-dren and their spouses: Michael and Laurie Lerner, Richard and Jennifer Lerner, and Heidi and Charles Lauhon. She also leaves seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild: Joseph, Samantha, Sydney, Harry, Haley, Jack, Annabelle, and Jordan, as well as her younger sister and brother-in-law Sara and Marc Winer.

Private family services have

been held in New York. Donations in Linda’s memory can be made to the Honoring our History–Brandeis National Committee–MS 122, 415 South St., Waltham, MA 02453.

Linda Lerner, 81

Our sister and lifelong Salem resident Patti (Patricia) Marcus passed away on March 24, 2020, of Lymphoma.

She survived her sister Sheila Zucker and her husband Carl, and her brother Al Marcus and his wife Barbara, both origi-nally of Salem, but for 50 or so years of Houston, Texas; her cherished nephews Matt, Todd, and Brad; and great-nieces and great-nephew Nicole, Megan, and Grant Zucker. One of Patti’s regrets was never to have met the newest member of our fam-ily, her thirteen-month-old great-niece Louise Naomi.

Patti retired after 35 years at M.I.T. She loved her retirement, cats (especially her beloved Sam), reading mysteries, din-

ing, and spending time with cherished lifelong friends.

Patti loved Salem and the North Shore. She was a frequent visitor to Houston, but Salem always called her home, where she felt most complete.

When Patti began to decline, it was too late for any family to be with her. But we all talked to her when she felt up to con-versation, Patti always asking about us, not wanting to dwell on herself. She was loved and she is missed.

There will be a memorial get-together at the Willows on June 20 a 10 a.m., at the Music Shell, celebrating her life. We’d love it if friends shared this time and their memories with us.

Patti (Patricia) Marcus, of Salem

On May 10, 2020, Arnold “Arnie” Sokol passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family.

Cherished husband of Judie. Adored father of Robert, Kim, Lori and Paul, Lynne and Gary, and Michelle. Treasured Papa to Erica, Ryan, Cody, Sofia, Colton, Eli, Rafi, Shoshana, Lena, Micah, Laila, and Shevi.

Burial was held at Temple Beth Sholom Cemetery in Sarasota, Fla., on May 11.

Arnie requested that dona-tions go to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Memphis, TN 38105, or to Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 1 Blossom St., Boston, MA 02114.

Arnold “Arnie” Sokol

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NOTICESCASTLE, Cynthia (Gordon) – late of Melrose, formerly of Chelsea. Died on May 30, 2020. Wife of the late Eugene Lawrence Castle. Mother of Arlene Davis and her husband Andy of Malden, Stuart Castle and his wife Carol of Nashua, N.H., Harold Castle of Nashua, N.H., and Leona Chodosh and her husband Hank of Danbury, Conn. Daughter of the late Abraham and Fannie (Cutler) Gordon. Sister of Ina Shane of Fla., Harold Gordon of Ariz., and the late Sam, Walter, and Sidney Gordon. Grandmother of Brian Castle and his wife Diane, Derek Davis, Daniel Davis, Rachel Castle and her fiancé Joshua Casey, Natalie Orphanos, Melanie Schoffelmeer and her hus-band Kyle, Jeffrey Castle and his wife Colleen, and Nicole Castle-Jamal and her hus-band Dr. Joseph Jamal. Great-grandmother of Jordon Castle, Keagan, Nolan, Vivienne, Juliana, and Everett. (Torf)

GROSSMAN, Eileen B., 87 – late of Waltham, formerly of Chelsea. Died on June 2, 2020. Daughter of the late Bella and Harry Grossman. Sister of Carole and her husband Stephen Volman. Aunt of Josef and his wife Dana Volman, and David and his wife Melissa Volman; and great-aunt of Justin, Adam, Skylar, and Dylan. (Goldman)

