Yiddishe Mamas (49 page)

R
ABBI
S
HIRA
S
TERN:
Rabbi Shira Stern, BCC, is the daughter of famed violinist, Isaac Stern, and is a member of the advisory board of Plain Views, and director of the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care of the HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York City. She serves on the National Association for Jewish Chaplains’ board of directors and is a member of its executive committee.
In 1983, Rabbi Stern was among the early group of women ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. She was pulpit rabbi of the Monroe Township Jewish Center in New Jersey for thirteen years, East Coast director of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, and Middlesex County’s director of Jewish chaplaincy. She has been an acute-care hospital chaplain and has a private pastoral counseling practice in Marlboro, New Jersey. She lectures and teaches in synagogues, JCCs, and Healing Centers, and leads services at two area independent and assisted living facilities.

J
OHN
S
TOSSEL:
Mr. Stossel is an award-winning news correspondent, anchor of
20/20
and the
John Stossel Specials,
and the
New York Times
best-selling author of
Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel
—
Why Everything You Know Is Wrong.
Mr. Stossel is also known for his “Give Me a Break” features that take a skeptical look at a wide array of issues—from pop culture controversies to government regulations. His specials tackle topics with purpose: to expose frauds, myths, and nonsense and convey the truth—from hard news to human nature to science (or junk science). He has received nineteen Emmys, been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club, and, among other honors, received the George Foster Peabody Award. Mr. Stossel is a graduate of Princeton University, with a BA in psychology. He is married and has children.

R
ABBI
J
OSEPH
T
ELUSHKIN:
Rabbi Telushkin is a preeminent scholar and best-selling author. He has written
The Book of Jewish Values and Words that Hurt, Words that Heal,
and
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
along with a myriad of other widely read books on Judaism. He is also the author of the
Rabbi Daniel Winter
murder mysteries. He lives in New York City and lectures widely throughout North America.

R
OBIN
T
YLER:
Robin Tyler is the executive director of the Equality Campaign. She is a leading activist, as well as a special event producer for the lesbian/gay, AIDS, women’s, and antiwar movement. She has distinguished herself as the main stage producer of the 1979, 1987, and 1993 marches on Washington
for lesbian and gay rights, the producer of the Women’s Philharmonic at the Kennedy Center, and producer/executive director of the first International Gay Comedy Festival in Sydney, Australia. She also produced the Stonewall Democratic Federation Convention in Palm Springs, in addition to twenty-five major outdoor women’s music and comedy festivals. Robin was also one of the first “out” gay or lesbian comics in the 1970s. Her first comedy album was called
Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Groom.

D
R.
E
ILEEN
W
ARSHAW:
Dr. Warshaw is the executive director of the restored Jewish Heritage Center in Tucson, Arizona, which was the first Jewish House of Worship (1910) in the territory. The center houses collections and a research library. Dr. Warshaw has also helped restore four other synagogues, including the original synagogue in Dublin, Ireland. A historic preservationist, Dr. Warshaw received her PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. She has served on the board of advisors for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a number of preservation societies and heritage boards. She has published articles on preservation and written a book on Irish genealogy. Dr. Warshaw and her husband Alan have four daughters and seven grandchildren. She is the second-oldest girl of a traditional Roman Catholic family of seventeen children. She chose Judaism twenty-five years ago and never knew how Jewish her
mother
was until she became one!

M
ARJORIE
G
OTTLIEB
W
OLFE:
Ms. Wolfe, author of
Are Yentas, Kibitzers, and Tummlers Weapons of Mass Instruction? Yiddish Trivia,
is a retired business educator and freelance writer. Her articles have appeared in the
New York Times, Smart Money
magazine,
Playbill
magazine,
Reunions
magazine, the
National Business Employment Weekly,
the
Jewish Press, Long Island Jewish World,
GantsehMegillah.com
, and many other publications. She “learned” Yiddish from Leo Rosten, Uriel Weinreich, Fred Kogos, Rabbi Benjamin Blech, Arnold Fine, Jackie Mason, Jerry Stiller, Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, and her mother, Jeanette Gottlieb.

T
housands of sources were used and all were highly valuable. Many sources have already been cited within the book. Those below were major sources.

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