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First Shabbat for Temple Beth Jacob rabbi Israel’s new rabbinic team in residence weekend Temple Israel will host the first Shabbat service with its new rabbinic team — Senior Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz and Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo — on Friday, July 8 at 6 p.m. Bodney-Halasz was promoted from the position of associate rabbi/educator at the temple; Sobo, who was ordained in May at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, most recently served as a rabbinic intern at Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua. Temple Israel is located at 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.
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Sustainability + Jewish values = Shulchan Yarok project By Marshall Weiss, The Observer When Shulchan Yarok participants pull up to the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education in Centerville on a June Thursday afternoon, not only are they greeted by coordinator Juliet Glaser with a box of produce picked and cleaned that day, they are invited to sample her homemade borscht. The borscht — a traditional Eastern European beet soup often served cold — is Juliet’s way to show customers how they might prepare some of that week’s produce with a Jewish twist. Dayton’s Jewish Community Center launched Shulchan Yarok (Hebrew for green table) in early June. It’s a community supported agriculture (CSA) project between Grim Farms in Arcanum and members of the Jewish community, who purchase shares of the farm’s produce over its 16-week growing season. “I have participated in Jewish community CSAs in other communities that I’ve been in,” says Juliet, whose family arrived here from Buffalo last year. “There wasn’t one in Dayton, so I thought it was a great opportunity.” She connected with JCC Camp Director Meryl Hattenbach, who previously ran a business that matched area farmers with local grocery stores and restaurants. “The JCC thought it was a great idea, so we got off and running,” Juliet says. The two oversee Shulchan Yarok as volunteers. Juliet notes that a key component of a Jewish CSA is building in tzedakah, righteous giving. “Part of membership in Shulchan Yarok is to pay for a full share that goes to the Dayton Foodbank every week,” she says. “The other thing that makes it Jewish is that Chabad provides us with fresh-baked challah every week so that CSA members can also purchase the challah for Shabbat when they pick up their boxes each
Thursday.” Later in the summer, Juliet says, produce will include herbs that people can use for Havdalah, the ceremony that concludes Shabbat. “We’re creating the space to have Jewish conversations around food and the environment.” She says younger generations in the Jewish community want to see their institutions share their values about the environment. “When we talk about sustainability in the Jewish community, we talk about l’dor v’dor, the idea of generation to generation,” Juliet says. “Our tradition, our values talk about not wasting, taking care JCC Shulchan Yarok Coordinator Juliet Glaser (L) and co-coordinator, JCC Camp Dir. Meryl Hattenbach, check out the produce delivered by Arcanum farmer Andrew Grim of the earth. We have all these Jew- during his weekly delivery at the Boonshoft CJCE in Centerville for the new Jewish ish laws around agricommunity supported agriculture project culture. I think we are obligated as a community to be addressing environmental and sustainability issues, particularly Move to around food. These issues are just as important as Jewish education and schools, and making sure that synagogues are prospering.” Juliet presents a teachable moment for each weekly pickup. “We just did a little celebration of Shavuot at our last pickup,” she says. “In a couple of weeks, we’re having someone come and do a compost demo; they will talk about how to do it at home. They’re going to have worms for the kids to play with. It’s going to be great.” Co-op members can also meet with the farmers each week if they arrive at 4 p.m., when the pickup begins. In September, as it gets closer to the High Holy Days, Juliet will have beekeepers talk about “why it’s important to support local farming in terms of bringing back pollinators and bees, and Continued on next page
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It’s a safe bet that most of our readers don’t associate Jews with farming. But the Torah and Mishnah are replete with agricultural laws concerning farming in the land of Israel. Over the past Marshall century, secular and religious Weiss Zionists have coaxed the desert to bloom there. Even in this country, some Jewish immigrants were given the opportunity to learn to farm beginning in the 1890s, when German Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch funded Jewish farm colonies in New Jersey, and established an agricultural college in Connecticut. Juliet Glaser, quickly emerging as our Jewish community’s “green queen,” tells me there’s now a bumper crop of young Jewish farmers and Jewish farming educational programs across the U.S., where participants can go for a weekend — or even an entire year — to reconnect with the land and help secure local food systems that are healthy and sustainable.
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Continued from previous page to tie in honey for the Jewish New Year.” Co-op member Judi Guggenheimer says she signed up as soon as she heard about Shulchan Yarok. “My daughter is an environmental studies major and she’s been big into CSA and organic agriculture,” Judi says. “So far, we’re very happy with it. I always buy the challah.” Shulchan Yarok relied on a Jewish CSA template developed by Hazon, the national Jewish environmental non-profit, as its starting point. “What’s interesting is the farmers that we’re working with here have not had an existing CSA model, so it’s brand-new to them,” Juliet says. “And because it’s brand-new within the Dayton community, yes, we’re using their template, but we’re making it our own.” Along with distributing a weekly newsletter with recipes and tips for how to prepare the produce, Juliet hopes to build in more recipe sharing and cooking among co-op members via Facebook, especially connected to the Jewish holidays. She’ll also reach out to Five Rivers MetroParks for speakers about conservation. Current Shulchan Yarok members have purchased 20 shares of the CSA at Grim Farms, which has the capacity to accommodate 35 shares. “For a first time and a first season, we knew we’d be in good shape if we hit 20,” Juliet says. “But we have room to grow. If someone wants to sign up, we are happy to prorate through the season, when they sign up. The last deadline to sign up is July 20, basically half the season.” The cost is $30 each week for a full share, $18 each week for a half share, through the final Thursday pickup, Sept. 15. “Even if you haven’t signed up for a membership this year, you’re still welcome to come to the CSA pickups on Thursday afternoons (4-6 p.m.) when we’re doing little programs,” Juliet says. “The baked goods and eggs are for sale for everybody. You don’t have to be a CSA member to get those.” To sign up for a share or half share in Shulchan Yarok for the remainder of the season (through Sept. 15), contact Juliet Glaser by July 21 at 720-934-2695 or shulchanyarok@gmail.com.
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How Israel stays a ‘well-regulated militia’ with so many guns around By Ron Kampeas, JTA Dirty, hot and exhausted Israeli soldiers waiting for their bus home from the army base tend, understandably, to be in a hurry to get on board. But when I was living in Israel during the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising, soldiers didn't jostle to be first in line. Rather, the most coveted position was second. That’s because the bus driver had the right — under rules issued by the army and made clear to each armed soldier before she or he left the base — to order any soldier to sit in the front seat and remain alert. And the first one to get on board was the obvious choice. If you’d just finished three weeks of training with rare interruptions for sleep and were looking forward to a snooze on the long trip home, this was definitely a downer. But it was necessitated by the rash of Palestinian terrorist attacks on bus drivers at the time.