LARKIN, Elaine (Shreider), 93 – late of Newburyport, formerly of Marblehead. Died on June 8 2020. Wife of the late Morris Larkin. Mother of Wendy (Larkin) Palombo and her hus-band Dr. Ralph Palombo of Newbury, Donna (Larkin) Gould and her husband Gerald Gould of Del Ray, Fla., and the late Richard Larkin. Grandmother of Dr. Adam Palombo and his wife Pamela Palombo, Randy Gould and his partner Dr. Laura Tepper, Brecht Palombo and his wife Rebecca Palombo, and Bryan Palombo. Great-grandmother of Mia, Liliana, Madeleine, Vince and Enzo Palombo, as well Corey and Zachary Gould. (Stanetsky-Hymanson)

RICE, Geraldine “Gerry” R., 99 – late of Revere, for-merly of Winthrop. Died on May 30, 2020. Wife of the late Nathaniel W. Rice. Mother of Ellen J. Burnett (Paul O’Neil) and Lishie Nankervis (Bill). Cherished “TuTu” of the late Nathaniel Burnett, Bryce Nankervis (Jennifer), and Neysa Nankervis (Tom Callan). Great-grandmother of Tanner and Cody Nankervis. Aunt and great-aunt of Doreen Godes and Robert Fine, Scott Godes (Debbie), Fiona and Sierra, Amy Godes Gibson (Mark), and Lexi Gibson. (Stanetsky-Hymanson)

Howard J. Nathan, age 78, of Peabody, formerly of Revere, passed peacefully on May 29, 2020.

A graduate of Revere High School, Parsons College, and UC Berkeley, Howard was co-founder of the investment firm Nathan & Lewis Securities in New York City.

Howard was predeceased by his parents Donald and Ida of Revere, and his sister Jane Brown of Calif. He leaves his brother Bob and his wife Robyn of Peabody, his children Martin and his wife Rina of Calif., his soon-to-be-granddaughter Tala Sofia Nathan, his daughter Tina Kalil and her husband Paul of Ill., his grandsons Jack, Charlie, and Sam of Ill., stepson Dario Muneton, his wife Pilar, and grandchildren Gabriella and Jacob of Conn., his niece Dallas Kacev and nephews Zachary Brown, and Shad and Ben Nathan. He also leaves his com-panion of many years, Rachael Breault, and his friend and for-mer wife, Nelly Nathan.

Howard enjoyed ballroom

dancing, horseback riding, singing, and country music. He searched across the country, but could not find a better roast beef sandwich than the one he

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Sandra (Zetlen) Singer, 82, died peacefully at Sawtelle Family Hospice in Reading on June 2, 2020, after a brief battle with leukemia.

Sandy was born in Cambridge to Lillian and Alan Zetlen and grew up in Salem. She met the love of her life, Marty Singer, from Peabody, and spent 54 years in a wonderful loving mar-riage. Sandy and Marty raised their three children in Beverly and moved to Brooksby Village in Peabody in 2005. Marty prede-ceased Sandy in 2009.

For her whole life, Sandy was an avid and eager volun-teer. Among the organizations that benefited from her time and skills were North Beverly Elementary School PTA, Temple B’Nai Abraham, and the Beverly Hospital Aid Association. Most recently, Sandy was an ombudsman at Hunt Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Danvers. She put in countless hours providing resident advoca-cy, taking incredible pride in her work. Shortly before she became ill, she had started volunteer-ing with Pastoral Ministries at Brooksby Village.

Sandy had the unique ability to make people feel they were

the only person in the room –always listening and giving. She was happiest taking care of and giving to others. Sandy reached out and affected everyone whose path she crossed. Sandy was devoted to the Brooksby community, becoming an inte-gral part of the lives of her large group of friends. She will be greatly missed.

Sandy leaves behind her beloved children Andria Eisen and her husband Joel of Toronto, David Singer and his wife Randy of Framingham, and Michael Singer of Portsmouth, N.H. She leaves her sister Margie Kurtzman and her husband

Lew of Wilmington, N.C., and her brother John Margold and his wife Julie Shelffo of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sandy was an involved grand-mother to her five grandchildren and her grandson-in-law, all of whom she loved beyond mea-sure: Rebecca Eisen and her hus-band Josh Adler, Jonah Eisen, Shira Eisen, Noah Singer, and Daniel Singer.

