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Thrilling Adventures Opportunities No Longer Limited For Religious Jews wanted to do something special and you can only go to Iceland during the summer months,” said Gabi Hirsch, trip coordinator. “From the incredible feedThe desire to explore the world is universal. How- back we got from the Kilimanjaro trek we knew peoever, the difficulty of finding kosher food and a place ple were up for a challenge – and kosher was a huge to pray has limited wanderlust for religious Jews. perk.” Liane Pritkin from Manhattan is looking for an opWith the influx of kosher travel options there is no longer an excuse to stay away from the most far-flung portunity to go out of her comfort zone and signed up corners of the earth. From Iceland to Zambia, there for the fire and ice challenge. “I’m most excited about seeing glaciers, testing my physare new ways for Jews to travel ical limits and being off the grid in style and maintain their relifor a few days in an untouched gious standards. part of the world,” Pritkin said. Winning maximum points for She also feels compelled to do both adventure and altruism are something useful with her time. those undertaking extreme va“I am raising money to support cations while being sponsored to the people whose life scripts raise money for charity. Making didn’t go the way they expected. the news earlier this year were It’s a universal sentiment, one I the intrepid group that climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money think most people can relate to. I for Israeli charity Shalva. A core certainly can.” part of its fundraising strategy Another participant, Michael is known as Shalva ChallengCharish, made aliyah from Tees – bi-annual, high-thrill fundaneck in 2006 and now lives in raising sport adventures. The Chashmonaim. An experienced non-profit provides services for mountain biker, Charish wants physically and mentally chalto push his endurance limits. lenged children in Israel. Shal“I decided to participate in the va Challenges dare participants challenge to support a wonderto move beyond their physical ful organization, while doing limits just as Shalva’s children something I love, in a place of move beyond theirs. The October A participant in the Shalva Mt. Kili- awesome natural beauty that I 2015 climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro, manjaro climb earlier this year. would likely never visit on my the tallest free-standing mounown,” Charish said. tain in the world, was replete with kosher food and For those who are looking for a slightly less high an eruv on Shabbos. impact travel experience, there are now numerous After the success of the Mt. Kilimanjaro, Shalva is kosher travel companies that offer the most exotic lonow challenging participants to a 3-day trek or 4-day bike ride through the volcanic regions in Iceland. “We Continued on p.S3 By Raizel Druxman

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Druxman Continued from p.S2 cations with the highest standards in kashrut. Many of the kosher traveling companies were born from a personal quest. “We love traveling, and as shomer mitzvot Jews, we never wanted to feel like we were traveling as second class citizens,” explained Eric Goldberg of Naomi Boutique Kosher Tours. Goldberg knows that tasting the local cuisine is a huge part of the cultural experience for kosher travelers. “To make sure our guests eat the best of the local cuisine, we hire a top local chef to cook all the meals and bring a mashgiach to ensure the highest standards of kashrut,” Goldberg explained. Goldberg also hosts his guests at the best hotels with the best service. The first time a Michelin restaurant ever went kosher was with Noami Boutique Kosher Tours in Provence, France. “I want my guests to have the same experience as non-kosher guests,” Goldberg said. “When you’re with us on Shabbos, you have candles, wine on the table and chicken soup, but it has the flavor of the place you’re at.” Making a kiddush Hashem is essential for Goldberg. “I hope to counter some of the negative press that Jews are getting around the world and show how Jews can and should be,” Goldberg said. Because he and his guest are easily spotted as religious Jews, other Jewish hotel guests often come over to them and ask, “How can you eat here?” In Zambia, a 90-year-old woman and her daughter approached them. “We invited them to join us for Friday night dinner and it turned out that she is a Yiddish singer. She and her daughter sang to us in Yiddish with zebras and giraffes in the background,” Goldberg said. Like other travel companies, David Wallace of Eddie’s Kosher Travel chooses exotic locations, but the most rewarding part for Wallace is the connections. “Nowadays people live all over the world so it’s a window of opportunity for older parents to spend time with their family,” Wallace said. “It’s not just about the business, but about enriching people’s lives.”

