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Hello Hal,
Welcome to the FJMC New York Metro Region Newsletter.
In this issue, you will find the FJMC Convention, club announcements, upcoming affinity webinars, insightful articles on men's health, and exciting events happening around the region, important FJMC programs, and the latest news within the Jewish Community and around the globe.
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Tevye: "A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck."
- Chaim Topol, Israeli Actor
September 9, 1935, - March 8, 2023
Topol, the Israeli actor who took on the role of the patriarch Tevye, the soulful shtetl milkman at the center of “Fiddler on the Roof,” in his late 20s and reprised the role for decades, died on Thursday, March 8 at his home in Tel Aviv. He was 87.
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FEDERATION OF JEWISH MEN'S CLUBS
BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
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The NY Metro Region is now offering a $500 stipend to all NY Metro 2023 Convention attendees. | |
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Steven Mandel MD is Clinical Professor of Neurology at Hofstra/Northwell and adjunct Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College. He is a Member of Park Avenue Synagogue and Sutton Place Synagogue. His parents immigrated from Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 1930’s and settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Click here to read Steven's entire bio!
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Re-engage with your Jewish traditions. It's not lost. Be part of an organization that encourages community, programming and shares information with a Jewish twist. Reconnect with thousands of other Jewish men throughout the country stories, activities, traditions of Jewish life in communities.
Now is your opportunity to join as an individual member and receive the benefits - newsletters, upcoming events, community activity, invitations to our retreats, Convention, Leadership Development programs etc.
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The FJMC is now offering
Individual Membership
for a very low $36 a year!
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Tombstones painted with green graffiti at the Oestre Kirkegaard Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark. | |
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Anti-Jewish harassment occurred in 94 countries in 2020, up from earlier years.
(Pew Research Center) — Jewish people were the targets of harassment in 94 countries in 2020, with incidents ranging from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the COVID-19 pandemic...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Michael Epstein, highlighted in the bottom row, and Abe Rosenberg, highlighted in the top row, pictured in their classroom in a displaced person's camp in 1947. The two were reconnected by a chance encounter 76 years later. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Abraham Rosenberg) | |
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These Holocaust survivors were once classmates in a DP camp. They just reunited after 76 years.
(New York Jewish Week) — The last time Michael Epstein, 87, and Abe Rosenberg, 82, were in the same room, they were in Germany, studying in a classroom in a displaced person’s camp in Bavaria after the Holocaust...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Virtual Program
Sunday, April 16 at 7pm
My Conversations with Eli Wiesel:
Lessons Learned for our World Today
presented by Marvin Kalb, Distinguished Journalist
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145 organizations have already purchased candles to Share Light for Remembrance on Yom HaShoah 2023. Order your Shoah Yellow Candles.
The last day to order Candles is Friday, March 24, 2023
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Order Shoah Yellow Candles now.
Light on Erev Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Monday, April 17, 2023
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Attention - All Golf Members
...and foursomes
WIN A DREAM GOLF TRIP!
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Affinity Groups & Webinars | |
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Sports Affinity Group
presents:
Author Jonathan Eig
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
at 8:00 PM ET
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Jonathan Eig is the Author of five books three of them New York Times best sellers. Ken Burns calls him a "master storyteller." Joyce Carol Oates referred to his book, Ali: A life, as "an epic of a biography."
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Join us for Yiddish Lite!
Beginner's Yiddish Group
Alternate Tuesday Evenings
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
at 8pm ET
Hosted by Al Davis
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You do not need to be an FJMC member to join.
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Inside the Mental Health Retreat Where NFL Players Go to Heal
Joe Hawley quit the NFL and became a spiritual jock healer. He leads America’s toughest athletes into the wild to confront their fear, shame, and anger. Here’s what happens to those brave enough to sign up...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Howard and Lottie Marcus.