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One of the first things visitors to Israel notice is the ubiquity of young people with automatic weapons. Yet Israel suffers from the tiniest fraction of the mass killings the United States does. Daniel Gordis, writing last year in a Bloomberg column, reported that Americans are 33 times more likely to kill each other with guns than Israelis. How is that possible? The answer is couched in that front seat the Egged bus driver kept empty for a soldier. It may not be immediately obvious, but the Israelis you see armed on the beach or at the cafe are just as subject to the army hierarchy and its regulations as they would be if they were on the front line or a base. Calev Ben-David wrote in The Jerusalem Post about the differences between gun use in the U.S. and Israel. He noted that just four percent of guns in Israel are not military issue. This means that the use of 96 percent of guns is governed
by army rules of conduct. As a soldier, you're answerable to a military tribunal if you break army rules and use a gun without orders — or if you fail to use a gun when you're under standing order to do so. For example, if a terrorist boards the bus you're being forced to stay awake on. The training Israeli soldiers receive also helps keep gun violence down. When Gabby Giffords, the Jewish congresswoman from Arizona, was shot in 2011, an armed passer-by recalled later to his own horror that he nearly opened fire on the folks who were restraining the gunman. Donald Trump’s assertion that a club full of armed French concertgoers would have headed off last year's Bataclan massacre is belied by the chaos engendered when shooters lack training — not just in proper shooting of the weapon, but in identifying when and where it is safe to shoot.
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The careful use of guns in Israel is about being answerable to a hierarchy, beyond being answerable to the law. This is the opposite of the “right to bear arms” in the American ethos. There is no “right” to bear arms in Israel — there is a duty to bear arms, according to strict regulations. This is why current and former military officers, even rightwingers among them, have been appalled by public support for the soldier in Hebron who in
March allegedly shot an attacker after he was subdued. As much as killing a subdued man is wrong, in Israel’s military culture, using a weapon outside the command structure is equally taboo. In some ways, then, Israel is the “well regulated militia” promised by America's Second Amendment. That component of the amendment, however, has all but been ignored in recent American court rulings.
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Slamming Muslim ban, Jewish Republicans still split on Trump Wednesday, July 6 his policy. But some of these same critics By Ben Sales, JTA are standing by him. NEW YORK — Jewish Republicans “The Muslim ban has always been are criticizing Donald Trump for his renewed call to ban Muslim immigration, something he’s been for and I oppose,” Ari Fleischer, who served as President although few of his Jewish supporters George W. Bush’s press secretary, told seem to be reconsidering their endorseJTA. “It’s not in keeping with the Ameriment of the presumptive Republican can tradition of tolerance.” presidential nominee. But Fleischer, who accused preBut at least one, celebrity Rabbi sumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Shmuley Boteach, rescinded his apparClinton of being soft on Islamic terror, ent backing of Trump following the bilsaid he would still support Trump, in lionaire real estate magnate’s remarks. part because he agrees with elements One day after a Muslim-American of Trump’s platform gunman opened fire Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images aside from the imon an Orlando gay migration ban. nightclub, killing 49 One Jewish Repuband wounding 53, lican who appeared Trump gave a speech to rescind his support reiterating his profor Trump is Boteach, posal to temporarily the rabbi, author and ban Muslim immitalk-show host who gration to the United was a Republican States. congressional candi“I called for a ban date in 2014. In May, after San Bernardino Boteach published and was met with a column on The great scorn and Times of Israel website anger, but now calling Trump “the many are saying I right candidate for was right to do so,” the presidency over Trump said in the Hillary.” New Hampshire Presumptive Republican presidential But on June 14, speech June 13, nominee Donald Trump speaking at the referring to the terror AIPAC policy conference in Washington, Boteach told JTA that while he opposes attack in Southern D.C., March 21 Clinton, his vote is California last year carried out by a married Muslim couple now up in the air. He said the column who according to law enforcement were was not an endorsement. “I disagree with him on the Muslim “inspired” by foreign terrorist organiban, I’m not in accordance with his valzations. “I will suspend immigration ues on some other things,” Boteach said. from areas of the world when there is a “I will decide who I will vote for as this proven history of terrorism against the campaign unfolds.” United States." Boteach said he appreciates Trump’s The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, stance on Israel. The rabbi disagrees, was born in the United States to immihowever, with the candidate’s call to grants from Afghanistan. expel illegal immigrants from the United Trump has since repeated the proStates and his criticism of a federal judge posal in television appearances. He with Mexican ancestry who Trump said also accused American Muslims of not was biased against him in a lawsuit conreporting terror threats to law enforcecerning the defunct Trump University. ment, claiming “they know who the “We have to turn to Donald Trump people are, almost in every case, they and appeal to him,” Boteach said. “’Mr. know who they are, they brag about it, Trump, you have to run a campaign in they talk about it.” accordance with our values, with AmeriThe Republican Jewish Coalition, can values. You have to show respect to which congratulated Trump in May for winning the primary but seemed to stop each and every minority group, repushort of endorsing him, released a state- diate some past statements you have made.’” ment June 14 admonishing the ban. Other Jewish Republicans who have “The fear that many feel today cannot opposed Trump from the outset used be superseded by a rush to demonize his recent statements as ammunition for and marginalize other Americans of a different faith,” the statement read. “As their stance. Jennifer Rubin, a conservative cola Jewish organization we are very sensiumnist for the Washington Post, called tive to the rhetoric used against lawabiding Muslims in the United States in Trump “clueless” and “delusional.” Dan Senor, another former Bush staffer, said the wake of terrorist attacks by Muslim there should be “serious concern” over radicals.” giving Trump national intelligence briefJewish Republicans who support ings, according to CNBC reporter John Trump have since come out against the ban, calling on the candidate to disavow Harwood.
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NRA, GOP: unindicted co-conspirators The gun control shadow game By Douglas Bloomfield If the National Rifle Association and its Republican acolytes were unmoved by the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre of small children, don't expect any more than crocodile tears over the mass murder of at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando June 12. Can you imagine the GOP-led Congress, with its dismal record on gay rights, doing anything to help protect the LGBT community or fail to do the bidding of the NRA? Once again, the victims of a gun atrocity will have died in vain, just as the children at Newtown, because those like GOP and NRA put their love of guns above their love of human life. That won't go down well with the many Jewish groups that have for years made reasonable, responsible gun control a domestic priority. Even more appalling was Donald Trump's claim that President Barack Obama should “resign in disgrace” because he won't echo the Merchant of Hate's term “radical Islamic terrorism.” Trump even went so far as to suggest the president, whose religion and nationality Trump has challenged in the past, might sympathize with the terrorists. While Obama, Hillary Clinton and most others focused on the tragedy as an antiLGBT hate crime, most Republican leaders ignored that in favor of some foreign conspiracy. Trump, who has made Muslim bashing a central theme of his campaign, responded to the shooting with a self-congratulatory “I told you so,” suggested his anti-immigration approach would have prevented the Orlando attack. “I called it and asked for the ban,” he tweeted. Donald, in case you haven't noticed, the killer was born in New York, just like you. Once again, Trump was wildly out of step with the mainstream Jewish community. Religious, cultural and political leaders across the Jewish spectrum condemned the hate crime, speaking of the need for greater tolerance and fewer guns. Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin, in separate statements, condemned the incident, specifically noting what the PM called “the heinous attack last night on the LGBT community.” Trump sought to exploit the tragedy for his own political gain, and most leading Republicans seemed content to go along — perhaps out of guilt over their hostility toward the LGBT community — and try to shift the blame to foreign threats. The Orlando shooter, according to what is known, was a lone wolf who
pledged his loyalty ISIS just before starting his rampage. ISIS later claimed credit for the incident but the FBI has said it has found no evidence so far that it was directed by the Islamist terrorist organization. In one more dive into the extremist muck, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tweeted a biblical passage, “reap what you sow,” following the mass murders at a gay club, in effect blaming the victims. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) sent his “heartfelt prayers” to the Orlando victims but don't expect more from the man who has received $136,639 from the NRA's Political Action Committee over the years to block all gun safety legislation, according to Public Campaign, a non-profit proponent of campaign finance reform. Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-Ken.), who decides what legislation makes it to the floor and which dies, has received $1,262,189 from the NRA since 1989, according to Mic.com. He's one of nine senators who together have received more than $22 million from the NRA in their careers. By sheer coincidence all are leading opponents of all legislation to prevent gun violence, and all are Republicans. Of the 50 senators who voted against gun background checks last December, 48, all Republicans, were recipients of more than $27 million in NRA money; the lone Democrat, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and lone Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, got no NRA money, according to Reverbpress.com. As long as the NRA and its supplicants in Congress block efforts to ban assault rifles like the AR-15 and high capacity ammunition magazines like those used in Orlando, Sandy Hook, Aurora and San Bernardino, there will be more mass murders and the death toll will continue to climb at its current alarming pace. A GOP that preaches about the “right to life” for the unborn shows an alarming contempt for the right to life for 350 million living Americans. Instead they genuflect to the gun lobby and march behind the “Make American Hate Again” banner of a presumptive GOP presidential nominee who is temperamentally unsuited for the high office he seeks.
