Sh'vat / Adar 5777February 2017

CONTENTS february 2017 • sh'vat/adar 5777volume 88 • number 2

4 From the Editor 5 Invitation to the Tulsa Night to Honor Israel by Connie Hammond

5 Fly Me to The Moon: A Night of Sinatra, Cocktails, and Blackjack to Benefit Mizel 6 Congregation B’nai Emunah’s Centennial Gala by Brian Edward Brouse

8 The Jew Who Saved the Green Bay Packers by Louis Davidson

10 Teen Trialogue: Finding Common Ground 12 February Community Events 14 The New Face of Giving: The Tulsa Jewish United Fund  by Heather Lewin

15 Israeli Reuters Photographer to Present in Tulsa  by Yohai Gross

16 Objects from the Future by Mickel Yantz

19 Jews and Nike: Just Do It!  by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

19 Butterflies 20 The Jewish Confederate by Phil Goldfarb

22 The Righteous Among Us  by Drew Diamond

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Invitation to the Tulsa Night to Honor Israel

by Connie Hammond

You are cordially invited to the 2017 Tulsa Night to Honor Israel, which will take place on Sunday, Feb-ruary 19 at 6 p.m. at Victory Christian

Church, 7700 S. Lewis Avenue. The Night to Honor Israel is a special event designed to honor the State of Israel and the local Tulsa Jewish Community each year. Victory Church hosts the event each year by reaching out to churches, ministries, and communities citywide to come together in a tangible way and show their support of Israel and the local Jewish Community. The Tulsa Night to Honor Israel joins with Christians United For Israel (CUFI) and other pro-Israel organizations to publicly declare Israel’s right to exist as a nation, to support and highlight the local Jewish community, and to recognize their contributions to Tulsa and to the world.

Each year, Sharon Daugherty, Founding Pastor of Victory Church and Oklahoma Director of CUFI, joins other city and ministry leaders in a festive celebration of Israeli culture and recognition. A special offering is taken up each year with 100% of all proceeds benefitting Israeli programs doing essential work either in Israel or here in the US. The event also hosts a keynote speaker each year who brings a special message regarding current events and updates regarding the nation of Israel. This year’s Keynote speaker will be Holocaust Survivor, Mr. Irving Roth.

The program brings a beautiful set of authentic Israeli music for the audience to enjoy. Much of the music is sung in the original Hebrew and comes from a host of traditional folklore and temple worship. The Israeli flag, which is given to each attendee upon their entrance, can be seen waving during many of the lively pieces sung with the audience. Much of the music is set to stunning panoramic scenery on the video screens above. Expect a festive and beautiful sound and visual experience, while expressing unwavering support for the nation and people of Israel.

Connie Hammond is a senior at Oral Roberts University, a former intern at the Jewish Federa-tion of Tulsa, and President of the ORU United for Israel Club. Connie looks forward to supporting Israel, the Jewish people, and a strong U.S.-Israel relationship for many years to come. ■

Fly Me to The Moon: A Night of Sinatra, Cocktails, and Blackjack to Benefit Mizel

Step back in time to the heyday of the Rat Pack with the Flo and Morris Mizel Jewish Community Day School for an evening of delectable food and cocktails, the vocal stylings of “Frank Sinatra,” and casino-style gaming on Sat-urday, February 25, 2017. “Fly Me to the Moon: A Night with Frank Sinatra in

Vegas” will take place at 6 p.m. at the Zarrow Campus, 2021 E. 71st Street. The evening will begin with cocktails in The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art, then on to the Barbara and Dave Sylvan Auditorium for dinner and entertainment.

The event will feature Dave Halston, one of the country’s premier Frank Sinatra impersonators, along with his live band. Mr. Halston’s interpretation of Sinatra’s style has been called the “best of the best.” Guests will be able to hit the dance floor and sway to the sounds of “Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself. In addition, casino-style gaming will be orchestrated by one of Tulsa’s leading event specialists, featuring blackjack, roulette, craps tables and Texas hold ‘em. Proceeds from the evening will benefit the Mizel Scholarship Fund.

Founded in 1975, Mizel Jewish Community Day School is the only Jewish Day School in the state. The school provides an outstanding education in both general and Judaic studies for students of all faiths in pre-school through fifth grade. Mizel maintains a supportive, yet challenging atmosphere that fosters a lifelong commitment to learning, to Israel and to the imperative of Tikkun Olam, repairing and caring for the world.

Ticket prices start at $75 for general admission. Preferred and patron-level seating opportunities are available, as well as sponsorship opportunities. For more information call Mizel at 918.494.0953. ■

Dave Halston, one of the nation’s premier Frank Sinatra

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“Too often we underestimate the power of touch. A smile. A kind word. A listening ear. An honest compliment. Or the smallest act of caring. All of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

–Leo BuscagliaWith Valentine’s Day falling in February, it’s easy to think of it as the month

of love. Mickel Yantz from The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art wrote a wonderful piece about ketubot for this month’s issue that explores the history and artistry of the marriage document. In addition to romantic love, I challenge you to think about other kinds of love. There’s the love of Israel, that Jewish Tulsa is celebrating this month through an incredible exhibition at the museum. Shooting Under Fire, Photographs by Gil Cohen-Magen highlights the many faces of the Holy Land. Our Shaliach Yohai Gross talks about his love of Israel, his native land, in his article this month and how difficult it can be to share his vision of his country. There’s also the love of our beloved Jewish commu-nity, both in Tulsa and globally. We help support our fellow Jews locally and around the world through our contributions to the Tulsa Jewish United Fund. This month, love of our community and Israel comes together in the opening event for this year’s TJUF…a special evening when Gil Cohen-Magen will give a talk at the Federation on February 21. There’s also the love of our fellowman. I encourage you to read Drew Diamond’s article about the Righteous Among Us and how we, as a Compassionate Community, can all work together to do the right thing. And finally, the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice (OCCJ), is once again sponsoring its incredible Teen Trialogue series to help Tulsa youth find their common ground, despite their different faith traditions.

