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Kabbalat Shabbat Service – Synagogue Scholar Phil Teumim

November 1, 2024    
7:00 pm

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“MY FATHER THE ARMS SMUGGLER” – A TALK BY PHIL TEUMIM

NOVEMBER 1, 2024 (after Shabbat service)

What do these things have in common: an Ashkenzi kid growing up thinking he’s Sephardic, a song of Israeli freedom fighters, a radiant panel heater, and a couple of boxes in the basement filled with dummy ordnance and disarmed munitions?

Come to B’nai Sholom to learn the answer. Long time congregant Phil Teumim will talk about his father’s role in smuggling weapons manufacturing machinery and technology to a defenseless Israel in the months immediately preceding and following Israeli Independence Day in May 1948, while British and US arms embargos were in place. Phil’s father, Mota Teumim, then traveled undercover to Israel to set up a munitions factory using the smuggled machinery, only returning home to his wife and young children once the factory became operational.

The presentation will take place after the evening’s Kabbalat Shabbat service.

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