There will be more mass murders and the death toll will continue to climb at its current alarming pace.
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Douglas Bloomfield is a Washington, D.C.based columnist.
By Jonathan S. Tobin Sen. Christopher Murphy staged a 15hour Senate filibuster that ended when he declared that he’d gotten Republican leaders to agree to a vote on gun control amendments to spending bills. The claim that he had gotten Republicans to bend was ridiculous, for, as even The New York Times noted, there was never any doubt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would agree to the votes. What Murphy did was just a piece of theatre designed to appeal to the emotions of C-SPAN viewers, delaying Senate business for a day. Senators grandstanding for the cameras is just business as usual. What was interesting was that the emotionalism about guns did seem to influence one very unlikely actor: Donald Trump. On a day when Trump gave a speech in which he ranted about Republican leaders needing to “get tougher” and to just be quiet, he was the one who seemed to fold on the gun issue. Only weeks after pledging fealty to the National Rifle Association and resistance to liberal gun control proposals, Trump proved to the group he isn’t kidding when he speaks of being “flexible.” He said he agreed with liberals on a measure that would ban anyone on a “terror watch list” from legally obtaining a gun. The “terror watch list” proposal was part of the rationale for Murphy’s filibuster and, on the surface, it sounds entirely unproblematic. Who, after all, is in favor of letting terrorists legally purchase weapons? But terror and no-fly watch lists often include many people who don’t belong on them. The NRA and most Republicans properly oppose abrogating an individual’s constitutional rights without credible evidence of wrongdoing while also denying them any due process or right of appeal. And though denying a gun to someone on a terror watch list sounds like a great idea, security experts also warn that doing so would alert a genuine suspect that they were under scrutiny and might compromise any active investigation. In other words, what sounds like an easy fix may actually create more problems than the idea’s advocates might admit — like The New York Times editorial page. In its latest fit of irresponsible hysteria, the mirror image of Trump’s
attacks on Obama, it accused the NRA of aiding terrorism. Even more striking, this solution wouldn’t have stopped Orlando shooter Omar Mateen — since he wasn’t on the terror watch list. Now, it’s true that in one version of the amendment, he might have been affected, since that version included a ban on anyone who had been investigated by the FBI during the previous five years. So many innocent people would have been caught up in that web it would have created a vast legal logjam — and one that would simply direct would-be killers like Mateen to readily available illegal sources of weapons. Like almost all gun control provisions, this one wouldn’t do much to stop criminals or terrorists. Efforts by some centrist Republicans and Democrats to forge a compromise — one that would create some sort of due process for those on the list — might resolve the impasse in the Senate. But the proposal, which was voted down by the Senate last December, isn’t going to pass the House. So like Murphy’s filibuster, this entire exercise is for show and, for all of the heart-wrenching rhetoric expended on the subject, has little to do with practical ways of reducing violence, let alone terrorism. Which brings us back to Trump. He thinks Republicans who are appalled by his inflammatory statements are weaklings. But he is the one who got buffaloed by the combined push from the liberal media and grandstanding Democrats into saying he would back a proposal that, in the eyes of his loyal NRA allies, chips away at Second Amendment rights without doing much if anything to make the country safer. Much of what Trump has said after Orlando — doubling down on the Muslim travel ban and insinuating that Obama was not interested in fighting terror — has been unhelpful. But he was right to assert that Democrats were wrong to try and change the subject from the threat from Islamist terror to their favorite gun control hobby horse. Yet by flipping on this issue without knowing enough about it to acknowledge the concerns that conservatives have raised, he undermined Senate Republicans. Trump may think he’s tougher than other Republicans but he proved to be an easy mark for the gun control shadow game.
Like almost all gun control provisions, this one wouldn’t do much to stop criminals or terrorists.