Wallace is on a constant quest to open up new travel opportunities to the Jewish community. This May they are taking guests on a Norwegian Fjords Cruise. “My wife calls the Fjords the Gan Eden of the world,” Wallace said. “Just Google a picture and you’ll understand why.” Further off the beaten path, they are leading 25 people on a Scottish whiskey tour this summer. Sitting with friends around the Shabbos table inspired this tour. “A lot of my friends travel for work and always bring back a different bottle of whiskey to share,” Wallace explained. “I saw that the interest in the drink is phenomenal.” Above all, nature inspires their work. “God gave us an incredible world and He wants us to go visit and become familiar with it,” Wallace said. “We facilitate that match between people who want to travel but don’t know how.” Wallace told a story that inspired him. “Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch used to go to the Swiss Alps. People would ask him why he went. He replied, ‘I’m going to come to Gan Eden and God is going to say, ‘How did you not go see the alps? I created them for you.’ ” Like the other kosher travel operators, Zev Lapian from didn’t anticipate getting into the industry. “While getting my masters in New York I needed to earn money,” Lapian explained. “Atlas International Tours gave me my first job in travel business, but what kept me was my guests.” Lapian is moved by connections people make on his trip brought together by the joint experience of journeying into the unknown. “Guests come from all walks of religious life and they sit on the same bus and enjoy the tour,” Lapian admired. “They get on very well with each other and respect each other’s beliefs. That’s how things should be.” It is amazing that the ties that join us at members of the Jewish community are only strengthened by traveling to far-flung destinations. Gaby Hirsh recounts that the group which climbed Mt Kilimanjaro together became so close that when one of he group get married in Israel, a number of the other group members joined him to climb Masada on the way to his chupah.

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A Memorable Excursion

A Berachah In Nissan By Adina Hershberg

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It definitely was not what my chiropractor would have prescribed. What was a woman, who had almost reached the half-century mark and mother of seven, doing on a tractoron (a four-wheel dirt bike) hanging on for dear life as mud was sprayed from all directions onto her once blue clothes? Let me drive in reverse for a bit and explain. Several times over the years, my husband Abe had proposed a plan to beat the Pesach rush and go on a family vacation the week before Pesach. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But frankly, I’m the one in charge of Pesach cleaning and the idea of going away for three days the week before Pesach is pure, unadulterated pressure! True, in theory, a family vacation was a good incentive for the seven Hershberg kids to clean their rooms before the vacation, but the reality was different. In the end we always go through with the vacation, and we don’t leave some kids behind in their partially cleaned rooms. We decided to go to the upper Galilee. Deciding on an itinerary with eight individuals of varying ages (our almost 13-year-old Devorah Elianna would not be joining us) was no small feat. Abe managed to plan an itinerary that would have something for everyone: ice skating, hiking down a mountain to the Achziv stream, stopping at various kivrei tzaddikim and riding on the tractoronim. After the hike down to the Achziv stream, we traveled to Moshav Sufsafa which is home to the tractoronim. When I had imagined what a tractoron would look like, I imagined a vehicle with seats and sides going around the passenger compartment. It was more like a 4-wheel motorcycle. There were some tractorons built for one person and others supposedly for a driver and one passenger who sits behind. (Having been the passenger on a tractoron built-for-two, I can attest that it was built for one and a quarter people.) Abe asked me if I wanted to drive a tractoron. I thought to myself, “Drive one. I don’t think that I even want to be on one!” I answered, “No, I don’t want to drive one. I’ll go with someone else.” If our 8-year-old son was willing to ride on one, then his 49-and-a-half-year-old mother certainly should have the guts to ride on one. The trepidation and fear that swam swiftly through my body was not calmed by the fact that three out of the four Hershberg drivers were relatively new drivers. But they all appeared calm, self-assured and eager for the adventure. I noticed a couple putting on yellow plastic coats. The manager asked if we were also interested. I figured that they would protect our coats and so I replied in the affirmative While the yellow windbreakers were optional, helmets were not. In our gear, we would certainly not have made even the back page of a fashion magazine. In addition to two guides, our group consisted of the aforementioned couple and eight Hershbergs. We were told that we would be going on a family excursion for one hour. That sounded tame. Since most of us had not said the once a year recited blessing on blooming fruit trees that one sees in the month of Nissan, I thought that perhaps we could recite this blessing during the tractoron ride. I expressed my desire to one of the guides. The not religious-looking guide said, “It’s called birchat ha’ilanot, right?” Perhaps my request had sparked a pleasant memory for him. The seven tractoronim were put in a line by our guides, and we were told to climb on. Like Søren Kierkegaard I had to have a “leap of faith.” With a prayer to Hashem that we should all come out unscathed, I climbed on behind my fearless husband. The guides went from one tractoron to the next and explained how to drive it. Since I am not me-

