On PEI, Jewish islanders forge a brand of faith all their own

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He unzips one and pulls out a tallit – a Jewish prayer shawl – which he drapes over his shoulders. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych b ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 2-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_003-V_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_003-V_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: audio-1: audio-1-description: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_004-V_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_004-V_sm.jpg caption-2: credit-2: audio-2: audio-2-description: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] For a brief moment, his eyes well up with tears. When was the last time he wore it? He pauses, glances at his wife, Maida, then looks back. “Not here, I don’t think.” [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych c ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_006_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_006_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: audio-1: audio-1-description: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_007_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_007_sm.jpg caption-2: credit-2: audio-2: audio-2-description: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] Like most other Jews in PEI, Rutte is a come-from-away. In New Mexico, where he lived until 2020, he would have worn his tallit and his tefillin (a small leather box containing verses from the Torah) in synagogue. But PEI, where Jews make up about 0.1 percent of the population, is the only Canadian province without a synagogue or a rabbi. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo d ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_009_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_009_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_009_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] PEI-born Maida Rogerson, whom Rutte met in Toronto 53 years ago, isn’t Jewish. Nor is Leo Mednick’s wife, Beverly. Nor is Deborah Gross’s husband, Ron. Both Gross and Rutte are board members of the Prince Edward Island Jewish Community (PEIJC) and Mednick is its former president. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo f ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_008_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_008_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_008_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Martin Rutte and his wife Maida Rogerson lived in many different locations over the years, but eventually settled in Rogerson’s home province of PEI in 2020. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo e ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_005_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_005_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_005_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Leslee Sack’s grandfather, Ichel Meier Kowalsky, was a rabbi as well as an early employee of the non-profit American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which sent him to help with relief efforts in Jewish communities overseas. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo h ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_011_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_011_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_011_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] Debra Buckler, another board member who moved from Mississauga, Ontario in 2019, is – improbably – a novice pig farmer. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo i ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_013-V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_013-V_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_013-V_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 4-3 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] She is not even the island’s first Jewish pig farmer, according to historian Dr. Joseph Glass, who began a formal study of the history of PEI’s Jewish community when he moved from Toronto in 2016. [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** photo j ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_012_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_012_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_012_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] At a mid-week dinner for the PEIJC executive, Gross serves up appetizers of local mussels and snow crab: delicious but not kosher. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych k ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 2-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_016-V_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_016-V_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: audio-1: audio-1-description: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_017-V_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_017-V_sm.jpg caption-2: credit-2: audio-2: audio-2-description: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] “People have their own backgrounds and knowledge and understanding,” says Glass. Even those like Mednick, whose father was an Orthodox Rabbi, and Rutte, who speaks Yiddish, have reconfigured their Jewish identity since arriving to the island. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo l ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_015-V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_015-V_sm.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_015-V_sm.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 2-3 caption: Sack’s grandfather, Rabbi Kowalsky, was born in 1890 in Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1908, where he traveled the country, providing services in synagogues that could not afford a full-time rabbi. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] Unlike in other provinces, there was never a mass migration of Jews to P.E.I. The earliest record of a Jewish person on the island is from the mid-19th century but it wasn’t until the 1980s that the Jewish community formally organized itself. Its numbers remained under 50 until the 1990s, says Glass. The result today is something of a motley crew of individuals from different countries, with different practices, beliefs, and levels of knowledge about Judaism. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo n ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_019_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_019_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_019_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Rafael Barbosa helps 10-year-old son Joel recite blessings over Shabbat wine. Their family moved to the island from Brazil when Barbosa's wife, Raquel Hoersting, got a job at the University of Prince Edward Island. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo o ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_020_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_020_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_020_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Tirosh Shapira, helped by daughter Danielle, makes his mother’s egg-salad recipe for seder. Shapira, an infectious-diseases expert originally from Israel, came to the island two years ago. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo m ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_018_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_018_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_018_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: Kim Dormaar, while not Jewish, has close ties to the community in PEI. He was born in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, where his father helped prevent the deportation of some Jews by altering their medical records. credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** photo p ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_042_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_042_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_042_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] There is a classic Jewish joke that states that the various religious holidays can be summed up by a single line: “They tried to kill us; they failed; let’s eat!” This is especially true for the Jewish community in PEI, sometimes called Canada’s Food Island. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo q ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_025-V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_025-V_sm.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_025-V_sm.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] “Holidays are all about the kids and the food,” says Leslee Sack, a transplant from Brooklyn who has dubbed herself “P.E.I. Bubbe,” the Yiddish word for grandmother. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych r ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_026_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_026_sm.jpg caption-1: During the family’s Passover seder, the Ziolaberry sisters – Sibley, 6, Darwin, 9, and Linnaea, 5 – re-enact the crossing of the Red Sea. credit-1: audio-1: audio-1-description: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_027_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_027_sm.jpg caption-2: The kids are among the many that Sack, who has no grandchildren, has ‘adopted’ since arriving from New York. credit-2: audio-2: audio-2-description: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** photo s ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_028-V_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_028-V_sm.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_028-V_sm.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 2-3 desktop-aspect-ratio: 2-3 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] Sack, a former travel agent who lost work colleagues on 9/11, moved to PEI five years later at the age of 60. “It’s nirvana for me,” she says of island life. “I’ve never been in a place I’d rather live than here.” [] [] [] :skip ****** photo u ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_030_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_030_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_030_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] With Jewish life on the island being less about religious practice and more about community, quite often the big event is the potluck meal. “The Passover seder is the only religious large group event,” says Mednick. [] [] [] :skip ****** diptych v ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_031_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_031_sm.jpg caption-1: credit-1: audio-1: audio-1-description: photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_032_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_032_sm.jpg caption-2: credit-2: audio-2: audio-2-description: [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] The day before the seder, Mednick is at home in his kitchen preparing maror (horseradish), a component of the seder plate that symbolizes the bitterness of the Israelites’ enslavement in Egypt. Gross has come over to help. As he and Gross peel the horseradish, people arrive in his driveway to pick up boxes of matzah and other Passover foodstuffs he has ordered from Montreal and stored on a table in his garage. [] [] [] :skip ****** photo w ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_033_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_033_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/pei_jewish/PEI_RODAN_033_lg.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false mobile-aspect-ratio: 3-2 desktop-aspect-ratio: 3-2 caption: credit: audio: audio-description: [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** standalone text x ****** :endskip [.slide] type: text [.text] [.+paragraphs] The morning of the seder, Rutte, who is hosting the event this year, arrives at the Charlottetown farmers’ market and immediately runs into his brother-in-law. Every minute or two, he stops to have a quick chat – with a baker, an artist, a woman running for the leadership of the PEI Green Party, a senator, a doctor. He runs into a teenager who he met at this same market over a decade ago, when, as a three-year-old, she asked if he could be her grandfather. They’ve kept in touch to this day. At home later, a tallit cloaking his shoulders, he will briefly become misty-eyed at the reminder of an aspect of his Jewish identity that has been dormant. But as he gets in his car to leave the market, his cup is full. “Look at the dowry my wife gave me,” he says. 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She has a degree in Religious Studies, a diploma in Photojournalism, and a forthcoming diploma in Professional Addiction Studies. She is interested in social justice issues, psychology and the human condition and has a love for exploring new places and meeting new people. [] :skip ****** credits ****** :endskip [.slide] type: credits [.+credits] Photography and story by Galit Rodan Editing by Lisan Jutras Photo editing by Theresa Suzuki Digital presentation by Evan Annett Visuals editing by Liz Sullivan Interactive design and development by Christopher Manza [] [] [] `; !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r