Tucson Chapter Hanukkah Party

Tucson
Chapter
Volume 12, Number 9
www.TucsonBNC.org
November 2013
Hanukkah Party
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
4:30 to 6:30 P.M.
at the Home of Janet and Steve Seltzer
5001 East Calle Guebabi, Tucson
Latke Buffet, Beverages, and Dessert
Tucson’s New Shlihah, Oshrat Barel
Speaking on “Israeli Hanukkah Traditions”
Members $18, Guests $23
Profit goes to the “Sustaining the Mind:
Scientific Research and Scholarships” program.
Bring new children’s socks and underwear for Emerge! Center Against
Domestic Abuse for our Social Justice/Community Service project.
✂Hanukkah Party
Please Print
_____ Attendees @ $18 = $____
Name(s)_ _________________________________
_____ Attendees @ $23 = $____
Contact information (phone and e-mail)
Total amount enclosed = $____
($2 per person is NOT tax-deductible)
I cannot attend, but donate $____
(Tax-deductible)
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Make check out to BNC and mail by November 13 to
Arlene Zuckerman, 5448 N. Paseo del Sonoyta, Tucson, AZ
85750. (Call 577-1457 for transportation help.)
Tucson Chapter, BNC
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M e mber s h i p
P a g e
From the President
We Wish Our Members…
This year. we celebrate Hanukkah at
the same time as Thanksgiving. What an
opportunity to have everyone together
and bring both traditions to life. We will
have our Hanukkah Party at the home
of Janet and Steve Seltzer, a latke party
with our own cooks preparing a variety
of latkes and salads. Our speaker will
be Oshrat Barel, the new director of
the Israel Center here. She will be sharing with us her personal loss during the Hanukkah holiday as well as special
celebrations of the season in Israel. We will welcome her
to the Tucson community and the BNC.
If you have not noticed, we now have a large Brandeis
banner upstairs at the “J”. We are proud of our reading and
writing program under the direction of Terri Freed and
Kathy Cohen and of Bubbe’s Kitchen, both at the JCC.
We are building connections to local high schools for
young men and women to help us with the Book & Author
silent auction and our Book Depot. The young people work
quickly and efficiently at the depot under the direction of
Meg Sivitz.
I hope most of you attend the Opening Luncheon at
Hacienda del Sol with our guest speaker, Professor Robert
Williams, Jr. What a fantastic speaker!
Many of you travel regularly. Please save hotel toiletries
for one of our Social Justice projects. We also collect children’s books, new socks, and women’s products for these
projects. The books go to children whose mothers are in
prison. The mother reads the book to the child and then
the child takes it home as a gift from the mother. We stamp
the inside of these books to show the book was sponsored
by our chapter.
We have many special programs planned for this year.
Please join us as we embrace each program the BNC offers.
Have a great Thanksgiving and Hanukkah season.
Lynn Cramer, President
The officers, board, and members of the Tucson Chapter
of BNC wish:
Directory Changes
Please make the following corrections in your Membership Directory (changes underlined):
Roggie Edberg
EdbergRoggie@gmail.com
Linda J Gorsky
LJGorsky@gmail.com
Harriet Kronman 299-6441
heykron@gmail.com
We previously listed a new member as Sondra Winick. Her correct
name is Sondra Wikman.
Fern & Ed Feder
Doris Roland
Congratulation on your son’s honor
Get well wishes
If you know of anyone with a simchah or a sorrow, contact
Sunshine chair Charlotte Hegwer, C.Hegwer@comcast.
net or 529-8484. A card will be sent and an acknowledgment will appear in the bulletin.
New Members
Since the last bulletin, the following people have joined
our chapter. Add them to your Membership Directory:
Bernard Alper (see Candace Alper) BernardAlper@hotmail.com
Lois Bodin (assoc) 7537 E Camino Amistoso 85750 468-8704
& Herb Meshel
Lois ©702-219-6704
lesLois@earthlink.net
Meshel@OPD1850.com
Evelyn Browne
12753 N Rain Shadow Ct 847-224-0004
Marana 85658 TucsonGal24@yahoo.com
Dr Robert Fridrich (see Lisa Ungar)
Shirley Goldberg 7351 E. Speedway #25A 85710 777-8448
Cherie0407@aol.com
Rhonda Kauffman 5702 N Via Umbrosa 85750
Barbara Kessler
38000 S Rolling Hills Dr 85739
Beatrice &
3771 E Nugget Canyon Pl 85718 529-7391
Dr Herbert Krauss
BeaKrauss@gmail.com
HHarrisKrauss@gmail.com
Leonard Kronman (see Harriet Kronman)LenKronman@yahoo.com
Ira Leavitt (see Donna Leavitt)
IraLeavitt@gmail.com
Charlotte Toppel 5400 N Vía Velázquez 85750 615-0123
ATCT5400@aol.com
New members are the life of our chapter. When you see
new members at a Tucson Chapter event or Study Group,
welcome them warmly.