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Hershberg Continued from p.S4 chanically inclined (though I know what a hammer and a screwdriver are), I did not chop the explanation. Baruch Hashem, Abe understood the quick and sparse instructions. With butterflies flying freely in my stomach, we were off. The two guides stopped traffic on the highway as we thundered across the road to the field across from Moshav Sufsafa. I had two options of where to hold on. There were metal bars on the sides of the seat and there were long vertical bars a little behind my arms. Neither were comfortable options. The helmet took quite a beating. As we zipped over the rocks in the field my head went clunk, clunk against the metal bars that were supposedly a back rest. I wondered how my brains would take the rattling. I couldn’t imagine how I would survive the one-hour torture. There wasn’t any part of my body that was having a pleasant time. I couldn’t believe that Abe had paid top shekel for this torture. At one point, one of the guides stopped his tractoron because our youngest child was crying. His head was getting banged on the metal bars behind him. I switched positions with him. He sat behind Abe and I sat behind Tzivia Bracha. She surprised me with her skillful driving. She seemed like a natural. She took the “puddles” at a zoom. We became soaked with muddy water. We drove through a cow pasture with cows on our left and cows on our right. I now had a cow’s eye view of nature. One of them was so close that I could have reached out and touched its tail. But I couldn’t because I was, as you remember, hanging on for dear life. I even had a runny nose, but couldn’t take out a tissue because that meant letting go.

At one point when we were passing a field with blooming trees with white blossoms, the guide at the front of the line slowed down and stopped. He approached the tractoron I was on and said that we could make the berachah. My hands were muddy and I tried to wipe off some of the mud. I took out my pocket siddur and turned to the berachah. I recited it out loud and the guide passed the siddur from tractoron to tractoron. That spiritual moment ended and we continued on. The blessing on blossoming fruit trees is said during the month of Nissan because it is the time that the trees start showing some life after the bleak winter. But why don’t we wait to make the blessing when the trees are laden with delicious fruit? The former Bostoner Rebbe, may his memory be for a blessing, explained that reciting the blessing over a tree laden with fruit is far too late. We must recognize G-d’s blessings even when they are not easy to see. Being Jewish is all about the potential within us and drawing out that potential. Finally we crossed the finish line! I was thrilled. Now I could open up my clenched hands. Now I could blow my nose. Now I didn’t have to fear having my new eyeglasses fly off. My body ached and my body was begging for a chiropractic adjustment. I now understood why Abe had paid the high fee to take the family on the tractoron ride. It was something he had wanted to do for a long time. In the future if someone suggests that I go on a tractoron ride I can respond, “Been there. Done that.” As far as birchat ha’ilanot is concerned, I hope to make this annual beracha for many years to come. But instead of reciting the berachah from a high perch on a tractoron, I hope to recite the berachah while standing firmly on the ground that Hashem promised to our forefathers. Adina Hershberg may be reached at ahershberg@ gmail.com.

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Friday, April 22, 2016

Maximize Your Fun At Amusement Parks This Chol Hamoed And Spring

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you find the same tickets for less, we’ll match it and discount your tickets by an additional $5,” says Konokov. “We also have a season special for Universal Studios for families that are visiting for Pesach.” Rabbi Konokov also recommends getting discounted tickets for any Florida theme park through timeshares, if you can spare 90-120 minutes at a mandatory presentation: “I’ve seen people get up to half-off per ticket per person by getting their tickets through timeshares, and sometimes they even offer free tickets. It depends on the place.” The Chabad of Orlando’s price-matching magic has also been promoted on DansDeals, a Jewish blog advertising the latest, largest deals on everything from plane and cruise tickets to ice cream shops, immediately as they become available. By simply searching your desired Florida or NYC Metro Area theme or amusement park on the blog, you will find pages of deals. The only catch is that the deals go as quickly as they come. For theme park mavens, the Orlando FlexTicket is the way to go. A purchase provides unlimited admission for 14 consecutive days to SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica, Universal Studios, Wet N’ Wild Water Park and Universal’s Island of Adventures. The ticket is