Happy month of love,Melissa

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Congregation B’nai Emunah’s Centennial Gala

by Brian Edward Brouse

Synagogues that reach their centennial celebrations are sometimes tired versions of their youthful selves, but Con-

gregation B’nai Emunah has reached the 100-year mark with its vigor and energy intact. For the last year, CBE has celebrat-ed a centennial event every month and published new liturgical materials, CD compilations of its music program, and biographical portfolios on its founders, presidents, and each of the seven senior rabbis in the history of the congrega-tion. It also succeeded in engaging its young people in creating a large-scale LEGO replica of the Synagogue building. That model represents the hope that the Synagogue will be cherished by the next generation, just as it has by those who

founded and nurtured it for ten consecu-tive decades.

The Centennial Gala on the night of Sunday, December 11 was a fitting climax to a year of celebration. Over 300 guests, including members and friends of the congregation, came to the Synagogue for an uplifting experience of joy and celebra-tion. Gala co-chairs Nancy Cohen, Mark Goldman, and Jolene Sanditen-Stephens

brought guests together for a festive night of feasting and dancing. The building was beautifully illuminated inside and out with swirling blue light, and every corner of the facility said something about the Synagogue’s past, present, or future. Three historic videos featured impor-tant voices from the past: Rabbi Arthur Dov Kahn, past president Dr. Manuel Brown, and Gete Weisman, spoke about the life and hard work of her parents, Louis and Bessie Blend. Another display featured cherished objects from the Synagogue archive, including programs from previous anniversaries and historic photos from the collection of Rosetta and Avrom Brodsky. A third gallery was given over to a light-hearted display of one hundred imprinted kippot (yarmulkes) representing life-cycle events from every period of congregational life.

A short welcome by the co-chairs gave way to blessings by Rabbi Daniel Kaiman

over two magnificent challot, baked for the occasion by Dr. W.C. Goad. This was followed by an elegant, five-course dinner of sea bass, cavatelli pasta, and a rich chocolate dessert, all catered by Justin Thompson Restaurants. Golem NYC, a retro-hip ensemble of new-wave Jewish musicians flew into Tulsa for the occasion and kept guests dancing from beginning to end. Meanwhile, a thousand images of

synagogue members and friends were projected onto large screens in Kaiser-Miller auditorium and gave depth and context to the event. It was especially meaningful to those present that the event took place with the Sanctuary Ark illuminated on one side of the room and the brightly-lit stage on the other. This was truly an example of a congregation celebrating an important milestone in its own home.

Immediately following the meal, Pres-ident Craig Silberg thanked everyone for coming, and commended the hundreds of volunteers who were involved in the year-long centennial celebration. Rabbi Fitzerman followed with his hope that the next century would be marked by moments of great joy, deep curiosity about Jewish tradition, and the pursuit of justice and equity in the larger world. One mark of a healthy religious commu-nity is the ability to see beyond its own needs and sweep the whole world into its circle of concern.

Past-President and Foundation Board Member David Edward Charney spoke about the Scott Foreman Zarrow Rabbinic Endowment Fund, a new effort to ensure top-flight leadership in the century to come. Millions of dollars have been raised, with a general campaign now beginning. When the Zarrow Endowment is fully funded, the Synagogue will join the ranks of a small number of congregations world-wide with an endowed rabbinate.

Rabbi Fitzerman closed with the offi-cial presentation of a new Torah scroll. Originally commissioned by the congre-gation for its 90th anniversary, the Torah had been dedicated, but not yet brought to the center of a congregational event. With the prompting of music by the visiting band, the congregation formed great circles around President Silberg as he held the Torah and began to dance. Many congregants participated in the writing of the Torah, and their contri-butions were symbolized by the presence of Joseph Charney, the youngest person in attendance, and Norman Levin, the most senior of the Synagogue’s elders. Both were seated in throne chairs in the center of the room. Dressed in a mantle fashioned by Rabbi Fitzerman, the Torah was mounted on staves created in Tulsa for the occasion and carried aloft in a swirl of sound and light. ■

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The Jew Who Saved the Green Bay Packers

by Louis Davidson

With all of the media-hype about Super Bowl LI, I cannot help remem-bering our trip to Green

Bay, Wisconsin last August. Unlike most visitors to Green Bay, who come to watch the fabled Green Bay Packers, we were there to photograph Synagogue Cnesses Israel. Green Bay is a football crazy city of 104,000 hardy souls with an 80,000-seat stadium. I label them hardy because they’ve got to be to sit in frigid Wiscon-sin winter weather watching some guys push each other around for possession of

a pointy shaped non-kosher (pigskin) ball.Our first hint of the city’s total foot-

ball focus came as we drove to our hotel on Vince Lombardi Avenue, which we reached by winding through a network of streets named after Green Bay Packers Hall of Famers. Even though I’m much more interested in synagogue photog-raphy than football, it was fascinating to see a city whose identity is so caught up in a single pursuit. The Packers are the last vestige of “small town teams” common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. Every other big league professional sports

team is based in a major metro area with millions of fans. The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned  major league professional sports team based in the United States. Even the rabbi, a trans-planted Okie gal, has a share of Packers stock.