Condolences
Tucson Chapter
sends its condolences to
Joan Kaye Cauthorn
on the loss of her husband Robert.
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New Study Group: “Personality and Society”
Herbert “Herb” Krauss, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, therapist, and academician. He is
offering a fascinating course called “Personality and Society.” This course is offered on
Second Tuesdays, from December through April. The meeting time is from 10:00 a.m.
until noon. There is a class limit of a minimum of 6 members and a maximum of 15. The
sessions will be held at Villa Hermosa (southwest corner of Speedway and Wilmot). Herb
can be reached at HHarrisKrauss@gmail.com or 529-7394. The fee is $18.
Dr. Krauss is an emeritus professor of psychology and former chair of psychology at Hunter
College and Pace University, both in New York. His teaching and research has focused on
self and society, abnormal psychology, personality, and adjustment to stress. His wife Bea is a social psychologist.
Please send your request to join this group by including your name, phone number, e-mail address, and the
phrase “39. Personality” with your $18 check made out to BNC and mail to Karen Loeb, 6703 N. Green Bay Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53209. This promises to be a great course, so sign up now before the class is full.
Study Groups Looking for You
A number of Study Groups are not yet filled and could take some more members. Consider taking some of
these excellent classes:
#7: Books and Bagels 2
#8:Local Authors Club
#9b: 97 Orchard Street
#20:Louis Brandeis and the Patriot Act
#23: Jewelry Making for Novices
#24:CRIZMAC
#25: Beginning Mah Jongg
#29:Mosaics
#30: Artisan Bread
#35:Dinner with Brandeis
#38: Lady Boomers
This is your opportunity to join with excellent leaders for a great learning or social experience. Send your $18
check made out to BNC to Karen Loeb, 6703 N. Green Bay Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53209, with the course
number and name. Sign up now before the classes are full.
Happy Thanksgiving
The new Membership Directory will be coming out
with the next bulletin in mid-November. Be sure your
dues are paid.
Send your check made to BNC for $60 ($100 for
two people at one address) to Betty Koppel, 7531 E.
Calle Brisas, Tucson 85750.
to All
Tucson Chapter, BNC
November 2013
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EDF F el lows Mee t ing
Study Group Corrections
The correct e-mail address for Judy Fishman, the instructor for Kabbalah and Meditation, is MagicJudy1@
gmail.com.
In the form for signing up for Study Groups, courses
number 33 should be “Ladies Who Lunch” and number
34 should be “Let’s Meet for an Ethnic Lunch,” often
shortened to “Ethnic Lunch.”
Our men’s group, the EDF Fellows, will hold its next
lunch meeting on Monday, November 11, from 11:30 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. at the Viscount Hotel.
The speaker will be Bill Baker, a
former NFL scout, talking about his
experiences.
Anyone in Tucson is cordially invited
to attend, join the fellowship, and enjoy the fascinating
speakers. Members are encouraged to bring guests.
Lunch is $20. For more information, contact Steve Seltzer, 299-3788, seltz5001@aol.com, Howard Schwartz,
615-2915, howtru3@comcast.net, or Tom Herz, 7455852, tghmkh@mindspring.com.
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Mission Statement
Brandeis National Committee
Brandeis National Committee is dedicated to providing
philanthropic support to Brandeis University, a distinguished
liberal arts and research university founded by the American
Jewish community. Its membership is connected to the university through fund-raising and through activities that reflect
the values on which the university was founded: academic
excellence, social justice, nonsectarianism, and service to
the community.
The “Artisan Bread” Study Group, a one-time event,
has been moved to Wednesday, December 4, from
10:00 to noon, at the home of Fran Caspe as described
in the Study Group Guide.
Community Service/
Social Justice
The Tucson Chapter gives back to our community.
Marilyn Lobell, our Community Service chair, reminds
us Emerge! is one of the organizations that Brandeis community service supports. In 2008, two organizations came
together to form the Emerge! Center Against Domestic
Abuse.
Emerge! is the largest domestic abuse shelter and provider of domestic abuse prevention services and programs
in Southern Arizona. Its agneda includes an emergency
shelter, housing program, outreach, advocacy centers, accredited community-based child care center, and prevention, education, and volunteer programs.