A private burial will take place at Sons of Abraham Cemetery, Beverly. A virtual memorial ser-vice will take place at a later date.

Sandy’s children would like to give a special thank you to the staff at Beth Israel Hospital’s oncology/hematology floor, and the staff at Sawtelle Family Hospice.

Donations can be made in Sandy’s memory to the Alz-heimer’s Association (https://www.alz.org), and to Brooksby Village Benevolent Care Fund, 300 Brooksby Village Drive, Peabody, MA 01960 (978) 536-7810).

Arrangements were han-dled by Stanetsky-Hymanson Memorial Chapel, Salem. For more information or to regis-ter in the online guestbook, visit stanetskyhymansonsalem.com.

Sandra (Zetlen) Singer, 82, of Peabody, formerly of Beverly and Salem

Alexander (Shurik) Tabenkin, 87, passed away on June 5, 2020. A resident of Providence, R.I., for over 30 years, he lived the last 10 years in Natick, Mass., to be closer to his children and grandchildren.

Alex was born in Moscow, USSR, in 1933, and was the only child of Dr. Lubov Isakovich, an obstetrician, and Natan Tabenkin, a civil engineer. During WWII, he and his fam-ily survived the German inva-sion by escaping to Uzbekistan. Alex lived in Uzbekistan for two years, without formal schooling and in poverty. After the war, Alex returned to Moscow, where

he attended formal school and met many lifelong friends.

Alex earned a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and in English, a decision that shaped the rest of his life.

Alex married the love of his life, Faina, and they had two children, Boris and Lev. In 1977, the family immigrated to the United States to Providence.

Alex spent his entire career at Maher Federal. Alex became a frequent speaker and promi-nent writer on the subject of his expertise.

In retirement, Alex and Faina traveled the world and spent time with family and friends. He

was a collector of music and his-torical artifacts, including maps, coins, and flags.

Alex is survived by his beloved wife Faina; his children Boris (Lea) and Lev (Lisa); grandchil-dren Nathan, Josh, Jenna, Adam, and Micah; sister-in-law Galina (Lev); and nieces Vicky and Gittel.

In lieu of flowers, contribu-tions in his memory may be made to Parkinson’s Foundation (parkinson.org).

Arrangements were handled by Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel, Providence, R.I.

Alexander (Shurik) Tabenkin, 87, of Natick, formery of Providence, R.I.

Howard J. Nathan, 78, of Peabody, formerly of Revere

Mishna, and removed a fence that divided the properties. It also created an interfaith sec-tion, and the cemetery’s board voted earlier this year to allow the remains of those cremated to be buried on the proper-ty. The cemetery also plans to place a new plaque by the cem-etery’s Holocaust Memorial. The plaque will include a quote

from Genesis: “For you are dust. And to dust you shall return.”

Beverly Edwards, the board’s vice president, said plans are in the works to hold a fundraiser to help sustain the cemetery. “It’s very important to keep this cemetery going,” she said. “My husband and my son are buried here, and my in-laws are here, and I’ll be here.”

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CHELSEA – As the corona-virus pandemic has shaken Massachusetts over the past few months, it has highlighted the effects of inequality in the Boston area – including in the city of Chelsea, which has the state’s highest rate of COVID-19 infection, according to the city’s website.

Dr. Adriana Cohen-Hausmann, a Mass General Hospital pediatrician work-ing in Chelsea, has had first-hand experience of the situa-tion. Cohen-Hausmann works with infants and young adults at the Respiratory Illness Clinic that MGH set up on April 14 at its Chelsea facility due to the need for a greater response to the coronavirus in the city. The

clinic is open seven days a week, providing testing to individuals with COVID-19 symptoms, and offering services without regard to health insurance or immigra-tion status, according to MGH.