Only two blocks from the synagogue, we passed City Field. Now a high school football venue, it was prominently labeled as the original home field of the Packers. When I commented upon this prox-imity to the rabbi’s husband, he offered that although it was relatively unknown, Jews had figured importantly in the early history of the Green Bay Packers. In fact, he said, “It was two Jewish guys from Green Bay who saved the team from financial collapse.”

Here’s the story: Green Bay was a meat packing center and Great Lakes shipping port. It was a tough, brawling, red necked, blue collar town with many anti-Semitic eastern European immigrants. While

World War I was raging in Europe, high school football was becoming the rage here at home. Izzy and Nate Abrams, sons of Jewish merchant Sam Abrams, along with Earl “Curly” Lambeau were among the best players. Nate liked iron as well as gridiron. Rather than attend college, he opened his own scrap iron business and prospered, all the while playing football for the Skidoos, a local team. In fact, Nate called the 1919 organizational meeting for the Packers in the Green Bay Press-Gazette office where the Skidoos had previously met. Abrams passed captaincy of the team to his old high school team-mate Lambeau because he was the more popular (non-Jewish) player.

Nate, along with Charlie Sauber, another Jewish player, played for the Packers from 1919 until the early 1920s. In 1921, the Packers joined the profes-sional league that would become the NFL. Abrams played in one game, scoring a touchdown on an interception. This big time, pro league had big players too. Prob-ably too big for compact Nate, which likely

explains why he didn’t play again. Never-theless, Nate remained very interested in the team. In 1922, when Nate heard that the team was financially foundering, he handed Lambeau $3,000 (equivalent to $35,000 today) for operating expenses. In exchange, Lambeau ceded ownership of the franchise to his friend. But Abrams, due to anti-Semitic sentiment, stayed in the background letting Lambeau operate the Packers. A little over a year later, with classic Jewish creativity, Abrams began the unique system of selling stock in the franchise to the public and by 1925 his loan had been repaid.

While Nate Abrams figured as impor-tantly as Curly Lambeau in the birth and history of the Packers, he has been ignored in Packers lore. Two Jews are honored with plaques at the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame at Lambeau Field: Charles “Buckets” Goldenberg, who played from 1933 to 1945 and former general manager Ron Wolf, a member of Cnesses Israel, who led the team to an NFL championship in 1966. In his book The Lambeau Years (1987, Angel

Press of Wisconsin), Larry Names deals with the fact that Abrams is treated as a negligible afterthought in Packers history. Names wrote that due to the prevalent anti-Semitic attitudes, the team emphasized Lambeau’s role and minimized Abrams. All of this was with Nate’s acquiescence. His primary goal was the best interest of the team.

The 120-family Jewish population of Green Bay was near its peak in 1904 when it dedicated Anshe Keneseth Israel, the city’s first synagogue. Back then, the congregation was Orthodox, but morphed to Conservative when it adopted the name Cnesses Israel and moved to its new mid-century modern building near City Field in 1951. Nowadays, the synagogue has about 85 member fami-lies and describes itself as being fiercely Egalitarian Reservadox because they are a mixed congregation: a few Reform, a few Orthodox, mainly Conservative.

It’s a Cnesses Israel tradition that when the Packers make it to the Super Bowl, there is no Sunday School! ■

Nate Abrams

Synagogue Cnesses Israel

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Teen Trialogue: Finding

Common Ground

Th e o k l a h o m a c e n t e r for Community and Justice will host its annual Teen Trialogue Series, Wednesdays, February 1, February

8, February 15, and February 22 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Teen Trialogue brings together high school students from different faith and no-faith traditions to discuss topics relevant to life and religion. This program affords students an opportunity to learn from each other about their faith traditions.

Students are able to compare and contrast from their own personal experiences, learn their differences and discover the many similarities they share. This year the theme is “Don’t Stop Believing: Religious Journeys and Quests.” No proselytizing is allowed.

This program is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. Adult advisors must register their youth by January 30 to srana@occjok.org. Teen Trialogue will provide a vegetarian dinner at the beginning of the program. For more information, contact the OCCJ office at 918.583.1361 or via email at info@occjok.org.

The Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice is dedicated to achieving respect and understanding for all people through education, advocacy, and dialogue with the purpose to end bias, bigotry, and racism in our state and in our generation. For more information, contact the OCCJ office at 100 West Fifth Street, Suite 701, Tulsa, OK 74103. Phone 918.583.1361 or visit our website at www.occjok.org. ■

Teen Trialogue brings together high school

students from different faith and no-faith

traditions to discuss topics relevant to life and religion.

DATES & TIMESThis program takes place at four different locations and ends with a service project.

The locations are as follows:February 1, Islam: Peace Academy 4620 S. Irvington Ave.February 8, Christianity: Boston Avenue United Methodist Church 1301 S Boston Ave.February 15, Judaism: Temple Israel 2004 E. 22nd Pl.February 22, Service Project: Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma 1304 N Kenosha Ave.