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Schafler Continued from p.S6 flexible and personalized: spend as long and as many days as you prefer in whichever park you choose, alternate between parks during the day, or visit all of the parks and return to your favorites. The price is $345 for people over the age of nine, and $330 for children under the age of nine. Or purchase FlexTicket Plus, which throws in Busch Gardens in Tampa and comes with free shuttles between Orlando and Tampa. The ticket also enables pay-once parking, even if visiting other parks that same day. All you have to do is save the receipt (which isn’t easy if you’re running around a theme park all day with your kids). The FlexTicket gives substantial savings on the gate rate of each individual park, as well as many benefits not available when buying tickets at the gate or even

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directly from the park online. If youCHAG SAMEACH! have older kids, be on the lookout for twilight or sunset tickets. These tickets offer admisWarmest Wishes For a Very  sion from five in the afternoon until around 10:00 in Happy and Healthy Passover  the evening, depending on the park. These hours are less populated, with reduced ticket prices. For example, a single full-day ticket on the Hershey Park website costs $62.25 for ages 9-54, whereas their sunset ticket costs only $29.95. An extra perk is that at night the parks often have special surprises, like Disney Parks’s hallmark night-time fireworks after 8 p.m., or Six Flags, where summer nights after 8:30 p.m. feature performances by entertainers varying from singers to acrobats. Theme parks can be a dream come true for the kids, but the lines can be a nightmare. One solution is Flash Pass, a device that lets you visit a ride, reserve   your place, and then receive a notification when it’s yourAssemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz  turn, for more time to explore the park and less time waiting on line. You’ll receive envious glances 1800 Sheepshead Bay Road  as you show up, skip the line, and enter through the Flash Pass entrance. At Disney Parks, Fast Passes Brooklyn, NY 11235  come free with purchase, and allow advance booking (718) 743‐4078  of your choice attractions. Just arrive at the [email protected]   ahead tion at the designated time and find yourself of other guests in the regular standby line. You can

make scheduled reservations for each ride as early as 30 days before you arrive, or up to 60 days before check-in if you have a Walt Disney Resort package. Six Flags Great Adventure and Safari, located in Jackson, N.J., offers Flash Passes in regular, gold and platinum, the regular being the most affordable of the three, pricing at an average of $30 per pass. The regular pass offers the same amount of waiting time as those without Flash Passes, but you get to skip standing on the lines and instead can use that time for other activities. If the anticipated wait is one hour to ride a coaster, your reservation time will be in one hour. The Flash Pass virtual place-hold allows you to roam the park and squeeze in other rides before returning to the coaster at the appointed time. Flash Passes are by no means a cheap option, but if you want to take on a theme park visit and do it right, these passes make for an agony-free, productive day. Across the board, the cheapest way to buy tickets is online, so your desktop or smart-phone can be your gateway to great deals. If you are quick to the draw and keep an eye out, Six Flags, Adventure Land and SeaWorld and other parks often post ticket flashsales on their Facebook page or Twitter that only last for a day or a few hours at a time. While at the parks, your smart-phone can guide you: Almost all parks have apps that provide up-to-the-minute estimates on ride wait times, daily schedules of special shows and attractions, as well as a park GPS maps directing you to restaurants, bathrooms, concession stands and gift shops. Starving families don’t make for happy adventurers. Hershey Park, located in Hershey, Penn., is a favorite for the kosher palate on the run. Kosher Mart, a Stark-K certified food concession stand is located at the very front of Hershey, selling everything from sushi to hot dogs. For those who prefer a sit down meal after a long day surrounded by chocolate, the park is only a 20-minute drive from Harrisburg, home