While she said that young patients at the clinic generally have not been affected by the coronavirus to the extent that adult patients have, she noted that socioeconomic factors have made Chelsea as a whole par-ticularly hard-hit.

The situation in Chelsea has made local and national head-lines due to its high population density, low income and sig-nificant minority population, including Latin American immi-grants who might need an inter-preter when accessing medical care. Cohen-Hausmann herself is a Latin American immigrant. She is a Venezuelan Jew who

grew up in the capital of Caracas, the daughter of a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi moth-er. She notes that the major-ity of patients at MGH Chelsea speak Spanish, as do most of the health care providers. She has been working as a pediatri-cian-in-training since graduat-ing from Tufts Medical School in 2016.

In Chelsea, she finds that the pandemic has highlighted income inequality.

“A lot of our families in Chelsea are low-income, so they’re very dependent on sala-ries,” Cohen-Hausmann said. “Families often need several jobs in order to provide for their children. Those jobs have been lost, or if the parents got sick, they’re not able to work as a result.” She said that “families often cannot access unemploy-

ment benefits in terms of rent support, which is very difficult to provide at this time.” She also noted that undocumented immigrants are not eligible to receive unemployment benefits.

Children in struggling fami-lies face age-specific difficul-ties. Cohen-Hausmann said that one of the main needs has been diapers, and the commu-nity has responded with dia-per drives. The children that Cohen-Hausmann cares for as a pediatrician often need access to school lunch pro-grams. Although area schools are closed, they have continued to provide lunches. But families worry about going out in public and risking infection, she said.

“Chelsea is a hot zone,” said Cohen-Hausmann. “People do not want to leave their houses. There are entire families and children who have not left in months. It might have compli-cated [results] on their overall well-being. It’s very challenging for a child and an adult to be at home 24 hours a day for a few months, very challenging for a family.”

Many living conditions in Chelsea have resulted in cramped quarters that may con-tribute to the spread of COVID-19, Cohen-Hausmann said.

“We know a lot of patients whose family lives in small or shared apartments,” she said. “Lots of families live in an apart-ment where they each rent one room … For a lot of patients, it’s very difficult to be in quarantine. If even one family member gets

sick, it’s easy to expose other families.”

One response was the estab-lishment of a coronavirus hotel for residents of Chelsea and Revere who needed to be quar-antined because of COVID-19. Although Cohen-Hausmann has not visited patients in a quaran-tine hotel, she has treated indi-viduals there through telemedi-cine.

“We’re hearing from families who had been sick in March,” she reflected. “At the time, we did not have hotels to provide quarantine for families. It would have been helpful.”

This is not to diminish the care that was provided, she explained. “We did as much as we could,” she said, adding that the front-line medical profes-sionals at the respiratory clinic were “able to provide much-needed care.”

“The pandemic itself is a challenge,” she said. “It’s shown the weak spots in our system … It’s put a lot of stress on low-income communities.”

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Jewish is the whole narrative of the Bible, which says we are not here by accident – that there is a creator – and that we are all created in God’s image. But there is more. God re-enters history through Moses and liberates the children of Israel from slavery, which to me says that freedom is our birthright. All that is on the line here.’’

It is not productive to engage in the current, point-less controversy over how many Jews of color there are in the United States. Whether the percentage is in single digits or double digits, the important thing is that Jews are diverse in many ways, including skin color, and inclusion – a notion sometimes in the past honored only in the breach among Jews – increasingly is regarded as a signature value in our com-munity.

“It is inexcusable for any person of color to feel excluded in the Jewish community,” said Edmund C. Case, founder and president of the Newtonville-based Center for Radically Inclusive Judaism. “The basic problem in the world is hate. We should do whatever we can to eliminate hate in the world, and this is the moment to do that.”

This is the moment for Jews literally to practice in the pews what Jews preach from the pul-pits.