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FEBRUARY COMMUNITY EVENTS

Jewish Federation of TulsaDate: Trivia Night • Sat., Feb. 4 • Doors 6 p.m./Trivia 7 p.m. • Come play Trivia and enjoy a wine pull, silent auction and more! Proceeds benefit the Dave R. Sylvan Camp Scholarship Fund and Mizel Jewish Community Day School. $200 per table of 8/$30 per individual. Ages 21 and up welcome. To RSVP call 918.495.1100.

Institute of Adult Jewish Studies Winter 2017 • Mondays, Now-Feb. 27 • First Hour 7 p.m./Second Hour 8 p.m. • Classes will take place at the Charles Schusterman JCC. Questions? Call Mindy Prescott at 918.495.1100.

Men’s Club • Wed., Feb. 8 • Noon • A delicious lunch will be followed by our speaker, Randy Cogburn, whose topic will be Memory and Music. Cost of the luncheon is $8. Please RSVP to Falisha at 918.495.1100 or mprescott@jewishtulsa.org by noon on Tues., Feb. 7.

Ladies Who Lunch • Mon., Feb. 20 • Noon •  Come enjoy pleasant conversation and great food at Wild Fork (1820 Utica Square). Each person pays her own check. Please RSVP to Mindy at 918.935.3662 or mprescott@jewishtulsa.org no later than Fri., Feb. 17.

“Shooting Under Fire” Tulsa Jewish United Fund (TJUF) 2017 Opening Event • Tues., Feb. 21 • 7 p.m. • Please be sure to join us at the Charles Schusterman JCC for an evening with acclaimed Israeli photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen, who spent 10 years working with the Reuters news agency. With a portfolio that ranges from the most violent scenes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the closed world of the ultra-Orthodox Hassidim, Cohen-Magen has captured the many faces of the Holy Land through his lens. The event includes a special exhibit tour featuring more of Cohen-Magen’s work on display in the SMMJA.

Men’s Club • Wed., Feb. 22 • Noon • A delicious lunch will be followed by our speaker, Sara Levitt, Director of Jewish Life and Learning at Congregation B’nai Emunah. Cost of the luncheon is $8. Please RSVP to Falisha at 918.495.1100 or mprescott@jewishtulsa.org by noon on Tues., Feb. 21.

The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art

Exhibit: Sugar Skulls and Candles •  Now-Feb. 26 • This exhibit features work from Oklahoma Hispanic artists in partnership with members of the Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that touches on traditions and related experiences in the two historical cultures: the Jewish people and the Hispanic community.

Exhibit: Games in Jewish History • Now-Feb. 28 • Learn about games played and invented by Jews, from the Jackal and Hounds board game in 2200 BC, to World of Warcraft created by Blizzard Entertainment, started by two Jewish gamers.

Exhibit: 50th Anniversary Show • Now–March 26 • Celebrate five decades of preserving and sharing the legacy of Jewish art, history, and culture in Tulsa with an exhibition showcasing artifacts from the original donations in 1966, including beautifully hand-crafted objects of Judaica and archeology.

Exhibit: Theodore Fried Lithographs and Plates • Now-Winter 2017 • SMMJA holds the largest collection of original Theodore Frieds and this exhibit showcases lithographs and plates. Fried started using lithographs to study subjects that later would become full paintings. Watch the evolution of a work as it starts with a scratched plate and becomes a work of art.

Exhibit: The Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art • Now-Dec. 31 • This exhibition from Yad Vashem features 11 works created immediately after the liberation until 1947 that attempt to investigate how survivors reacted to the liberation through art. When liberation finally arrived, the survivors found themselves torn between their desire to return to life and their need to face the devastation and mourn.

Exhibit: Shooting Under Fire, Photographs by Gil Cohen-Magen • Feb. 6–28 • Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen’s photographs have graced the front pages of some of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines. With a portfolio that ranges from the most violent scenes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to the closed world of ultra-Orthodox Hassidim, Cohen-Magen has captured the many faces of the Holy Land through his lens.

Exhibit: 11th Annual Purim Mask Invitational • March 2–April 9 • Elementary, middle and high school students create masks and learn about the Jewish holiday of Purim and have their creations displayed at the museum. Please join us at the opening reception on Thurs., March 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Congregation B’nai EmunahELEVEN: Shabbat Lunch and Learning • Sat., Feb. 4 • 11 a.m. • A new opportunity for learning and community, ELEVEN is a Shabbat meal animated by big ideas and important conversations. Rabbi Kaiman will led this month’s topic (Why Grow Up?) which challenges our ideas about coming of age rituals. A simultaneous learning track for current B’nai Mitzvah families will be led by Sara Levitt. RSVP for the optional meal by calling the Synagogue office or visiting the website. Meal cost is $10/person.

Shabbat for Everyone • Fri., Feb. 10 • 6:15 p.m. Dinner/ 7 p.m. Celebration • Love to dance, sing and spend time with friends and family? Our monthly, kid-friendly Shabbat experience which begins with a delicious dinner is for you! We then move into the sounds and movements of a joyous Friday night celebration. No reservation is needed for the service, but please call our office or visit our website by Wed., Feb. 8, to make dinner reservations.

Sustainability Seder • Sun., Feb. 12 • 6 p.m. • In an era of rapid climate change, Tu Be-Shevat (Jewish Arbor Day), forces us to reflect on

our responsibility to sustain and defend the planet. Call our office or visit our website to make your reservations for the dinner to be catered by James Shrader of the Palace Cafe. Cost is $25.