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Liberal Jews plan a summer of opposing Donald Trump By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, convened its first national conference here in June, aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real estate magnate, who has secured the Republican nomination, from becoming president. “We have been actively working and campaigning to make sure that Trump is defeated since early fall,” said Stosh Cotler, the CEO of the group, which was formed from the 2011 merger of the New Yorkbased Jewish Funds for Justice and the West Coast-based Progressive Jewish Alliance. Mik Moore, the social media agitator behind the 2008 pro-Obama effort known as The Great Schlep, is planning a narrative series that would lampoon Trump. Cotler said she’ll announce plans for a mass action that would involve Jews across the country. She did not provide more details, but pointed to the campaign to have major corporations boycott the Republican convention as a template. That campaign, joining Bend the Arc with Color of Change, a black advocacy group, and Credo Action, a network of progressive activists, claims responsibility for Coca-Cola’s decision to markedly reduce its participation at this year’s convention, and has targeted others, including Google, Facebook and Apple. (Coca-Cola neither confirms nor denies activists’ pressure led the company to reduce its contributions to the convention, saying only that it is nonpartisan.) Other Bend the Arc actions targeting Trump include launching an online petition last November disguised as a mock “registry” of Jews — a pointed parody of his call for a registry of American Muslims — and a web ad that quoted Trump’s description of incoming Mexicans as “rapists and murderers” set against images of Nazi-era Jews who sought refuge in the United States. “The ugly anti-immigrant
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By Deborah Josefson, JTA ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — A nascent Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar in May when 121 men, women and children underwent Orthodox conversions on the remote Indian Ocean island nation best known for lemurs, chameleons, dense rain forests and vanilla. The conversions, which took place over a 10-day period, were the climax of a process that arose Some Malagasy Jews by choice see the practice organically five to six years ago of Judaism as a return to their roots and an when followers of various mesoverthrowing of the last vestiges of colonialism sianic Christian sects became disillusioned with their churches Additionally, the Madagascar men, and began to study Torah. who are already circumcised, underThrough self-study and with guidwent hatafat dam brit, or ritual penile ance from Jewish internet sources and bloodletting, to affirm their new faith. correspondence with rabbis in Israel, The 10-day period concluded with they now pray in Sephardic-accented 12 Jewish weddings and a symposium Hebrew and strictly observe the Sabon Madagascar’s Israelite connections bath and holidays. featuring a keynote address by Tudor The conversions were facilitated by Parfitt, a British scholar and expert on Kulanu, a New York-based nonprofit the Lost Tribes of Israel. that specializes in supporting isolated Indeed, many Malagasies, as the and emerging Jewish communities, but islanders are known, believe they are of were initiated by the residents. Jewish or Israelite descent, and that their “Now that we’ve re-established the founders were seafaring members of state of Israel, it is time to re-establish the Lost Tribes. Belief in the “Malagasy the Jewish people, especially in the Disecret” persists despite evidence that aspora,” said Bonita Nathan Sussman, most Malagasies are of Indonesian and vice president of Kulanu. African origin. Her husband, Rabbi Gerald Sussman According to local lore, Madagascar of Temple Emanuel on Staten Island in is the biblical land of Ophir and played New York, added: “We are in the proa pivotal role in providing construction cess of reconstituting the Jewish people, materials to King Solomon’s temple. which would have been more numerMany also believe that the Ark of the ous had it not been decimated by the Covenant and other ritualistic temple Holocaust and had we not lost millions items are buried on the island. of Jews in Arab lands.” Even Prince Ndriana Rabarioelina, a Beginning on May 9, members of the descendant of the Merina monarchy of community came before a beit din, or Madagascar, proudly asserts Jewish anrabbinical court, convened for the occacestry. He told JTA that up to 80 percent sion at the Le Pave Hotel here, the Mad- of Malagasies can claim Jewish roots. agascar capital. The court comprised He asserts that portions of the tablets, three rabbis with Orthodox ordinations: Moses' rod and a copy of the Book of Rabbi Oizer Neumann of Brooklyn, Daniel are safeguarded by descendants Rabbi Achiya Delouya of Montreal and of Levites in the Vatamasina-Vohipeno Rabbi Pinchas Klein of Philadelphia. All region of Madagascar. three belong to a group of rabbis who Additionally, several Merina tombs, serve far-flung Jewish communities and including those of his family, bear Hesupport converting emergent Jewish brew symbols or letters, he said. groups. Nevertheless, evidence of a historic Delouya, whose background is MoJudaic presence in Madagascar is scarce, roccan, spoke with the converts in their and what signs can be found could date second official language, French, and from the seventh century, when traders also provided Sephardic influences for from Arab lands sailed to the island, or which the Madagascar community feel the 1500s, when conversos may have an affinity. been among the Portuguese sailors who The conversion process included established trading posts. periods of intensive Torah study, inMadagascar, a country of 20 milterviews by the beit din and full body lion people, is awash with missionarimmersions in a river located a 90-minies. Some 50 percent of the population ute drive away from Antananarivo. A practices some form of Christianity, privacy tent was hastily erected beside while most of the other half practices the river for the occasion, and a festive an indigenous animist faith in which atmosphere ensued as men, women and ancestor worship features prominently. children, ranging in age from 3 to 85, Approximately seven percent of the lined up to take the ritual plunge. population is Muslim. THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • JULY 2016
Local Lion Receives National Honor Jewish Federation of GREATER DAYTON SAVE THE DATE › JFGD Annual Meeting I jewishdayton Wednesday, August 17 5:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE Awards and installation of JFGD, JFS, JCC board members, graduation of the Jewish Community Leadership Institute and special recognition of Kipnis-Wilson Friedland Award recipients. We will also honor Janice Kohn for her distinguished years of service to the Dayton Jewish Community. › PJ LIBRARY End of Summer Road Trip with Josh & the Jamtones Sunday, August 7 @ 1:30PM Meet @ Boonshoft CJCE Join the Cincinnati PJ Library party at the Mayerson JCC and get up and dance! $5 per person or $15 per family presale. Contact Juliet Glaser at jglaser@jfgd.net for more information. › Young Adult Division & Chabad Rock the Wall Tuesday, August 16 @ 7PM Urban Krag Climbing Center (125 Clay Street, Dayton) An evening of challenge and excitement of rock climbing. Following the event we will go to the Century Bar to celebrate our success! Contact Cheryl Carne at 610-1778. RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free. PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS UNLESS NOTED: 610-1555, ksteiger@jfgd.net
Congratulations to Susie Katz, Dayton's 2016 Kipnis-Wilson Friedland Award Winner! This national award, to be presented at the 2016 Lion of Judah Conference in September in Washington D.C., is named for Lion of Judah founders Norma Kipnis-Wilson and Toby Friedland z”l. It honors the most inspiring women in our communities across the United States. Susie Katz was born and raised in Dayton, and married her childhood sweetheart, Eddie, to whom she has been married for 41 years. After completing graduate school at the University of Virginia, Susie and Eddie moved back to Dayton, where she became involved in the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton. She joined the Young Women’s Division of the Jewish Federation, and held two terms as Chair. Susie served on the UJA’s National Young Leadership Board, and chaired their committee on Russian Jewry. She served as a campaign trainer for the UJA National Speaker’s Bureau, traveling throughout the U.S. and Canada assisting communities with their campaigns. Susie has been a Lion of Judah for 25 years. She has served our local community in many ways building the Federation's Annual Campaign through her commitment to all the ideals of the United Jewish Appeal. In recent years, Susie has returned to leadership for the annual campaign through her co-chairing of our Presidents Dinner. This newly instituted
annual campaign signature event has reenergized giving in the Dayton Jewish community. Susie’s significant contribution to the event has been identifying and mentoring new leadership and developing a comprehensive and compelling story of how one gift impacts so many lives. Susie Katz has contributed greatly to the broader Jewish community through her leadership as president of Beth Abraham Synagogue’s board for six years. She has also been involved in the Dayton Art Institute’s Auxiliary Board and has volunteered for numerous community organizations, providing leadership in their fundraising initiatives. Of all her accomplishments, Susie is most proud of her family, especially her beautiful children and grandchildren. She has also inspired our Federation to develop an innovative program for PJ Library linking local grandparents with their grandchildren wherever they are, set to launch this fall.
Israeli artist Hasia Naveh came to Dayton as part of Partnership2gether's Art and Community programming. TOP: Eileen Neiman threads a needle during Hasia's Master Class. PHOTO CREDIT: DANIT BORNSTEIN BOTTOM: Students
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Acadamy admire Hasia's work. PHOTO CREDIT: HILLEL ACADEMY
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SEPTEMBER 26 @ 7PM: 2016 Elections: A Jewish Perspective Join JCRC and CABF to watch the Presidential debate with Dr. Steven Windmueller, a professor emeritus of HUC who writes about the different elements of Jewish power, politics, and religion. SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7PM: Candidates Night Join JCRC and the League of Women Voters as local and state candidates address the audience.
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Jewish Community Center of GREATER DAYTON › Book Club Friday, July 15 10:30AM @ Temple Israel
(130 Riverside Dr., 45405) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. RSVP to Henny Lubow at 832-3899.
