{"id":23471,"date":"2017-03-24T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T10:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2017-03-23T21:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T04:45:48","slug":"baking-bread-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/03\/24\/baking-bread-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Baking bread together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grace Haan, JSA Peer Support trainer and supervisor, and Charles Liebovitch, JSA Peer Support coordinator, at the March 8 Food and Film Empowerment session. (photo by Binny Goldman)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The screening of Dough<\/em> at the March 8 Food and Film session of the JSA Snider Foundation Empowerment Series continued the 2016-17 series\u2019 theme of \u201cEating our way through Jewish history: Food, the doorway to our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presented in partnership by the Jewish Seniors Alliance and the Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia, this latest session took place at the Unitarian Centre.<\/p>\n

JSA president Ken Levitt greeted those gathered, taking the opportunity to introduce the alliance\u2019s new motto \u2013 \u201cSeniors, stronger together.\u201d He emphasized the comma in the phrase, as it had been the topic of much discussion. He also credited me for the motto\u2019s origin.<\/p>\n

Gyda Chud, convener of this third session of the food-related Empowerment Series, said she was happy to see so many women in the audience as the event took place on International Women\u2019s Day. Chud was wearing a scarf commemorating the World March of Women that took place in Montreal in 2000.<\/p>\n

Michael Schwartz, JMABC coordinator of programs and development, noted how women were responsible for the existence of many organizations in the province. He stressed the importance of families contributing their own pieces of history to the museum to help future generations know the community\u2019s origins and its past. And he asked audience members to become members of the museum, the benefits of which include receiving The Chronicle<\/em>, which will keep them up-to-date on the museum\u2019s events and research. One upcoming event, he said, is the Supper Club, which will take place at the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture, where the museum is housed. He concluded, \u201cWithout further a dough<\/em> we hope you enjoy the movie Dough<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dough<\/em> depicts the desperation that sometimes drives people together. Widowed and finding it hard to manage, Nat Dayan is desperate to save his London bake shop from closing \u2013 his grandfather had opened Dayan and Son 60 years ago. Customers are getting scarce, moving away or dying, and Nat\u2019s son, a lawyer, is not interested in continuing the family business or helping it survive. In addition, competition is becoming a concern, with a shop next door that is selling baked goods, as well as groceries, and Nat\u2019s apprentice has left to work for them.<\/p>\n

Struggling to keep his kosher bakery open, Nat hires Ayyash, the teenage son of his cleaning lady. Ayyash has been selling drugs to help support his mother and himself and, when Ayyash accidentally drops cannabis into the challah dough mix, sales at Dayan and Son soar. Long lines appear and the closing of the shop seems far off.<\/p>\n

A warm and special friendship develops between the Muslim boy and the Jewish baker, as Ayyash and his mother go to live at Nat\u2019s when their home floods. A line in the film \u2013 Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> meets West Side Story<\/em> \u2013 helps describe what we see developing.<\/p>\n

Tragedy is averted when a fire set by a competitor, instead of destroying the shop as well as Nat\u2019s dream forever, serves to bring them closer together with mutual aspirations of continuing to exist. Dayan and Son survives with the \u201cson\u201d being Ayyash. The theme is an especially moving one \u2013 overcoming racial prejudice and bringing about closeness through the will for openness, acceptance and understanding, which can be found in unexpected places.<\/p>\n

Chud thanked the delighted audience and invited all to enjoy baked goods \u2013 though not the cannabis-filled ones in the movie. The JSA staff worked hard to bring this event to the public, and Stan Shear was invaluable for all his technical work.<\/p>\n

May we \u201cbreak bread\u201d together in the future. B\u2019tayavon, b\u2019shalom.<\/p>\n

Binny Goldman<\/strong> is a member of the Jewish Seniors Alliance of Greater Vancouver board.<\/em><\/p>\n

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