to a restaurant called The Café in the Jewish Home of Harrisburg, under the supervision of Rabbi Dr. Chaim Schertz. At Six Flags, there is a fleishig stand called Oasis Café, under the hashgacha of Rabbi Teitz of Elizabeth, N.J. Especially since the park does not allow outside food, the Café along with a kosher Ben and Jerry’s and Dippin’ Dots will likely be the source for kosher food fare during the day. The café also sells Kosher for Pesach food, and during sukkot, a sukkah is available as well. Disney Parks provide relatively plentiful options for kosher food. In each park, under the Hashgacha of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of South Florida, kosher meals are offered without advance request in the following locations at each park: Animal Kingdom: Pizzafari, Hollywood Studios: ABC Commissary, Epcot: Liberty Inn, and at Magic Kingdom: Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café. At SeaWorld and Universal Parks, there is no kosher food available inside of the park. However, only a half-mile away is the Lower East Side Glatt Kosher Restaurant, which sells boxed breakfasts, lunches and dinners. For a standard fee of $25 they deliver to any park in Orlando. The restaurant also features an on-site shul. When is the best time to go? Undercover Tourist, an Orlando tourist discount website, features a crowd calendar for the Disney and Universal parks and marks each day of every month of the year either green as calm, yellow as neutral, or red as particularly hectic. “The middle of April is the most neutral. The end tends to become much more crowded,” noted Ally, a representative at Undercover Tourist’s 24/7 hotline. “May is a very mild month. Generally people don’t start piling in again heavily until June, where it’s packed throughout the month. The very end of august is probably one of the best times to go. January is heavily packed till around the 16th and 17th.” As the crowd calendar and Ally report, “Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays seem to be the most crowded of days; I’m not sure exactly why.” Luckily, this year, Chol Hamoed Pesach does not fall out during spring break, like it regularly does, “so I predict parks everywhere won’t be as jam-packed this year,” says Rabbi Konokov. At Six Flags Great Adventure, “the busiest time is March through April, as the park opens in late March or early April. Spring Break is typically the most packed time,” says a representative from Six Flags, “and I know Memorial Day weekend is always packed. Crowds do tend to pick up a bit on Fridays, with the onset of the weekend, so weekdays are probably your best bet.” When it comes to getting the most out of these manic adventure parks, the early bird catches the worm; “the best way to retain some elbow-room is by arriving early in the day, meaning when the gate is about to open,” says Carlo, a representative from Central Florida’s Visitor Information Center. “And if you can’t get there early, the second best time to come is around noon when everyone sits down for lunch, or around dinner time, when people sit down to eat again or are just too tired and leave.” With all this information, you are now prepared for a great, memorable, family experience.

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New-York Historical Society Traces Rise Of Anti-Semitism In Germany At a time of continuing anti-Semitic propaganda and attacks against Jewish communities in Europe and elsewhere, the New-York Historical Society will present a powerful exhibition that examines the rise of a culture of hatred. On view through July 31, Anti-Semitism 1919–1939 traces the gradual and deliberate indoctrination of German citizens into active hatred of Jews through the ubiquitous words and images seen daily. The exhibition features more than 50 objects dating from the Interwar years, drawn from the collection of The Museum of World War II in Boston. Included will be examples of anti-Semitic books and signs, announcements of mass meetings that excluded Jews, the original outline of a 1939 speech by Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag about the “Jewish Question,” and a printing of the Nuremberg Laws denying Jews the basic rights of citizens that laid the legal foundation for the Holocaust. Many objects on display will be disturbing to view, but they serve to convey the dangers of ignoring or discounting anti-Semitic discourse and underestimating the impact of hateful propaganda and religious intolerance more generally – a lesson of particular importance for the 200,000 New York City public school students who learn history with New-York Historical each year. The exhibition will also help explain the connection between anti-Semitism in Europe and the history of New York City and America, as those who fled Nazism deeply impacted American cultural, educational, and scientific institutions. “Anti-Semitism is among the most harrowing topics of 20th-century history,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO, New-York Historical Society. “While it is painful to see artifacts from a culture of hatred, understanding how such a horrifying moment in history developed is fundamental to helping us better grasp current events. The moral questions raised by the rise of Nazism in Germany transcend geographical and temporal boundaries, and it is the responsibility of institutions like ours to educate and inspire contemporary audiences to reflect on the roles and responsibilities of individuals, organizations, and nations when confronted with injustice. In addition, anti-Semitism is essential to the history of our city, as New York was so drastically changed by the influx of Europeans escaping Nazism. ”