› Cooking Class Wednesday, July 20 6PM–8:30PM @ DLM Culinary
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› Dragons Game Sunday, July 31 2PM @ Fifth Third Field
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Samantha Studebaker and Kirsten Dales learn about sassafras leaf shapes at Cox Arboretum. PHOTO CREDIT: EHUD BOROVOY RIGHT: Ranon Ginsberg and Kahlil Knick explore the colorful cave formations at Ohio Caverns. PHOTO CREDIT: MERYL HATTENBACH BOTTOM LEFT: Lena O’Neill enjoys getting our gardens ready for planting during “Growing Green” the first week of Camp Shalom K’tan! PHOTO
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Bee boxes and bird houses were installed along the Kolodesh Nature Trail as the final part of an innovation grant entitled, "Birds, Bees, and Butterflies. PHOTO CREDIT:
MARY WYKE HEALTH & WELLNESS SUMMER QUARTER @ Boonshoft CJCE
$5 per class. Minimum 4 students. Please RSVP. › Tai Chi Beginners Thursdays @ 4–5PM Instructor Debra Stewart
› Tai Chi Advanced Thursdays @ 5–6PM Instructor Debra Stewart
› Aerobic Conditioning Tues/Thurs @ 9–9:55AM
Instructor Katie Marshall. $25 for all sessions. Through Sinclair Lifelong Learning. RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free. PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS UNLESS NOTED: 610-1555, ksteiger@jfgd.net JEWISH FEDERATION of GREATER DAYTON AGENCY NEWSLETTER | JULY 2016
JFS CONGRATULATES CONNIE BLUM
Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP) 2015 Coordinator of the Year
Mazel Tov to JFS volunteer Connie Blum! On May 3, 2016, OSHIIP awarded Connie the honor of Coordinator of the Year. Connie has served OSHIIP for the last 18 years. She didn’t originally set out to serve as a Medicare Counselor. However, when her mother became ill, Connie had to learn to manage her mother’s
Medicare. Initially, Connie found Medicare bewildering and challenging. Later, she understood Medicare and her mother’s benefits; her bewilderment changed to gratification and satisfaction. In the spring of 1998, Connie underwent the 40 hour OSHIIP training and has been a Certified Medicare Counselor ever since!
About 10 years ago, Connie became the OSHIIP Coordinator for Montgomery County. If someone from Montgomery County calls the state with questions, he/she is directed to Connie. After Connie speaks with the person and determines the scope of their question or issue, she
either sees the person herself or connects the person to another local counselor.
billing issues.
The ongoing mission of OSHIIP's program is to educate those new to Medicare about their benefits and help them understand their various options for supplemental and prescription drug coverages. OSHIIP also screens Medicare's financial assistance programs for those with low income and assists with applications. During annual enrollment in the fall, OSHIIP helps those already on Medicare with their plan reviews. OSHIIP also troubleshoots, and sometimes assists with appeals, when beneficiaries have coverage or
important helping effort and
Connie states that she is privileged to be part of this that OSHIIP is grateful to Jewish Family Services for their long term on-going support with publicity, use of space for counseling, and referrals. However, it is our privilege to have Connie in our corner. Here at JFS, Connie is our go-to person for all Medicare inquiries! She puts in hours helping those who need to decode and understand Medicare for both themselves and their loved ones. Thank you, Connie, for all that you do for our community!
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Recently I asked one of our long term volunteers why she volunteered. She took some time to think about this and then sent me a beautiful handwritten note in response. Her response was as follows: “I volunteer because the Talmud says if you save one life, it is like saving the world. I am not saving a life, but maybe I am helping someone by making her day more pleasant and giving her a chance to talk to someone. To quote Mother Teresa, ‘Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.’” There are many small things that we can do to repair the world – Tikun Olam. Please consider joining JFS in one of our intergenerational mitzvah events or as a volunteer! TARA FEINER JFS DIRECTOR
Jewish Family Services Jewish Foundation ofof GREATER DAYTON GREATER DAYTON Wednesday, July 6 › Intergenerational Mitzvah Event with Camp Shalom: Cooking for St. Vincent De Paul 10AM–1PM @ Boonshoft CJCE
Volunteers Needed! Cooking and crafts 9AM–NOON. Speaker from St. Vincent De Paul NOON–1PM. Please RSVP by July 1.
Sunday, August 7 › Active Adult Annual Dinner 5PM @ Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill
( 8268 N Main St, 45415) $15 per person. Your payment is your reservation. Please RSVP by July 26.
› Need Assistance Finding a Food Pantry Near You? Call the United Way Information & Referral Line, 225-3000 or Dial 2-1-1. › Are you caring for a loved one who is not in the Greater Dayton area? Visit http://www.ajfca.org/ senior-resource-connect/ to find supports and services provided by Jewish agencies nationwide. › Don’t know what to donate in the Food Barrels? How about nonperishable, non-expired meat/high protein foods? For example: CANNED MEATS: chicken, meat spreads CANNED FISH: tuna, salmon, sardines, other fish NUTS AND SEEDS
On May 19, the Active Adults created works of art! Under the guidance of Leesa and Delora, participants made mosaics to display in their homes. Please see the Sidebar for many more wonderful Active Adult activities to come! PHOTO CREDIT: SHERI POCH
RICE AND BEANS Thank you for helping the Jewish community and The Dayton Foodbank fight hunger across the Miami Valley! PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL ACTIVE ADULT EVENTS: 610-1555
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Making a donation to the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton in honor of a friend or loved one is a wonderful way to show you care. Not only is a tribute donation a meaningful way to honor someone special in your life, it also has a positive impact in the Dayton Jewish community. Your donation supports funds which help provide assistance to families in need, scholarships for Jewish youth attending summer camp or traveling to Israel, cultural programming, senior services, and so much more. Tribute and memorial donations can be made for various reasons, including: › Honoring someone’s memory
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UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGN IN HONOR OF › 50th wedding anniversary of Caryl and Don Weckstein Dr. Erika and Dr. Felix Garfunkel › New granddaughter of Renee and Dr. Franklin Handel Mary and Dr. Gary Youra › Hyla Weiskind receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Beverly Louis receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Joan Marcus receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Wendi Pavlofsky receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Birthday of Ralph Heyman Judy and Dr. Mel Lipton CAROL J. PAVLOFSKY LEADERSHIP FUND IN HONOR OF › Wendi Pavlofsky receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Birthday of Cissy Ellison Myrna Miller
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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES IN HONOR OF › Wendi Pavlofsky receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Hyla Weiskind receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › Beverly Louis receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award Shirlee and Dr. Ron Gilbert › Bat Mitzvah of Eliana Rose Garfunkel › Bar Mitzvah of Jack Garfunkel Dr. Erika and Dr. Felix Garfunkel IN MEMORY OF › Richard Flagel Dr. Erika and Dr. Felix Garfunkel
A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.
Zitsn: \ZITS-en\ Verb To sit.