Photo: Courtesy Ellen Marcus
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Documentary About German Jewish Couple Who Gave Largest Donation to Israel in History to Premiere in NY
Premiering in New York is a documentary about a German Jewish couple whose $500 million gift to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for the advancement of water technology remains the single-largest charitable donation made to Israel in its history, according to the university...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Avi Miller, right, ran Israel Baseball's Twitter account during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. (Left: Screenshot from Twitter, Right: Courtesy) | |
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Israel struck out at the World Baseball Classic, but the team’s Twitter account was a hit
(JTA) — Many fans were despairing as Team Israel trailed Puerto Rico 6-0 in the World Baseball Classic last week, but the team’s Twitter account had a different message. “We will never give up,” the account tweeted. “After all, Moses was once a basket case...”
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Eddie Kaye Thomas and Katie Holmes play writer Abe Hausman and actress Julia Cheever, who strike up a friendship via email correspondence in the new play "The Wanderers." (Joan Marcus) | |
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s online flirtation with Natalie Portman inspires a new play
(New York Jewish Week) — When Jewish literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss divorced in 2014 — amid rumors that he was in love with his longtime friend Natalie Portman — it captivated the nation...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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A DJ performs at the opening weekend of Silo, a new Jewish-owned club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Courtesy/Annie Forrest) | |
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A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn
(New York Jewish Week) — On a recent Saturday at Silo, a new dance club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, an aerialist was dangling above the crowd, doing flips on a hula hoop in front of hundreds of people, while hypnotic house music boomed through the venue’s world-class sound system. It was 1 a.m. and the party was just getting started...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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- The early bird deadline for Torch Award applications is fast approaching. Submit by March 15th to stay ahead and receive extra credit! We strongly encourage you to please submit your novel program and event ideas in any one of over 20 available and varied categories.
- Don't fret as the application is easy to complete! And there is no limit as to how many applications your club can submit and be awarded! Final Deadline to submit is April 27th.
- Torch Awards will be proudly presented at the FJMC International Convention June 29- July 2nd in beautiful and historic Philadelphia! And prominently featured to all at the International Convention Program Fair!
- Shine the spotlight on your Men's Club to our entire FJMC Community!
- And sharing on your novel and creative programs and events strongly benefits all of our FJMC clubs for the future!
Please visit the Torch Awards site at:
https://fjmc.org/torch-awards-overview
to learn more and submit.
And of course reach out to us for any support needed.
Thank you and in brotherhood,
Torch Award Co-Chairs:
Jonathan Brody
2023 Torch Award Co-Chair
Jbrody627@gmail.com
917-687-4069
Lester Shapiro
2023 Torch Award Co-Chair
lestershapiro@marfjmc.org
610-453-3581
Stephen Sturman
2023 Torch Award Co-Chair
hairman@hairman.net
845-313-0248
Alan Pressman
2023 Torch Award Judging Committee Chair
Ampress1@optonline.net
914-263-5432
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Review: Lifestyle Medicine - Northwell Health Collaboration
On Sunday, March 19, Northwell Health Katz Institute for Women's Health in collaboration with Temple Beth El of Cedarhurst Men's Club, Congregation Sons of Israel, Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre, Temple Israel of Lawrence, Temple Hillel, Congregation Shaaray Shalom, The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC presented Lifestyle Medicine with guest speaker Dr. Penny Stern.
Approximately 60 people attended this zoom event. Milton Lipitz, Club President of Beth El Men's Club in Cedarhurst, NY organized the special event. In addition to being a Club President, Milton is an FJMC Board of Directors Member representing the NY Metro Region.