Booksmart: Ayelet Waldman • Wed., Feb. 15 • 7 p.m. • Drawing on her experience as a federal public defender, as the mother of teenagers, and her research into the therapeutic value of psychedelics, Ayelet Waldman has produced a book that is eye-opening, often hilarious, and utterly enthralling. She visits the Synagogue in partnership with Booksmart Tulsa and Magic City Books to offer a reading and discuss her most recent work, A Really Good Day.

Bibi-Dibi: Shabbat for Tots • Fri., Feb. 24 • 6 p.m. • A Shabbat experience for our very youngest members, we sit on the floor, sing songs, play games, and dance our way into the weekend. With blessings to share and good food to enjoy, parents, grandparents and community members are invited to the short service. However, we do ask that you make reservations if you plan to join us for the Shabbat dinner. $12 for adults and just $1 for those tots. Visit our website or call the offices today.

Seventeenth Street Deli • Sun., Feb. 26 • 6 p.m. • You’ve known us as the best pastrami sandwich in Oklahoma, but join us as we celebrate our one-year anniversary for the debut of a new menu item—our corned beef! Of course, the pastrami isn’t going anywhere. Make a choice and dig in. You won’t want to miss this debut event. Visit tusladeli.org or call the Synagogue office to make your reservation today.

Temple IsraelTGIS: Thank God It’s Shabbat! • Fri., Feb. 3 • 6 p.m. • Join a spirited, family-friendly service with the joyful music of Jenny Labow and our band. February birthdays will be invited up for a special blessing. There will be prayers on a big screen, and siddurim available. Services followed by Shabbat dinner catered by Zoe’s Kitchen. Thank you to the Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation for sponsoring our Shabbat dinner. Contact the Temple office at 918.747.1309 or reservations@templetulsa.com to RSVP for dinner and payment.

Shabbat Morning Service • Sat., Feb. 4 • 10:30 a.m. • Participatory prayer and Torah study followed by a potluck lunch. Be part of our warm minyan. If you are able, please bring a dish to share.

Brotherhood Breakfast • Sun., Feb. 5 • Breakfast 9:30 a.m./Speaker 10 a.m. • For nearly 80 years, Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry has served to bind our diverse religious community together to develop and implement programs for the good of the city. Join us as we host TMM Executive Director Ray Hickman to provide an overview of this important Tulsa non-profit whose theme is, “We don’t have to believe alike to love alike.” Breakfast prepared by brotherhood members is $8 with RSVP or $10 at the door. RSVP for the breakfast to Peter Rao at 918.640.6445 or peteralanrao@sbcglobal.net no later than Wed., Feb. 1.

Tu B’Shevat Seder • Sun., Feb. 12 • 11 a.m. •  Be part of a joyous celebration of the New Year

for the Trees. We will enjoy a variety of fruits, nuts, Tu Bishvat-themed snacks, and juices, take part in a nature activity, sing songs, and hear inspiring stories about trees from our tradition. To ensure that we have plenty of seats and food, kindly RSVP to 918.747.1309 or reservations@ templetulsa.com by Wed., Feb. 8.

The Marcia Jankowsky Memorial Cantorial Concert • Sun., Feb. 19 • 7 p.m. • Be with us Presidents’ Weekend as we are pleased to present “Coffeehouse Cantors: Songs of Patriotism and Pride,” with Cantor Faith Steinsnyder, Cantor-in-Residence at Temple Israel and Professor of Cantorial Studies at HUC-JIR, NYC; her husband, Cantor David Perper of Congregation Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah, NJ; Cantor Dana Anesi of the Temple for Universal Judaism in New York and Fieldwork Coordinator for the Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music at HUC-JIR; Cantor Jordan Franzel of Or Ami in Lafayette Hill, PA; and Cantor Ilan Mamber of Temple Beth Rishon, Wyckoff, NJ, Our own multi-talented Eliot Glaser and other special guests will also perform for this evening of song!

Tot Shabbat • Fri., Feb. 24 • 6 p.m. • This special Shabbat experience is designed for families with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and young elementary school children. The whole mishpacha (family) is welcome to attend. Our 30-minute service will include singing, a story, a Torah parade, and more. Following the service, there will be a delicious dinner, and activities for the kids. For more information or to RSVP for the dinner, please contact Jenn Selco at 918.392.8483 or jennifer@templetulsa.com.

Sunday Morning Adult Education Series • Sun., Feb. 26 • 10 a.m. •  Come enjoy a bagel and a good cup of coffee, and good study. Open to all adults, including parents, and grandparents. Learn while the kids are in classes. The educational theme is “Oh, the Jewish Places You’ll Go: Synagogue, Land, and Home.” The session will focus on the different communities of Israel.

Sisterhood Rosh Chodesh • Sun., Feb. 26 • 5 p.m. • Welcome the new Hebrew month of Adar with your sisters, along with the heroines of the Megillah. Contact Mary Arlan at gracie488@cox.net or 918.830.1122 for more information.

Mitzvah of the Month: Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma • Please refer to Temple Israel’s February bulleTIn for different opportunities to volunteer the CFBEO this month.

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Israeli Reuters Photographer to Present in Tulsa

by Yohai Gross

When people ask me to describe Israel I always find it as an impossible task. I have the same

feeling when I am doing a presentation. It is so hard to find the right photo that expresses precisely what I want to define.

Israel has many faces, some are beau-tiful and gentle, while some are difficult

and not easy to handle. It seems as if every person has their own view about Israel and even that view changes all the time.