“The Jewish world is not immune to the racism with which American society con-tinues to struggle,” said April Baskin, the former Union for Reform Judaism vice president for “audacious hospitality” who now is the racial-justice director for the Jewish Social

Justice Roundtable. “A good first step is for more Jewish institutions to release timely public statements explicitly expressing their commitment to combating anti-black rac-ism. Now is a time for Jews and Jewish communal lead-ers to dream big about how much more racially inclusive and informed our community can be.”

Now, the outward.Six years before he became

president, Abraham Lincoln looked at the growth of the political movement known as the Know Nothings, an anti-black, anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish group so named because when its adherents were questioned about it, they were instructed to say they knew nothing. In a letter to a friend in 1855, the Springfield lawyer answered his corre-spondent this way:

“Our progress in degenera-cy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practi-cally read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ ”

The great alliance between two great peoples historically regarded as outsiders – blacks and Jews – flourished during the civil rights movement, only to encounter stormy days in the last quarter of the 20th century. Jews cherish their legacy from the days of Rev. King, of feel-ing a sense of shared mission and fellowship with African Americans because of what Alfred Kazin, speaking of the Jewish experience in his classic “A Walker in the City,” described as “the many eras of pain, of dispersion, of cringing before

the powers of this world!”Former Sen. Lieberman,

who in 1963 went to Mississippi to help register blacks to vote and who attended that year’s March on Washington, called the episode in Minneapolis “a horrific, galvanizing moment in American history,” one that he said reminded him of the many eras of pain that Kazin described. “My reaction is as a human being but as a post-Holocaust Jew, and what that cop did to George Floyd remind-ed me of what the Nazis did to millions of Jews,’’ he said. “We especially have an obligation to fight for equality, but there also are perplexing, enormous gaps between whites and blacks in income and disproportionate likelihood of being abused by law enforcement.”

Irving Howe once wrote that the Yiddish writer Shalom Aleichem “believed in Jews as they embodied the virtues of powerlessness and the healing resources of poverty, as they stood firm against the outrage of history.” Today American

Jews generally no longer are powerless, nor do they experi-ence the healing resources of poverty, but we still can stand firm against the outrage of his-tory.

This is the moment to stand firm, to stand up – and to remember one of the often-forgotten lessons of the life of Moses, whose father-in-law, Jethro, may in the view of some scholars have been dark-skinned. Jethro was a great mentor to the Jewish leader, who in turn said to him, “And if you go with us, then the good which the Lord shall do to us we shall do to you ...”

One of the Torah portions in this difficult month of test-ing portrays the Israelites in a moment of discontent, chal-lenging Moses because of their complaints about the lack of meat in their encampment. My daughter, Rabbi Natalie Louise Shribman, spoke of the dis-heartened Moses’ initial reluc-tance to lead in her sermon for her congregation, Temple Beth El in Dubuque, Iowa:

“Moses’s desire to do any-thing but lead is not one that we should aspire for in our time of distress. We have to carry the burden of leadership and raise our voices, fighting for justice and equality in our ever-broken world. We have to be responsible and act respon-sibly. We cannot be silent and avoid the problems of our world.”

Her view is an extension of the charge that Rabbi Joachim Prinz, an outspoken critic of Hitler and a civil-rights activ-ist, presented in his speech just before the “I have a dream” speech Rev. King delivered at the March on Washington in 1963:

“Our fathers taught us thou-sands of years ago that when God created man, he created him as everybody’s neighbor. Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept. It means our collective respon-sibility for the preservation of man’s dignity and integrity.”

That collective history is a challenge to all of us – a special challenge for a people who have retained their hope through a difficult history – to strive to assure that, as the Irish poet Seamus Heaney put it 30 years ago, “hope and history rhyme.” Now, to extend the rhyme, is the time.

David M. Shribman received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for his writing on American political culture. A North Shore native, he was executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 16 years and led the newspaper’s coverage of the Tree of Life massacre that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.