Emerge! is committed to improving and expanding services to all members of the community who are experiencing domestic abuse in their lives. Its mission provides
the opportunity to create, sustain, and celebrate a life
free from abuse. You can go on the Internet to find the
many ways you can help.
We are always looking for new ways to help our community. If you have a way to help, contact Marilyn Lobell,
MMLobell@msn.com or 615-0877.
Tucson Chapter, BNC
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Meet Your Study
Group Leader
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Terri Freed moved to
nearby Media after she graduated from high school. She
was fortunate to grow up in a loving family with her twin
sister Myra and both sets of grandparents close by. From
a young age, she discovered a love of learning and knew
from age 10 she wanted to become a teacher.
Terri graduated in 1968 from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in education and taught a year in the
Rosetree-Media School District. Married in 1969, she
moved to Pittsburgh, spending 12 years in the Mt. Lebanon School District. While there, she earned her masters in
education from Duquesne University and became certified
as a reading specialist. Later, as a divorced single mother,
she moved in 1982 to raise her son close to family and
friends, settling in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey.
In New Jersey, Terri taught elementary grades in the
Moorestown School District and earned the New Jersey
Governor’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Many wonderful
mentors encouraged her to move into educational administration, leading to a Principal/Supervisor Certification
from Rowan University. She then became an elementary
school principal, serving three years in Audubon and 16
years in Haddonfield, both in New Jersey. Although she
thoroughly loved classroom teaching, leading a school
as its principal provided many creative opportunities to
effect positive change in the schools. During those years,
she was awarded a fellowship from the state to pursue best
practices in schools with other administrators throughout
New Jersey. She is particularly proud of her accomplishments as a principal including,
•implementing an award-winning, integrated language
arts curriculum, with a strong emphasis on reading and
writing skills;
•implementing a K-5 peer mediation program, one of
the first of its kind in New Jersey;
•providing, in one of the first schools in the area, inclusive classroom environments for special needs students;
•implementing a gifted program;
•implementing a School Advisory Committee to ensure
the needs and interests of all parents were heard and met;
•implementing a reading-recovery program for at-risk
first-grade students; and
•supervising student teachers from the University of
Pennsylvania, Rowan University, and Rutgers University.
Terri retired in 2008 after 35 years in education and
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2013–14
Tucson Chapter Calendar
Fall Opening Luncheon
Board Meeting*
Hanukkah Party
Board Meeting*
Holiday Fund-Raiser
Board Meeting*
University on Wheels
Book Sale Opening Night
Annual Used Book Sale
Board Meeting*
Presidents Day Luncheon
Board Meeting*
Book & Author Soirée
Book & Author Luncheon
Book Fund Event
Board Meeting*
Spring Luncheon and Installation
Board and Planning Meeting*
Monday, October 21
Monday, November 4
Tuesday, November 19
Monday, December 2
Tuesday, December 24
Monday, January 6
Thursday, January 9
Thursday, January 16
January 17–26
Monday, February 3
Monday, February 17
Monday, March 3
Wednesday, March 12
Thursday, March 13
Friday, March TBD
Monday, April 7
April TBD
Monday, May 5
*Come to our open Board Meetings
Save the dates and mark your calendar
Officers
President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lynn Cramer
Vice-president Book Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meg Sivitz
Vice-president Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brenda Schneider
Vice-president Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Seltzer
Vice-presidents Study Groups . . . . Fran Caspe & Kathy Cohen
Recording Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Natalie Smith
Financial Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betty Jane Koppel
Corresponding Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aimee Doctoroff
Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arlene Zuckerman
Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elaine Lisberg
Questions? Leave a message at the Book Depot phone, 7473224 or e-mail us at BNCTucson@gmail.com
Tucson Chapter Newsletter
Editor-in-chief................................................... Steve Seltzer
Board Liaison........................................................ Meg Sivitz
Associate Editor......................................... Bob Rothenberg
Copy Editor.........................................................Beverly Fine
Proofreaders.........................Soralé Fortman, Janet Seltzer
Circulation..............................................................Fern Feder
To provide articles or information for the newsletter, contact Meg Sivitz, megaron3@msn.com, or Steve Seltzer,
seltz5001@aol.com.
The newsletter is published from August through April. The
deadline is the 10th of the preceding month.