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JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES IN HONOR OF › Hyla Weiskind receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award › 65th wedding anniversary of Ruthe and Dr. Edward Meadow Beverly and Jeffrey Kantor › Wendi Pavlofsky receiving the Beth Abraham Women of Valor Award Renee and Dr. Franklin Handel
ADDISON CARUSO B’NAI TZEDEK FUND IN MEMORY OF › Ira Fritz Donna Holt JEREMY BETTMAN B’NAI TZEDEK FUND IN MEMORY OF › Melanie Kushnir Jean and Todd Bettman
Expression with zitsn: › Lebn der zun iz gut tsu zitsn, un lebn der mamen iz gut tsu voynen. It's good to bask in the sun and to live close to one's mother. › Halt dir dem koved un zits in der heym. Hold on to your dignity and stay home. › Me ken nisht zitsn oyf tsvey shtuln/ferd mit eyn tokhes. You can't sit on two chairs/horses with one rear.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS Classes
JCC Cooking Class: w. Julia Hoy at Dorothy Lane Culinary School, 6161 Far Hills Ave., Wash. Twp. Summer menu, w. sangria & appetizers. Wed., July 20, 6-8:30 p.m. $100. R.S.V.P. by July 6 to Karen Steiger, 610-1555. JCC Fitness: Aerobic Conditioning w. Katie Marshall. Tues. & Thurs. through Aug. 4, 9-9:55 a.m. $25 for all sessions. Tai Chi Beginners w. Debra Stewart. Thursdays, 4-5 p.m. Tai Chi Advanced w. Debra Stewart. Thursdays, 5-6 p.m. $5 per class. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 6101555. Temple Israel Classes: Wed., July 6 & 13, 10 a.m.: Coffee & Commentary, Dorothy Lane Mkt., 6177 Far Hills Ave., Wash. Twp. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.: Torah Study w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.
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JCC Book Club: Fri., July 15, 10:30 a.m. The Boys in the
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The philosophy of Chabad By Rabbi Levi Simon Chabad of Greater Dayton Envision Jewish life in an Eastern European shtetl — an idyllic atmosphere where everyone went about their life devout and undisturbed by big city problems. This has fascinated artists and authors from Marc Chagall to Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Perspectives We read a beautiful description of this life in the introduction to Roman Vishniac’s photographic record of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. “There was scarcely a house in all the kingdom of Poland where its members did not occupy themselves with some study of Torah. Thus, there were many scholars in every community… And far be it that any man should oversleep the time of prayer in the morning, for there was a beadle assigned to the task of knocking on the window shutters of all
and quite insular, the Rebbe demanded a different way from his Chasidim: Leave your community and go out to a place homes…All of the pillars upon the two. where there may not be anyone which the world rests — Torah, The Jewish ideal is to intewho looks like you or prays prayer, charity, truth, justice grate the pleasure of like you. There you and peace — were in existence Judaism into the context can perform the mitzin the Jewish communities in and fabric of our modvot (commandments) the kingdom of Poland.” ern life. and teach Torah not Contrast this way of life to We must not view just for yourself, but nowadays, where there is so the demands of work spreading the Godly much happening that demands and family as opposed message to all those our attention. Our religious to spirituality; rather, around you. life seems to be, at times, at the these are the first steps This is the call that bottom of our list of priorities. in making the world a Rabbi Levi Simon the Rebbe’s Chasidim Which life is more ideal? beautiful garden of God. try to answer, even 22 The simple undisturbed life of In fact, we are instructed in years after he has passed away. the shtetl of yesteryear where the Torah to work in the world There are Chabad centers all had time to and build our in thousands of cities in more The Jewish ideal professions, and than 80 countries throughout devote to God, or the busy and is to integrate as we do so, the world. hectic life of the we can become But his message was not the pleasure of closer to Godli- only for those who consider present with so many demands Judaism into ness by treating themselves Chasidim. In each on our time? people pleascity, just like here in Dayton, the context and antly and being where we as Jews are a small The Lubavitcher honest in our minority, we must shine our fabric of our Rebbe, Rabbi business deallight for all those around us. Menachem Men- modern life. ings, etc. Each of us must make an del Schneerson We see this effort to turn ourselves, our — whose 22nd yahrzeit will be philosophy in the Rebbe’s families, our homes and our marked on the Shabbat of the leadership of the Chabad city into a shtetl of love and third of Tammuz, correspondmovement. While other Chacaring where all our activities ing to July 9 — teaches that we sidic groups have remained are imbued with Torah and don’t have to choose between in a small geographic area mitzvot.
A Jewish take on the Brock Turner case By Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal Kveller.com Just when we thought the Stanford rape case couldn’t get any worse, it did. In addition to the judge handing down a lenient sentence to a man convicted of three counts of felony sexual assault because of the way it might impact his future, Brock Turner’s father wrote a letter to the judge, claiming that his son should not have to face prison for what he called “20 minutes of action.” In a powerful statement, the victim
explained just what those 20 minutes did to her and how it robbed her of so much. Judaism teaches that anyone who destroys a single life, it is as though he has destroyed a world. In those 20 minutes, Oakwood High School graduate Brock Turner not only destroyed his victim’s life, but her world as well. She wrote, “You took away my worth, my privacy, my energy, my time, my safety, my intimacy, my confidence, my own voice, until today.”
It is remarkable that out of that destruction, the destruction of an entire world, she found her voice. Although her world was destroyed, she is attempting to bring some tikun, some repair, to her life and the lives of those around her. I am outraged that a father would choose, in attempting to protect his son, to discount the real and lasting impact his son’s actions had on this woman. But outrage does nothing without action, and this is a chance for us as parents to join
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Sivan/Tammuz Fast of the 17th of Tammuz July 23 Commemorating numerous calamities that fell on the Jewish people on this day, this fast is observed from dawn until dusk. Among the calamities were the breech of the walls of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. and by the Romans in 70 C.E. Marks the beginning of the Three Weeks, a period of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, culminating on the Ninth of Av. This year, the fast day falls on Shabbat and is postponed until the following day.
this woman in making a tikun. So I commit to teaching my children to respect boundaries, to understand that their bodies and the bodies of those around them are created in the image of God. This starts young, by not forcing them to hug or touch people they don’t want to, by teaching them the proper names and proper uses for their body parts (even if it leads to lots of shouting of “penis!” every bath time), and that everyone deserves to be looked in the eye and spoken to respectfully. It also means teaching them that the lines of communication are open, and that they should come to me if they have a question about how they, or another person, has acted. It means teaching them to accept reasonable consequences, like an early bedtime if they can’t get up for school in the morning. It means starting small, and building on their knowledge and experience until they are able to make these, and more difficult choices, on their own. In the Talmud, the rabbis lay out the obligations that a parent has toward their child. Continued on next page
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Beth Abraham Synagogue Conservative Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Monday through Friday 6:50 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Fri., 5:30 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m. Sundays at 8:30 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 293-9520. BethAbrahamDayton.org Beth Jacob Congregation Traditional Saturdays 9:30 a.m., Sundays 8 a.m., Sunday through Friday, 7 p.m. 7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 274-2149. BethJacobCong.org Temple Anshe Emeth Reform Rabbinic Intern Sara Otero-Eiser Fri., July 15, 7:30 p.m. 320 Caldwell St., Piqua. Call Eileen Litchfield, 937-5470092, elitchfield@woh.rr.com. Correspondence address: 3808 Beanblossom Rd., Greenville, OH 45331. ansheemeth.org Temple Beth Or Reform Rabbi Judy Chessin Educator/Rabbi Ari Ballaban Fridays 6 p.m. ‘preneg,’ 6:30 p.m. Summer lay-led Kabalat Shabbat services. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400. templebethor.com Temple Beth Sholom Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz See Web site for schedule. 610 Gladys Dr., Middletown. 513-422-8313. thetemplebethsholom.com Temple Israel Reform Senior Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo Fridays 6 p.m. Saturdays 10:30 a.m. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050. tidayton.org Temple Sholom Reform Fridays 6 p.m. 2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 399-1231. templesholomoh.com
ADDITIONAL SERVICES Chabad of Greater Dayton Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon. Beginner educational service Saturdays 9 a.m. adults, 10 a.m children. Sundays 9 a.m. Tuesdays & Wednesdays. 6:45 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave. 643-0770. www.chabaddayton.com Yellow Springs Havurah Independent Services 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10-noon. Antioch College Rockford Chapel. Contact Cheryl Levine, 937-767-9293.