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“My reaction is as a human being but as a post-Holocaust Jew, and what that cop did to George Floyd reminded me of what the Nazis did to millions of Jews,’’ said former Senator Joseph I. Lieberman.

By Robin Washington and David Schafroth

There is no such thing as race.

The racial categories that human beings divide them-selves into have no basis in biology or any other science. Human beings are all one spe-cies, and there is more varia-tion in physical appearance within any single racial group than there are between groups. There are black people fairer than most whites, whites who appear black, and so forth.

Rather, race is a political construct created and used for millennia to justify the subjuga-tion of one group of people by another. Racial definitions may vary and even contradict each other as national boundaries are crossed, meaning a person deemed belonging to one race in one country may be counted differently in another.

Time also dictates classifi-cation. Definitions of Negro, colored and mix-raced have changed over practically each 10-year period of the U.S. Census, as has the determina-tion of who is accepted as white. Finns were not so counted a century ago and Jewish immi-grants from Europe may or may not have been, depending on who was doing the counting. Given these variances due to time and space, it is impossible to determine anyone’s racial identity merely by looking at them, searching their national origin or the ethnic derivation of their name.

Yet we have attempted the impossible. The resultant best guess of this survey is based on the following methodology:

We searched all board mem-ber names as of June 2020 on the website of every constitu-ent organization that listed its board roster publicly, totaling more than 2,000 names.

For those that did not list a full roster, we accessed the board member list included on that organization’s sworn 990 Nonprofit tax-exempt fil-ing with the Internal Revenue Service for the most recent year available. In the case of a con-flict, we deferred to the IRS fil-ing except in cases where web additions would reflect recent board appointments.

We searched every board member photograph made publicly available by each group on its website, for those most identifiable as Black/African American, Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, and, though not nec-essarily recognized as persons of color in the United States, Mizrahi/Sephardic or other Middle Eastern/North African ancestry, such as Iranian, Syrian or Moroccan.

Where organizations post only some or no photographs at all, we searched third party sources including LinkedIn, Facebook, personal and pri-vate company sites and those of synagogues and local chapters of the national groups. These determinations were only made when the person in the third party photo could be matched with the listed board member with 100 percent certainty.

We searched every listed board member name of all organizations to identify any belonging to an identifiable racial, ethnic, language or tribal group, including known or pre-sumed maiden names of mar-

ried women.In cases of further ambi-

guity, we searched obituaries and other family genealogical records to determine the coun-try of origin of board members’ parents or other ancestors. We likewise searched for the birth-place of some individuals, such as, in an example representa-tive of the time/space dubi-ety of race described above, a board member whose parents were born in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. There, and at that time, the family may have been considered white. After the rise of Nazism, they no longer would have been. Immigrating to Latin America (where the board member was born, given a Hispanic first name, and grew up speaking Spanish) they may have been considered white again. Finally, with the board member com-ing to the U.S. having been immersed in Latinx culture, his identity is viewed as Hispanic.

Finally, if our number count of board members does not match up with those stated by the organizations themselves, discrepancies may be due to differences between the num-ber of names listed on the web site versus the 990 forms, board categories such as nonvoting, emeriti, past officers and others not clearly identified as full vot-ing board members, and simple mistabulation of columns lit-erally counted on our fingers from the computer screen. Such errors may be prevalent both ways, as we have found instances where organizations have listed one or more names multiple times. Corrections are welcome; we beg forgiveness and grant the same.

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cerns. It’s tedious, but not brain surgery, and hardly foreign to any organization leaders exam-ining the makeup of their own boards, especially when recruit-ing new members. (That’s cer-tainly true when it comes to board giving: Data unintention-ally unveiled in our research showed a sizable number of bil-lionaire board members, easily outpacing Jews of color, though some are blessed to belong to both groups.)

If corporations had somehow been oblivious to board diver-sity before our earlier study and similar analyses by others, they’re well aware of it now. California law now mandates gender representation on all public company boards, inspir-ing lawmakers in other states to do likewise.