To work as a photographer is to capture reality, but the question remains, in what way does the photographer see that reality?

When I am telling how I see Israel, I am telling my personal story. It is biased and not objective by any means. Now try to imagine that you are a young Jewish Israeli working for the Reuters news agency. You need to give the most objective image of the situation that you are in: terror attack,

an army operation, or just people in the street. How do you detach yourself and take the picture without your personal baggage?

Gil Cohen-Magen is a photographer from Israel who worked for Reuters for 10 years in every corner of Israel and

the West Bank. On Tuesday, February 21, to kick off our 2017 events through the Tulsa Jewish United Fund, Cohen-Magen will present his work at 7 p.m. at the Federation. His talk will include a special exhibit at the Sherwin Miller Museum, running February 6-28. We are happy to have him here to tell of his personal experience and to learn from him about journalistic reporting and ethics. ■

The New Face of Giving: The Tulsa

Jewish United Fund by Heather Lewin, Deputy Director—

Development & Marketing

For 60 years, it called upon us to help our fellow Jews. From European refugees scattered through-out the Diaspora, to the Jewish community in then Palestine, and more, the United Jewish Appeal

(UJA) was the driving force in Jewish philanthropy and our ability to give collectively as a community. Three generations of Jews came to know, we give to UJA.

As needs evolved around the world, the UJA merged first with the United Israel Appeal to become United Jewish Communities in 1999, and then, in 2009, became what we are a proud member of today, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Just as in Tulsa, the Annual Campaigns from our sister federations across the country raise funds to benefit their local Jewish communities and JFNA, our national organization, which, with international partners, sends aid where it is needed most in Israel and to Jewish communities in more than 70 countries around the world.

Here in Tulsa, we have always stood out as a giving community, generating philanthropy beyond the level one might expect from our relatively small Jewish population. A new name for this collective, community effort has emerged, the Tulsa Jewish United Fund. Formerly the Federation Annual Campaign, this effort honors the tradition of UJA while uniting us as a local, giving community.

Your annual gift to the Tulsa Jewish United Fund (TJUF) touches everything at Federation and spreads your good intentions around the world. Every contribution matters. We wish to send a sincere thank you to each and every 2016 donor and encourage you to join us as we boldly move into 2017 together, with new outreach, new programs, and new ideas to welcome and engage our community.

Please be sure to join us at our 2017 TJUF Opening Event, “Shooting Under Fire,” an evening with acclaimed Israeli photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen, who spent 10 years working with the Reuters news agency. With a portfolio that ranges from the most violent scenes of the Israeli- Pales-tinian conflict, to the closed world of the ultra-Orthodox Hassidim, Cohen-Magen has captured the many faces of the Holy Land through his lens.

In his lecture, Cohen-Magen will discuss the economic and cultural challenges he faced as a photojournalist as well as questions about journalistic reporting and ethics, what sells pictures, and how it all affects his photographic deci-sions. Look for your invitation in the mail to this special event, on February 21st, which includes an exhibit at the Sherwin Miller Museum featuring more of Cohen-Magen’s work. ■

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a contributing member of his household which required compensation. Thus, the groom’s family made a financial settle-ment to the bride’s family as part of the engagement agreement. The ketubah is not a contract between husband and wife

and certainly does not indicate that a man has purchased his wife from her father. In the post-Biblical era the economic conditions changed and so did the legal function of a ketubah. If a woman is left alone due to divorce or death, this docu-ment protects her and gives her financial support in a time she may need it the most. The ketubah text was first formalized in the first century BCE. Despite under-going several modifications since then, the ketubah text that is used today closely resembles the one created two thousand years ago. It was written in Aramaic, the language of legal and technical matters at the time, but maybe we could say Aramaic is also the language of love as the kebutah is recited during the wedding ceremony.

The earliest known decorated ketubah dates from the tenth century, and illus-trated and illuminated ketubot have been produced by Jews all over the world ever since, in styles reflecting their global cultures. The Jews of Persia made ketubot that simulated floating on a magic Oriental carpet, and North African Jews surrounded the text with the intricate geometrical shapes that also adorned the mosques of their Muslim neighbors. The Italian ketubot of the 17th and 18th centuries are especially elaborate, alive with birds, flowers, signs of the Zodiac, representations of biblical lovers and even pagan gods and goddesses. At the other range of the spectrum, the ketubot of poor European Jews who fled persecu-tion were often little more than irregularly scrawled letters on coarse brown paper; and the rough documents that survived time are more emotionally powerful than illuminated Italian masterpieces preserved in museums.

In this month of love consider an anni-versary ketubah to show that through the roughest and best of times, the lady in your life is more timeless than a box of chocolates. ■

Objects from the Future

by Mickel Yantz, SMMJA Director of Collections and Exhibitions

The historical ketubah is a bind-ing legal document, one which catalogs a husband’s obligations to his wife and makes provisions for her protection in

the event of divorce or her husband’s death. That may not sound as romantic as a dozen roses, but the evolution of this legal document holds more emo-tions behind it than the legal definition may seem. The earliest ketubah dates from circa 440 BCE. Found in Egypt and written on papyrus, this Aramaic docu-ment records the amount of the settlement the groom paid to the father of the bride, and also notes the amount each family contributed to the dowry. The ketubah names the wife as beneficiary in the case of the husband’s death.