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OBITUARIES Larry Balas, age 94 of Dayton, passed away June 16. Mr. Balas was born Dec. 9, 1921 in Cibakhaza, Hungary. He was a Holocaust survivor and immigrated to Dayton in 1956. Mr. Balas retired from GM. He was an avid sports enthusiast. He coached soccer for many years and enjoyed bowling. Following his retirement, he and his wife operated Sylar Antiques until 2015. They enjoyed traveling the world, collecting. Mr. Balas was preceded in death by his parents, Sandor Klein and Gizella Bernczweig Klein, two brothers, Gyorgy Klein and Endre Balazs. He is survived by his wife, Sydelle; children, David (Susie) Opper, Gary (Kay) Opper and Stephen (Sheila Barker) Opper; three grandchildren, Amy OpperScoville (Dawn), Amanda Opper and Lawrence Opper; two great-grandchildren, Emily and Morgan; nephew, Gyorgy
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(Mari) Balazs and their family, all in Hungary. Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton or the charity of your choice. Fred R. Leventhal passed away peacefully on June 16. Born in Cleveland on June 22, 1921 to Fanny and Louis Leventhal, Mr. Leventhal was the youngest of seven. He died a week shy of his 95th birthday. Mr. Leventhal is survived by his wife and constant companion of 69 years, Maxine, their two children, Fern (husband, Augustine) and Todd (wife, Gabriele), five grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. At the age of 18, Mr. Leventhal and his brother Harry arrived in Springfield to purchase Vining Broom. After serving in the Pacific in World War II, he returned to Springfield
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and married Maxine Margolis from Dayton. As a young Jewish man, Mr. Leventhal worked every day to make Springfield a place where all people, regardless of faith, race or creed, were welcomed and could prosper. As his business grew to become one of Springfield’s largest employers (providing jobs for more than 650 people in four states), Mr. Leventhal continued to work tirelessly, committing himself equally to the development of his business and to engendering social change. In an interview, Mr. Leventhal shared, “When I came to Springfield, probably the greatest hurt I had was that I could not join the Junior Chamber of Commerce because I was Jewish.” Today, however, Mr. Leventhal’s emphasis on inclusion has helped Springfield become a place where religious beliefs no longer exclude an individual from civic engagement. Indeed, as stated by Mr. Leventhal, “My challenge was to make Springfield a good place for more people. Rather than running away from the community, I stayed here and fought.” His devotion to his community is highlighted by years of service on local boards, such as City/Community Hospital, Clark State, Wittenberg University, Mental Health Levy, CHIEF, and Springfield Foundation. Mr. Leventhal also received numerous awards for his efforts to build and strengthen the Springfield community from organizations including the Springfield Rotary, Kiwanis, Jaycees, Opportunities for
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Individual Change, Springfield Management Association, and Junior Achievement for which he was inducted into the Springfield Business Hall of Fame. Wittenberg University was especially meaningful for Mr. Leventhal, as he served on its board of directors and established the Fred R. Leventhal Family Lecture Series — a free lecture series open to the public that for 34 years brought speakers such as Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes magazine Malcolm Forbes, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin to Springfield. Celebrating his significant contribution to humanity, his community, and the world, Mr. Leventhal received an honorary doctorate degree from Wittenberg in 2006. A deeply religious man, Mr. Leventhal was also a lifetime member of Temple Sholom and served as its board president. Furthermore, Mr. Leventhal was known nationally, serving as a board member of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and as president of the National Broom Association. Yet, for Mr. Leventhal, it was always the relationships that mattered most. A champion of culture and service, Mr. Leventhal touched the lives of everyone whose path he crossed. Working across political lines, Mr. Leventhal fought tirelessly to make jobs available to the working class communities of America. Whether it was in partnership with the National Conference of Christians and Jews or with his dear friend Richard Kuss, Mr. Leventhal pushed for political, social, cultural and economic change. Through these efforts, Mr. Leventhal has been an inspiration to us all; he was and will always be a profound reminder that finding common ground and building bridges is not only the true path to progress, but also, in these times of pressing cultural divisions, exactly what Springfield and America need. Please carry on the wishes of Mr. Leventhal by supporting the dreams and aspirations of local residents and donating to Temple Sholom, the Fred R. Leventhal Family Lecture Series at Wittenberg University, or the Fred R. Leventhal Scholarship Fund that will be established through the Springfield Foundation.
Continued from previous page In addition to the ones you would expect, like teaching your child a trade and teaching them Torah, the rabbis say that parents should teach a child to swim. Rabbi David Hartman, in his commentary on this verse, says that swimming is a metaphor for teaching a child to cope with unpredictable circumstances and events. You give your child the strokes and the kicks, but you can’t control every wave and current. Eventually, in the course of teaching your child to swim, you must let go and let them swim alone. Eventually, we must teach our children that they need to make their own choices in a changing and unpredictable world, knowing that we gave them the tools for success. You can argue that once a child becomes an adult, a parent is no longer responsible for their actions. But what we teach our children when they are young shapes who they are. In Proverbs, we learn to educate a child in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it. If we all commit to teaching our children to respect others, to care for others, and to do tikun olam when they are young, they will grow up with this imprinted on their minds and hearts. And we all know, that as much as Judaism might say we are done when our kids hit 13, we will always be their parents. Our guidance and teachings will impact how they act in the world. Our obligation to continue teaching our children does not stop just because they also have responsibility for their actions. But it is not enough to teach our children not to destroy a world. You see, Judaism also tells us that if you save one life, you have saved a world. Two men on bikes saw what was happening and intervened. They stopped Turner from continuing his rape and from sending his victim’s world further into a spiral of destruction. And so, as a parent, I want my children to grow up to be the two men on bikes. The way we respond to this tragedy and miscarriage of justice is to actively work to save the world, to respect those around us and intervene. After all, saving one life is no small thing. Rabbi Rebecca Rosenthal is the director of youth and family education at Central Synagogue in New York.
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Making an impression
Back to basics: a new series Research over the past two decades has led to fascinating conclusions about environmental influences on thinking and behavior. We’re all familiar with the effects of music on buying habits. But did you know that a subtle scent of cleaning liquids prompts people to be cleaner and tidier?