I will not entertain, however, that racial diversity is some-thing only suddenly coming to light in Jewish organizations courtesy of the death of George Floyd. In 1995, when Michelle Stein-Evers, then of Los Angeles, Rabbi Capers Funnye and I co-founded the Alliance of Black Jews to widespread Jewish press coverage, board participation was already well articulated.

“I said back then that we Black Jews need to be represented on the Conference of Presidents,” recalled Stein-Evers, who now lives in Australia, where she has worked on reparations for

Holocaust survivors. “A quar-ter century later, these groups are acting like they still haven’t heard of Black Jews.”

That’s despite “famous Black Jews” lists clogging social media feeds, naming everyone from Drake to Tiffany Haddish to Amar'e Stoudemire.

“Have any of these organiza-tions ever asked you?” I mes-saged Rain Pryor, daughter of the late comedian Richard and a creative force in her own right.

“Never!” she replied instant-ly.

So when does this need to happen: at the next round of board appointments? Nonsense. I’ve served on enough boards (and not the major Jewish ones) to know members can be added at any time unless the rules prohibit it, and if so, then bylaws can be amended.

But don’t just take my admo-nition. Listen to the ADL (which has on its board two people of color not identifiable as Jewish, and no Black Jews):

“Systemic injustice and inequality calls for systemic change. Now.”

Robin Washington is co-founder of the Alliance of Black Jews and a longtime journalist who has worked in Boston and the Midwest. He currently hosts a public affairs program on Wisconsin Public Radio.

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“Not only are they follow-ing through,” she reported, “but many are expediting their ali-yah dates because they are feel-ing more anti-Semitism in their communities, and because they believe that Israel has been han-dling the corona situation so well. They feel Israel is on top of things and in Israel, every per-son really matters, whereas in America the public policy was affected by business decisions

over the importance of a per-son’s life, especially the elderly.”

In one of the organization’s recent virtual programming, Rosen-Solow led a webinar about purchasing real estate in Israel with more than 300 people tuning in.

Other trends that she report-ed include properties that used to be rented out through Airbnb coming onto the market fully furnished. And while mort-gage interest rates have gone up slightly in Israel, banks have been “a bit more flexible and lenient” in the process of loan approval.

In another show of increas-ing interest in Israeli real estate, Natan Silver, a U.S.-based inves-tor and investing consultant, recently opened a WhatsApp group for potential buyers and renters in Israel, finding that despite market failures and uncertainty caused by the coro-

navirus, “there’s still a high vol-ume of potential buyers, renters and investors, and the real estate market in Israel is going up.”

With the mix of the “ideal-ism of a Jewish person owning property in Israel, yearning and desiring to return to our land,” and positive real estate trends over the last year, he told JNS, purchasing apartments anytime in Israel is a safe investment in the long term.

In the United States, Silver said, “people are holding back on selling, afraid of having to sell their properties for a lower price.”

But in Israel, he countered, “everyone was expecting prices to go down; however, for that reason, everyone immediately ran to the market in Israel to see what’s going on. So sellers are seeing an increase in demand, and all of a sudden they are upping their prices now.”

Even during a pandemic, American Jews seek real estate in Israel

A vacation villa near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.

Jake Hamburg, son of Holly and Phil Hamburg of Northbrook, IL and grand-son of Lois and Bobby Kaplan of Marblehead and Sally and Roger Hamburg of South Bend, IN, graduated from Glenbrook North High School with top honors. In addition to being a member of the National Honor Society, Jake was named as a Glenbrook Scholar (given to those students with a GPA of 4.5 or higher out of 4.0), an Illinois State Scholar, and received the AP Scholars with Honors distinction, the GBN Science Achievement Award in Biology and the Illinois State Seal of Biliteracy in French.