Allied Powers, and the collapse of its economy. As the Nazi Party rose to power, it began a long campaign of indoctrinating German citizens with violent messages of hate through the widespread dissemination of anti-Semitic propaganda. After consolidating its rule, it passed the Nuremberg Laws, systematically codifying anti-Semitism. Among these measures was the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, forbidding marriages and extramarital relations between Jews and non-Jews. In a 1938–39 questionnaire on view in the exhibition, Helga Fräenkel sought permission to marry the father of her children. The request was denied because she was Jewish. The Nazi leadership passed increasingly harsh anti-Semitic laws that restricted the movement and lives of Jews. As shown through signs on view in the exhibi-

tion, Jews were forbidden to use the same park benches as their fellow German citizens who had been defined as “Aryans” and eventually were forbidden altogether from entering parks. These actions normalized the steadily mounting physical violence against Jews and destruction of their property, leading to their forced relocation to concentration and death camps, and ultimately to Hitler’s “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Problem” – the murder of six million European Jews. Under the Nazi Regime, anti-Semitism penetrated every aspect of life, and even children’s books were not immune from its reach. Never Trust a Fox on the Green Heath and Never Trust a Jew by His Oath (1936) was an anti-Semitic children’s book printed by Julius Stre-

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Historical Background of the Exhibition Long before Adolf Hitler rose to power, anti-Semitism plagued Europe. In Germany, the punitive 1919 peace agreement ending World War I exacerbated existing prejudices. Some people began to blame the Bolsheviks and Jews for Germany’s forced demilitarization, its exorbitant reparations payments to the victorious

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Anti-Semitism Continued from p.9 icher’s publishing house. The author, Elvira Bauer, was 21 when she wrote this book. In The Jew as Destroyer of the Race (1934), one of the most virulent anti-Semitic books printed, “Aryan” women were warned about the dangers of associating with Jews. Both of these books will be on view in the exhibition. Exhibition Publication & Public Programming The exhibition is accompanied by a companion book with a foreword by Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO, NewYork Historical Society. To help visitors understand the exhibition and share their feelings about the content of the show, New-York Historical has developed educational and public programs to accompany the exhibition. Visiting middle and high school students will split their time in the gallery, where they will trace the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, and the classroom, where they will use items from the Library collection to follow the parallel rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and its ramifications. New-York Historical is also

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partnering with Facing History and Ourselves, an international educational and professional development organization, on a full-day workshop for teachers on April 19. On Thursday, May 26, Abraham Foxman, world-renowned as a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism, bigotry, and discrimination, will speak at New-York Historical about the lessons he’s learned from 50 years of fighting anti-Semitism and hate speech. As part of New-York Historical’s “Justice in Film” series, Forbidden Games (1952), a French film that follows a young girl orphaned by Nazi airstrikes, and Europa Europa (1990), a German film about a Jewish boy posing as a German orphan in WWII Europe, will be shown this spring. Anti-Semitism 1919–1939 is made possible by support provided by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Charina Endowment Fund, the Barbara K. and Ira A. Lipman Family, Ed and Sandy Meyer, Ann and Andrew Tisch, Lori and Mark Fife, Cheryl and Glen Lewy, Pam and Scott Schafler, the David Berg Foundation, Norman S. Benzaquen, Carol and Roger Einiger, Martin and Ahuva Gross, Patti Askwith Kenner, Ruth and Sid Lapidus, Martin Lewis and Diane Brandt, Sue Ann Weinberg and Tamar J. Weiss.

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How About Some Chesed During Your Outing? By Yehuda Barkai While on family vacations, parents are often looking for fun ways to instill strong values in their children or to bring meaning to a special occasion.