Other elements of the ketubah can be traced back to Biblical times. During that period, when a father consented to his daughter’s engagement, he was losing

The earliest known decorated ketubah dates

from the tenth century

above: Ketubah donated by Mr. & Mrs. Ira Sanditen in 1966 in honor of Ira Sanditen

left: Ketubah 1926 Persian. Gift of Jerry & Pat Epstein in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jacob & Dora Miller Roberts.

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Jews and Nike: Just Do It! by Rabbi Charles P. Sherman

One distinctive aspect of Judaism is that it is a religion of action more than verbal affirmations of belief. Jews spend little time discussing what one should believe; we are more concerned with what one does.

The great philosopher Immanuel Kant taught that the moral char-acter of an act depended upon what one’s intention was. Kant believed that you should wait to act until you can do it out of a sense of doing the right moral and ethical thing. Judaism teaches just the opposite−actions speak louder than words. Judaism, like Nike, says: “Just do it!”

When we Jews give tzedakah, we do not recite a bracha because we don’t really care what the giver’s intention is. We care about what the individual is doing, not why. In the Talmud, we are taught that a person should always do the right thing, even for the wrong reason …' for in doing the right thing for an ulterior motive, one may well come to do it for the right motive. Do the right thing! It does not matter what your attitude, feeling, or intention is.

One of the most effective preachers of our time, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg, observes that one of the things Jimmy Carter is renowned for was the statement he made: “I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” Many Christians were aghast at that statement. How could such a religious man feel this way? But for Jews, President Carter’s statement was a non-issue. Who cares what someone thinks in their heart? As Dennis Prager put it at that time: “Within Judaism there is only one organ through which a man can commit adultery …' and it isn’t your heart.” Actions are what count. Actions make us who we are. We do not just say that God created the world …' we keep Shabbat to inculcate that belief within us. We do not just remember that God took us out of Egypt …' we eat matzah and maror to literally taste it.

And that is the purpose of one of the special Sabbaths which precede Pesach on the traditional Jewish calendar - Shabbat Shekalim – February 25 this year. On that Sabbath, we read a Torah portion which describes what Israelites were called upon to do after the incident of the Golden Calf. Our ancestors had sinned; they had turned against God and built a Golden Calf, and now they are called upon to give a half-shekel as a ransom for their souls sullied by sin. But why did they have to give this half-shekel? They had already repented. Moses had appealed to God on their behalf, and God said “I forgive them.” So why are they now called upon to give the half-shekel?

Our commentators explain. Saying they were sorry was not enough. Feeling remorse was not enough. They had to do something to demonstrate their sincerity, so they were told: “Because you were willing to give your money to build a Golden Calf, now to show your regret, you are called upon to give your money for a whole new purpose. In other words, put your money where your mouth is. So, we Jews judge people on their behavior, their acts, their deeds.

Rabbi Wohlberg provides two more recent examples. Richard Nixon said some vile things about Jews. On one of his tapes, when discussing potential judicial nominees, Nixon said: “No Jews – is that clear? We’ve got enough Jews.” Another tape records Nixon saying: “The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.” And in one of his diaries, Harry Truman wrote: “The Jews have no sense of proportion nor do they have any judgement on world affairs. The Jews, I find, are very selfish.”

And yet, going against his advisors, President Truman recognized the State of Israel. And, going against his advisors, President Nixon sent armaments to save Israel from destruction during the Yom Kippur War. So, while we may not like their words, we Jews are very thankful for what Presidents Truman and Nixon did.

Behavior before belief. Acts before words. Walk before talk. JUST DO IT! That is the Jewish way. ■

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above: Five Hundred Dollar Bond, Confederate States of America. Authorized by an Act of Congress, Confederate States of America, August 18, 1861, featuring the picture of Judah Benjamin; bottom right: Benjamin as an English Barrister;bottom left: Judah P Benjamin opposite: Two Dollar Bill of the Confederate States of America picturing Judah Benjamin

by Phil Goldfarb

One of the most misunder-stood figures in American Jewish history is Judah P. Ben-jamin, whom some historians

have called “the brains of the Confederacy,” even as others tried to blame him for the South’s defeat. Benjamin was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Portuguese Jew to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced the religion, and the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America.

Named for his paternal grandfather who performed his brit milah, Judah Philip Benjamin was born on August 11, 1811, in St. Croix of the Danish West Indies. His parents, Philip Benjamin and the former Rebecca de Mendes were Sephardic Jews. Philip and Rebecca had been shopkeepers in London, and emigrated to the West Indies in search of better opportunities. Rebecca’s family had been prominent in Spain before being forced to leave under the Expulsion Edict of 1492.

In 1821 the Benjamin family moved to Charleston, South Carolina which at the time had the largest Jewish community in the United States and a reputation for religious tolerance. Philip was learned in his faith but was unsuccessful in busi-ness while Rebecca earned money for the family by operating a fruit stand near the harbor. In Charleston, Philip was among the founders of the first Reform congrega-tions in the United States, Beth Elohim.

In 1825, at the age of 14, Judah entered Yale College. Although successful as a student at Yale, he left abruptly in 1827 without completing his course of study. A classmate later wrote that Benjamin had been expelled for gambling. Benjamin moved to New Orleans where he became a clerk for a law firm and began to read law studying as an apprentice. Knowledge of French was important in practicing law in Louisiana, as the state’s code is and was based on French and Spanish law. To earn money, he tutored French Creoles in English and in late 1832, at age 21, he was admitted to the bar.