He also received the Brandon

Dann Rotstein Memorial Baseball Scholarship which is awarded to Glenbrook North varsity baseball seniors who have demonstrated outstand-ing leadership and sportsman-ship, as well as the Temple Beth-El Matthew Schaefer Schwartz Tikkun Olam Scholarship Award which is awarded to a graduat-ing high school senior who has made significant contributions to the Jewish Ideal of “help-ing to repair the world.” Jake spent his high school career as a Varsity Basketball and Baseball player, Glenbrook North math tutor and worked as a volun-teer at the Keshet Adult Sunday School program. Jake will be attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the fall, where he will be focusing his studies on chemistry/pre-med.

Jake’s grandmother, Lois Kaplan, is the sales and mar-keting manager at the Jewish Journal.

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Epstein Hillel School in Marblehead is thrilled to wel-come Heidi Chapple as the new Kindergarten teacher. She will assume her new post in August after the retirement of 30-year veteran teacher, Barbara Sidman.

Chapple has a deep commit-ment to Jewish education. She comes to EHS from The Rashi School where, over the course of 21 years, she worked taught kin-dergarten and first grade teach-er before becoming Head of the Lower School. Prior to Rashi, she was a preschool teacher at the Jewish Community Center in Stoughton and taught art in her hometown of New York City. During her teaching career, she has mentored numerous stu-dents in the teaching programs from Wheelock College, Lesley University, Boston University and the Delet Program at Brandeis University.

Chapple believes strongly in differentiated education; meet-ing students where they are and ensuring that each child has the tools to be successful in meet-ing the goals that they have set together. From her roots as an art teacher, she takes every oppor-tunity to incorporate multi-sensory learning into her class-room. Chapple is acutely aware that next fall’s incoming kinder-garten class will bring with it the loss of several months of pre-school. She is already making plans to start building relation-ships with her new students, well before school resumes in the fall. Kindergarten students’ social/emotional development

is paramount in her eyes.Thrilled to be returning to

the classroom, Chapple said that she is “returning to her true love: working with children.” With a robust Kindergarten class enrolled for the 2020-2021 academic year (only a few spots remain for the fall), she is look-ing forward to joining the EHS community and working with the exceptional leadership and teaching team to adapt to what-ever the school setting will look like in the fall.

Chapple holds a degree in Synesthetic Education from Syracuse University, a Masters in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College, and Principal Licensure from Massachusetts Elementary Principal Association. She lives in Brookline with her husband Michael and is a mother of three, and proud grandmother of four granddaughters.

Hebrew College honored more than 30 rab-bis, cantors, and Jewish educators during virtual graduation ceremonies on June 7. The ceremony marks the 99th graduation in the College’s his-tory, but the first to be held virtually.

This year’s graduates will work in Reform, Conservative and Independent synagogues, Hillels, and pastoral care settings across the United States and Canada. Greater Boston place-ments include Rabbi Mimi Micner, who is joining Temple Beth Torah in Holliston; Rabbi Talia Stein, who is joining Temple Sinai in Brookline; and Cantor David Wolff, who is joining Temple Beth Am in Framingham.

“My experience at Hebrew College has given me the tools to understand what values, what learning, what actions are important to

me because they are important to me and not because someone else says they are important. I learned a lot of text, but most importantly, I learned how to authentically teach and live my Torah,” said Rabbi Talia Stein. “I am thrilled to be continuing my work at Temple Sinai in Brookline as their assistant rabbi. This community embod-ies what it means to be a kehilah shel hesed, a community of loving-kindness.”

The new rabbis include Jessica Sarah Goldberg, Gita Dalia Karasov, Noam Vered Raye Berl Lerman, Sam Luckey, Michal Sharon Micner, Sarah A. Noyovitz, Matthew Rubin Ponak, Rachel Amy Putterman, Talia Eve Stein and Rebecca Lee Weintraub. The new cantors are Jennifer Nicole Boyle, Rachel Slusky and David Daniel Wolff.

Hamburg to attend Wisconsin

Chapple to join Epstein Hillel School teaching staff

Jake Hamburg

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Hebrew College held its graduation online earlier this month.

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