Tucson Chapter, BNC
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Meet Your Board continued from page 5
moved to Arizona to be close to family and enjoy the beautiful desert and glorious weather. While here, she has volunteered in many programs, including The Mature Worker
Connection with Pima County, aiding seniors seeking
employment. When that program lost funding, she served
as a teaching volunteer with the Sahuarita Schools. This
past year, she developed a reading enrichment program
for K-2 students as part of the JCC-Brandeis BNC Partnership and worked with several great Brandeis volunteers to
provide weekly classes introducing the children to quality
literature and focusing on reading skills for emergent and
early readers. It has been an extremely positive experience
that the volunteers plan to continue this fall. Brandeis is also
discussing the writing needs of upper-elementary children
and the possibility of developing a writing workshop to
enrich the public school experience.
Terri’s son Mark and daughter-in-law Amber live in
Houston. She sees them often and always cherishes their
times together.
Terri became a Brandeis member in 2011 after attending
a new member brunch and became more actively involved
this year. The Tucson chapter has provided her with a warm
and welcoming atmosphere, and she values the many
wonderful friendships she made these past two years. She
is particularly interested in the Brandeis University research
programs focusing on neurological issues and the BNC’s
commitment to community service.
Terri loves to travel and also enjoys movies and the theater she finds so readily available in Tucson. Living in Green
Valley provides Terri a “country living” environment, while
being close enough to Tucson to enjoy all of the amenities
of a city.
Terri look forward to many interesting and personally enriching opportunities with Brandeis in the years to come.
Pear Up With
People in the
Tucson Chapter.
Enjoy our
many volunteer
projects.
Membership Hosts a
Teamwork Success
T.E.A.M. (Together Each Achieves More) is more
than just a slogan. Membership Committee’s first
get-together in September was a fantastic happening.
Many new and prospective Brandeis members
enjoyed learning about our mission and how to get
involved. An overwhelming number of people from
the community attended and you, our members,
made it happen. Through your referrals of friends and
acquaintances, interest in Brandeis has tremendously
expanded.
Keep the referrals coming, as Sunday, January 12,
will be a delicious brunch for new and prospective
members. Your friends want to know what Brandeis
has to offer the Tucson community. Let them in on a
“good thing.” Thank you so much for your membership
support. We all are working as team!
Meg Sivitz is always surrounded by books.
Brandeis University Is
Ranked 32nd
in the
Magazine List
of Universities
Tucson Chapter, BNC
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Members’ Daughter at Brandeis
New members Jeff and Adrianna Kaufman have a daughter who is a freshman at Brandeis University. Jessica
Kaufman attended Cienega High School in the Vail School District, where the Kaufmans live. You can see their
daughter, uniform number 15, in the photo below, rear, third from the left.
Jessica is the second Tucson-area student currently at Brandeis of whom we are aware. We are proud to have
her parents as members of our chapter of the Brandeis National Committee.
You Make
Money.
Students
Benefit.
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Express Your Thoughtfulness
With a Book Fund Card or Journal Donation
Sending a Brandeis tribute card or a Learned Research Journal (LRJ) is a quick,
meaningful, and philanthropic way to express support, congratulations, get-well
wishes, sympathy, and appreciation. No more running to the store to find an appropriate card — just contact one of the names below. The recipient is acknowledged in the bulletin so others can learn about the simchah or sorrow and respond.
Show you care — send a Brandeis card or LRJ.
Book Fund donations:
$5.50* Philanthropy, learning, and community (or six for $25)
$10.50* Goldfarb Library at night (or three for $25)
$14.00* Brandeis art cards (set of four different covers)
$18.50* Louis Dembitz Brandeis portrait card
$25.50* Sustaining the Mind Tribute Card
$36.50‡ Learned Research Journal
$56.50‡ Learned Research Journal Folio
$100.00‡ Special Book Collection
$500.00‡ Major Book Collection
*Contact Book Fund co-chairs Shelly Abell, REAbell@aol.com, 299-0057 or 4092346; or Sharon Greenfield, SharGren1937@gmail.com or 885-8692.
‡Contact Shelly Abell, REAbell@aol.com or 299-0057 or 409-2346.
Donor
Brandeis friends
Message
Learned Research Journal Folio
In loving memory of Robert Cauthorn,
with heartfelt sympathy
Recipient
Brandeis friends
Learned Research Journal
In honor of their son Mike being named the Pacific Coast
League’s top executive
Joan Kaye Cauthorn
Fern & Ed Feder
New “Sustaining the Mind” Card
We now offer a new card for a minimum donation of $25 or more to the “Sustaining the
Mind” project for research and scholarship in neurodegenerative diseases. The inside of the
card says, “A contribution has been made to the Brandeis National Committee’s Sustaining
the Mind: Scientific Research and Scholarships Endowed Fund, with space for an inscription to
the recipient and a place for the name(s) of the donor. There is also an explanation of the
purpose of the fund. To send a card, contact Shelly Abell, REAbell@aol.com, 299-0057 or 409-2346.