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Cast members, Robert Cohen, New York Regional Past President and Stu Haimes, Regional VP had featured roles in Guys and Dolls. | |
Plainview Jewish Center
Patio Players present:
March 2023 Production
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Temple Beth El of Cedarhurst
46 Locust Avenue, Cedarhurst, NY
Phone: 516-569-2700
office@templebethelofcedarhurst.org
Men's Club Showing Four Academy Award Winning Films
From the Simon Wiesenthal Center
On selected Mondays
from January through April
All Films will be on ZOOM ONLY
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Travel vlogger Drew Binsky, left, wears Hasidic garb in a promotional still for his latest video, about the Hasidic Jewish communities of Brooklyn. | |
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YouTuber Drew Binsky makes a travel video about Hasidic Brooklyn
(New York Jewish Week) — For eight years now, vlogger Drew Binsky has made a living traveling the world, creating content that aims to lift the curtains on remote communities for his 3.6 million YouTube subscribers...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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“I’m very, very happy for that, [but] I’m not focusing on getting Michelin stars,” Jerusalem-born Chef Eyal Shani told the New York Jewish Week. | |
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With his New York restaurant Shmoné, Israeli chef Eyal Shani earns his first Michelin nod
(New York Jewish Week) — Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani, who currently boasts 40 restaurants worldwide, became a sensation on these shores when he opened Miznon in 2018 at Chelsea Market. There, he introduced New Yorkers to a new style of Mediterranean street food that eclipsed the usual falafel, hummus and shawarma offerings. Locals and tourists alike lined up to devour Shani’s smashed potatoes, inventive pita creations and now-iconic whole roasted cauliflower heads...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Ira Goller is the third owner of Murray's Sturgeon Shop, where very little has changed since it opened in 1946. (Talia Siegel) | |
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This Upper West Side appetizing shop stands apart by standing still
(New York Jewish Week) — Paul Klausner, a native Upper West Sider, has clear memories of shopping with his mother as a young boy at Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, a store on Broadway and 89th Street known for smoked fish. In Klausner’s family, when it came to buying lox and all the fixings, Murray’s was the place...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Changing Pastimes
By Rabbi Charles E. Savenor
Executive Director of Civic Spirit
Framing America’s longstanding love affair with baseball, Rabbi Solomon Schechter once asserted: “In order to be a success in the American rabbinate, you must be able to talk baseball.” While these words from the head of the Jewish Theological Seminar a century ago may be apocryphal, their impact is unequivocal. By the twentieth century baseball had become an integral part of Americana. Baseball metaphors pervade our speech today and a simple game of catch between father and son still represents the quintessential moment of familial bonding.
A century later, however, baseball is no longer America’s pastime, as reflected by a significant drop in ratings. And despite several attempts at rule changes – including larger bases introduced during Spring Training - to lure fans back, it is clear that baseball has lost its luster.
Football is our new pastime. In addition to incredible ratings and the popularity of Madden video games, perhaps the greatest indicator of the NFL’s dominance in American culture is the Super Bowl. At a time when content has become “tribal,” Super Bowl Sunday has almost reached civic holiday status. The game itself is the most watched TV program during the year...
Click here to read the article in its entirety.
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Be a part of the NY Metro Region's
effort to support the
Ramah Berkshires Tikvah Fund
Supporting Campers with Special Needs
DONATE TODAY
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The answer to the March 10 Issue Trivia: The Bnei Menashe (Hebrew: בני מנשה, "Children of Menasseh", known as the Shinlung in India) is a community of people from various Tibeto-Burmese ethnic groups from the border of India and Burma who claim descent from one of the Lost Tribes of Israel, with some of them having adopted Judaism. | |
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Exotic Jewish Communities Trivia Quiz
In the 1930's a Jewish engineer working in Iberia was astonished to discover a community of "annusim", or crypto-Jews, in a mountain town near where he was working.
What is the name of the town?
Send in your answers!
Do you have any trivia that you would like to share for the newsletter? Please contact Lisa at assistant@fjmc.org
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Letters to the Editor
If you have an article of interest, a special event happening at your Men's Club or other news for the New York Metro Region newsletter, please forward them to Lisa Pollack at assistant@fjmc.org
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New York Metro Region
Is Seeking A Volunteer
Marketing Communications "Maestro"
- Newsletter
- Email Announcements
- Mailing Lists
- And more
Inquiries and questions, contact: Aaron Altman at aaltman@fjmc.org
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the exciting club programs and more.
New York Metro Region Newsletter edited by Lisa Pollack.
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