And for those visiting Israel, a visit to Pantry Packers in Jerusalem is designed for just that purpose. This dry-food packaging program is an initiative of Colel Chabad, a charitable arm of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and Israel’s longest-running charitable and social services organization. Founded by the first Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1788, Colel Chabad runs a network of programs to help the needy, widows and their families and the elderly. By creating an family-friendly and fun experience out of the food packag-

ing, Pantry Packers has attracted tens of thousands of participants – families, teen groups, adult missions visiting Israel – and opened their eyes to the need for helping Israel’s poor. The program is an initiative of Chabad’s Rabbi Menachem Traxler, Texas born and bred, who moved to Israel over a decade ago. Rabbi Traxler conceived of the concept of Pantry Packers as a way to engage tourists in helping Israel’s needy and allowing them to add a sense of giving to their times away from home. “For many people coming to Israel, finding a way to give back is an important part of their visit. Pantry Packers can be a couple of hours of work and fun that truly benefits others,” he said. “Many of our groups are here to celebrate a family simcha or just a vacation so our program allows them to add a sense of meaning to the overall Israel experience.” Once inside the one-story warehouse located just outside the Talpiyot industrial district, the Pantry Packers experience begins with a short video and explanation. The introduction allows guests to learn about the poverty

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between the packers, with appropriate opportunities available for children as Continued from p.S14 young as four. “We discovered that we can keep that so many Israelis experience on a costs down significantly if we packaged daily basis and how the Pantry Pack- the food items ourselves – and be able ers visit will directly help those in to provide for even more people with need. Guests are then outfitted with food and supplies for the same price,” said Traxler. “We purchase the product in bulk directly from the suppliers and utilize our network of volunteers from around the world to prepare individual and family size bags for distribution in our monthly and weekly food packages.” Each Pantry Packer group of visitors receives personalized stickers with the name of the group which are Young visitors help package food for the needy in Is- then affixed on the rael. packages so that the (Courtesy Pantry Packers) recipient can be aware of the kindness which hairnets, aprons and gloves to protect is behind the food they are receiving. the safety of the food preparation pro- “It’s a great feeling for those receiving cess, and taken into the connected food food packages to know that someone packing and sealing facility. They then from somewhere, often on the other side undergo a brief tutorial where visitors of the world, is thinking about you and learn how to operate the basic machin- wanting to help,” added Traxler. Individual and group entrance to ery and rules of safety are stressed. The items packaged at Pantry Pantry Packers is completely free of Packers are primarily dried food sta- charge, although guests are respectfulples with longer shelf lives like rice, ly encouraged to help financially supchick peas or peas. Via an assembly port the work of the organization so as line system, the products are taken and to offset the very substantial food purindividually labeled, packaged, sealed, chase and distribution costs. Visits must be booked in advance. boxed and prepared for shipment to the Colel Chabad distribution centers To arrange for a groups or family visit and soup kitchens around the coun- to Pantry Packers, visit www.pantryJewish Press_4_9375x7.pdf 1/11/16 6:32 PM packers.org. try. Roles along the line are 1divided

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Museum Unveils Rarely Seen Work By Artist Reginald Marsh

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The Museum of the City of New York is featuring From Ship to Shore: Reginald Marsh & The

U.S. Custom House Murals, a glimpse at rarely seen works from the celebrated American painter known for bringing city scenes to life from the beaches of Coney Island to the burlesque stage and, of course, the United States Custom House. The installation, which features works from the Museum’s collection that have not been viewed in over 20 years, includes a photo of the Custom House created by architect Cass Gilbert, a planning sketch by Marsh, and eight masterful watercolor and graphite paintings. From Ship to Shore: Reginald Marsh & The U.S. Custom House Murals opened March 25 runs through Monday, May 30. In 1937, Reginald Marsh was selected for a commissioned series of murals for the rotunda of the United States Custom House as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Treasury Relief Art Program, which was dedicated to the embellishing of public

buildings. From Ship to Shore offers a striking ode to the beauty of New York Harbor and serves as a window into a time of New York City’s history fueled by public grandeur and beautification projects, and when art was used to economically and esthetically lift the country out of the Great Depression. “The ideas behind the commission that made Marsh’s Custom House Murals possible demonstrate how art can serve the public,” said Whitney Donhauser, director of the Museum of the City of New York. “These striking works not only showcase the iconic beauty of New York Harbor and celebrate the integral role it has played in our city’s history, but also serve to inspire discussion about the place fine art has in the public sphere, particularly in civic buildings.”

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