In February 1833, Benjamin strategi-cally married Natalie S. Martin, who was Catholic from a wealthy French Creole aristocratic family which propelled him into financial success and subsequently into a political career. As part of her dowry, she brought with her $3,000 and two female slaves, aged 11 and 16 (together worth about $1,000). The marriage was not a success. By the 1840s, Natalie Benjamin was living in Paris with the couple’s only child, Ninette, whom she raised as a Cath-olic. Benjamin would visit them annually. Benjamin rose rapidly both at the bar and in politics. He served in both houses of the Louisiana legislature prior to his election to the Senate in 1852.

His prominence as a Jew assured that he would come under harsh scrutiny in the Senate as he was embroiled in the political turmoil leading to the Civil War, where he was frequently attacked based on his religious background. Once in a debate on slavery when Senator Ben Wade of Ohio accused Benjamin with being an “Israelite in Egyptian clothing.” With characteristic eloquence, Benjamin replied, “It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the imme-diate Deity, amidst the thundering and lightnings of Mt. Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Great Britain.”

Another irony was that Benjamin was offered to fill a Supreme Court vacancy by both outgoing President Millard Fillmore, as well as incoming President Franklin Pierce in 1853. The newly-elected senator

declined these offers not only because he preferred active politics, but because he could maintain his law practice and substantial income as a senator but could not as a justice. If he would have taken the position, he would have beat Louis Brandeis by 63 years as the first Jew on the Supreme Court!

While an eloquent supporter of slavery, he resigned as senator after Louisiana left the Union in early 1861. Fearful of arrest as a rebel once he left the Senate, Benjamin quickly departed Washington for New Orleans.

When the slave states seceded, Confed-erate President Jefferson Davis appointed Benjamin as Attorney-General, making him the first Jew to hold a Cabinet-level office in an American government and the only Confederate Cabinet member who did not own slaves. Benjamin later served as the Confederacy’s Secretary of War and then Secretary of State. Benjamin also became the only Jew to have his picture on American currency…both the Confed-erate $2 bill, as well as the $100 and $500 Confederate Bond.

As Secretary of State, Benjamin attempted to gain official recognition for the Confederacy by France and the United Kingdom, but his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. To preserve the Confederacy as military defeat made its situation increasingly desperate, he advo-cated freeing and arming the slaves, but his proposals were not accepted until it was too late. When Davis fled the Confed-erate capital of Richmond in early 1865, Benjamin went with him, but left the

presidential party and was successful in escaping, whereas Davis was captured by Union troops.

With the South defeated, Benjamin, fearing that he could never receive a fair trial, escaped to St. Croix to reclaim his British citizenship and fled to England arriving at Southampton on August 30, 1865. He rapidly made a success of his practice as a barrister, so much so that when an 1868 general amnesty made it possible for him to return to America he had no desire to leave England. He even wrote a text commonly called Benjamin on Sales (1868) that is still a classic in the field of British transactional law. Taking Silk (made Queen’s Counsel) in 1872, he became the first Jew and man not born in England, to be so honored.

In his final years, Benjamin suffered from health issues as he developed diabetes and suffered a heart attack in Paris at the end of 1882. A solitary man, estranged from his wife, Benjamin died alone on May 6, 1884. His daughter arranged to have him buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris almost anonymously under the name of “Philippe Benjamin.” Three grandchildren died in childhood and no direct descendants have survived. His grave did not bear his exact identity until 1938, when a plaque was placed by the Paris chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

Phil Goldfarb is the President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Tulsa and can be contacted at: phil.goldfarb@cox.net. ■

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The Righteous Among Us

by Drew Diamond

We enter this New Year on the heels of intensi-fied hate speech and a significant, related surge in hate crimes. In this atmosphere we are faced with the possibility of government authorities

attempting to round up hundreds of thousands or even millions of our Hispanic neighbors and friends and passing regulations to identify and register American Muslims.

In light of this atmosphere, I was recently given the opportunity to conduct security training sessions with our Muslim brothers and sisters. As I prepared for our meeting I found myself reflecting back to 1962 Nuremberg, Germany. As a young Jewish American high school student, this city at this time left an indelible impression on

me. My father, an officer in the US Army, was stationed in Nurem-berg. Our apartment was a few blocks from the Palace of Justice. At the end of WWII, Allied powers selected the Nuremberg Palace of Justice as the location for the International Military Tribunal for its significance as the epicenter of many major events held by the Nazi Party during the Third Reich. Little did I know that over fifty years later I would be connecting Nuremberg to Tulsa as we struggle to envision the possibility of draconian solutions to a perceived threat to our “homeland” by ethnic and religious minorities.

The Nuremberg Laws were anti-Jewish statutes enacted by Germany on September 15, 1935. These statutes set the stage for mandatory registration of all Jews and the forcing of Jews to wear a yellow Star of David. These and hundreds of similar laws and restrictions were implemented to identify, ostracize, and expel Jews from German society. Millions of Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe would be identified and ultimately over six million would perish at the hands of the Nazis. However, during the course of the ensuing Holocaust, a small number of courageous people emerged and risked their lives to save Jews and others from a terrible fate. They would come to be known as the Righteous Among the Nations.

As Tulsa has declared itself a Compassionate Community committed to protecting the human rights and dignity of all people, we all have the capacity to be counted among the righteous. Our Compassionate Community must not allow its resources to be used in support of dangerous and destructive actions.

We have a choice when confronted with wrongdoing: do nothing and leave a legacy of regret and shame, or act and be valued among those who do the right thing. ■

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