Contact the Bulletin
Steve Seltzer, Editor................ 299-3788, seltz5001@aol.com
Meg Sivitz, Assistant Editor.615-4739, megaron3@msn.com
Contact the Chapter
Book Depot Phone (leave a message).... 520-747-3224
Chapter Web site.............................www.TucsonBNC.org
Chapter e-mail................................. BNCTucson@gmail.com
Chapter Facebook site........ http://www.facebook.com/
pages/BNCTucson/115524478528080
Next Board Meeting
Monday, November 4, 2013
10:00 a.m. to noon
Murphy Wilmot Library
530 N. Wilmot Rd. near Fifth St.
All members are encouraged to come
to this open meeting.
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Tucson Chapter Calendar November 2013
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
3
5:00 97 Orchard 1
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
10:00 Begin 5:30 Single
Bridge
Women’s
Circle
8
9
1:00 Mah
Jongg
4
5
10:00 Board
Mtg
1:00 Guid­
ed Bridge
1:30 Medi­
tation
10
11
12
10:00 Books Noon EDF
7:00 Public
& Bagels
Policy
6
7
1:00 Cont.
1:30 Laugh
Fiction
& Feel
Noon Men’s Good
Books
17
18
12:30 97
1:00 Kab­
Orchard 2
balah
1:00 Guid­
ed Bridge
19
1:00 For­
eign Film
4:30 Hanuk­
kah Party
7:00 PM
Fabulous
flicks 1 & 2
24
25
10:00 Books
& Bagels
26
20
10:00 Tour­
ist in Own
Town
10:00 Jew­
elry Novices
11:00
Boomers
11:30 Mys­
tery Books
29
30
27
28
1:00 Jewel­ Hanukkah 2 Hanukkah 3 Hanukkah 4
ry Making Thanksgiv­
ing Day
Novices
Hanukkah 1
13
10:00 Page
Turners
Noon Eth­
nic Lunch
14
15
16
10:00 Local 10:00 Begin
Bridge
Authors
11:30 La­
1:00 Art
dies
Scene
Lunch
21
22
23
10:00 Begin
Bridge
November 11 is Veterans Day; November 27 is the first night of Hanukkah; November 27 is
Thanksgiving. Hanukkah numbers above are the number of candles that evening.
Tucson Chapter, BNC
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What’s New at
Brandeis University in Waltham?
IBS Has New Brand Platform
Brandeis-Israel Research
Brandeis’ International Business
School (IBS) recently unveiled a new
branding platform designed to enhance
its reputation and visibility around the
world. The initiative is encapsulated in the tag line “World
Ready” and has been introduced by a new Web site and
video. The new brand unifies the school’s message within
a clean, modern design that befits the rapidly growing
institution.
Among the key components of the new site are bolder visuals, greater integration with social media, improved audiencebased navigation, and “responsive design,” which means it
is compatible across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
“We are excited to launch the new World Ready brand
platform as a way to further enhance our efforts to communicate the values of our school and the world-class business
education we provide students,” said Dean Bruce Magid.
“This new marketing initiative showcases our strengths as
a forward-thinking, globally minded institution.”
Despite the advances in communication technology,
nothing beats face-to-face conversations. Just ask some
Brandeis University neuroscientists who recently spent
two days brainstorming with their counterparts from Israel. “You’d think in the age of e-mail you wouldn’t need to sit
down and chat in person,” said assistant professor of biology
Suzanne Paradis. “But you can be so much more productive
in 30 minutes of talking than in 30 e-mails.”
Paradis is one of several Brandeis faculty members developing joint projects with colleagues in Israel as part of
the Henry J. Leir Brandeis-Israel Research Initiative, which
will underwrite collaborations between Israeli and Brandeis
neuroscientists and fund postdoctoral appointments for
up-and-coming Israeli scientists at Brandeis.
The $750,000 grant aims to strengthen connections between Brandeis and Israeli scientists and support research
projects on the human brain. Four Israeli scientists visited
the campus to meet with the faculty and discuss research
opportunities. Hanukkah Party
Holiday FundRaiser
DECEMBER
24
NOVEMBER
19
Fall Opening
Luncheon &
Meeting
CALENDAR
2013
OCTOBER
21
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