Candace R. Kwiatek A nearby briefcase or just its picture encourages competitive behavior, while reading words like “dependable” and “support” stimulate cooperative behavior. People smile more after seeing a “smiley” sticker. Author Mark Tyrrell notes in the essay How your environment influences you that this ever-present phenomenon of “environmental suggestion” can have a profound impact on character. In a similar vein, renowned 20th-century educators Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori emphasized the importance of a child’s surroundings for learning and identity formation. Montessori’s “prepared environment” and Piaget’s “rich environment” are still considered best practices in early childhood education. In fact, a recent U.S. Department of Education study of more than 20,000 kindergart-
ners through fifth graders (Early Childhood Longitudinal Study) suggests that the mere presence of such environments positively influences children. It reported that a child who has 50 books at home scores five percent higher than a child with none, and a child with 100 books scores an additional five points higher, regardless of the time spent reading. What does all this have to do with fostering Jewish identity and menschlichkeit in our children and grandchildren? It means that positive Jewish role modeling is only one factor in the nurturing process. The environment just as powerfully impacts youngsters’ thinking, behavior, and character in both overt and subtle ways. Creating a Jewish environment begins in the home. “We visit the synagogue. We live in our homes…Judaism believes that the most central house of God is not the synagogue but the home,” writes Rabbi Benjamin Blech in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judaism. In Raising Kids to Love Being Jewish, author Doron Kornbluth elaborates, “Home is where (children) spend most of their time and where they learn about life. By displaying outward signs of your Jewish identity, you are also showing that being Jewish is one of the main parts of your life,” — and a beautiful part of life in general. While a “prepared and rich” Jewish environment will look different from family to family,
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tion to the Jewish every version needs to people, the Jewish reflect two things: Jewland, Jewish history, ish identity and Jewish or Judaism itself,” values. Kornbluth writes. Here are my top Family heirlooms, Isseven universally raeli art, ancient coins, applicable and easily ritual items, and other implemented environcollectibles create an mental elements that environment that visumake a Jewish impresally celebrates Jewish sion. identity. 1. The biblical 6. The familiar Creation story teaches expression “Ess a that the universe has bissel – Eat a little!” structure and order. says it all about JudaCreating a home enviism’s relationship to ronment that embodEvery Jewish home should have a tzedakah box food. From familiar ies these principles recipes to exotic ethnic — clean-up rituals, cookbooks, there is no end to will permeate the entire home, daily pet care, regular “Jewthe possibilities for exploring, positively influencing its resiish moments” such as bedtime experimenting, and eating. dents both while at home and rituals or Shabbat celebrations 7. Through play, children into the outside world.” — encourages the child to engage and interact with the Collect books, display them, discover patterns and thereby world around them, learning read them — because we are make sense of the world. about their environment and the People of the Book. 2. Medieval scholar Ibn Tibabout themselves. Jewish toys 3. A mezuzah reminds us bon wrote, “It is your books alongside the traditional toy to aspire to moral and ethical that are your true treasure.” In store stash offer the subliminal character both in the home Bringing Up Baby: A Jewish Edumessage that Judaism is fun, and in the world. Similarly, a cation Primer, Rabbi David Ortzedakah box represents Jewish engaging, and part of everyday lofsky elaborates, “The things foundational obligations to jus- life. we use to decorate... impress If we’re serious about tice and to those in need. Both our children with what we also illustrate the notion of hid- raising Jewish children and value...Let your children see strengthening Jewish identity, dur mitzvah, making a mitzvah that (Jewish books) are more we should consider how to important to you than valuable aesthetically beautiful. 4. The rhythm of Jewish time “seed” our home environments antiques or china.” so they reflect the elements becomes visible on a Jewish Echoing the conclusions of Judaism that bring joy and calendar, and its celebrations of modern research, the last meaning to our lives. and observances become more Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, And maybe we should familiar and inviting when the late Menachem Mendel consider adding just one thing seen in context, year after year. Schneerson, said, “Even if the that challenges us to learn and 5. Jewish art is “anything books lie dormant on their grow as well. that emphasizes our connecshelves, their mere presence
Literature to share Lola Levine is Not Mean! by Monica Brown. Entering the multicultural genre is the new Lola Levine series featuring the feisty, competitive, and big-hearted second-grader Lola. Raised by an American Jewish father and a Peruvian Catholic mother, Lola is an independent problem-solver and a caring person. Considered among the best Jewish children’s books of 2015, the new Lola Levine series promises to be an excellent addition to chapter books for the early elementary set. Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life by Harold Kushner. Part memoir and part philosophy, Nine Essential Things explores the intersection between Judaism and modern-day challenges about mercy, conscience, God, and more. Kushner’s conversational tone and use of anecdotes from multiple sources including his own rabbinic experience create a highly accessible and thought-provoking work. THE DAYTON JEWISH OBSERVER • JULY 2016
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Arts&Culture Paul Simon’s latest masterpiece has surprising biblical overtones By Seth Rogovoy Forward Paul Simon released his 13th solo album, Stranger to Stranger, to nearly unanimous and deservedly great critical acclaim in June. With Bob Dylan stuck in a rut of recording Frank Sinatra tribute albums, and Leonard Cohen churning out live albums at a rapid pace, the 74-year-old Simon is the only one of the holy trinity of great Jewish folk-rock poets still making new music at a level approaching his all-time best. Nearly five years in the making, Stranger to Stranger sits comfortably aside the best work of his solo career, including Still Crazy After All These Years, Graceland, and Rhythm of the Saints. Simon’s new album continues to stretch the singer-songwriter’s approach in new and experimental ways. The world-music touches he’s been known for at least since Graceland but which actually date back to early 1970s tunes like El Condor Pasa and Mother and Child Reunion are still prominent. But this time out, they’re juiced with other cutting-edge
influences, including rhythms wildly uneven output of new and samples provided by songs on three albums over an obscure Italian electronic the past decade, consisting in dance music producer; instrularge part of original variamental textures by new-music tions on old blues, and Simon, composer Nico Muhly; some by comparison, is downright formal jazz elements contribavant-garde. uted by legendary Miles Davis It gives new meaning to his drummer Jack DeJohnette and 1968 song, The Boxer, in which vocalist Bobby McFerrin; and he sang, “Now the years are letting his band loose upon rolling by me, they are rocka warehouse full of musical ing easily/I am older than I visionary Harry Partch’s micro- once was, and younger than I’ll tonal inventions. be…” That, plus the appearance of Matthew Straubmuller a new flamenco ensemble on several tracks; an avant-garde chamber ensemble called yMusic; and extensive tinkering with samples of an old recording by the Golden Gate Quartet — oh, and Simon’s masterful guitar playing and a brilliantly literate collection of new songs that work like a novel, with recurring characters, symbols and themes — well, Paul Simon may just have painted another masterpiece. (Even the cover art is taken from a Chuck Close portrait of Simon.) Compare this with Cohen’s two albums of original songs in the last half decade, which while compelling, don’t break any new ground, and Dylan’s Paul Simon
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Indeed, on Stranger to Stranger, Simon sounds spry, engaged, passionate (as passionate as he can sound within his trademark laconic, somewhat bemused spoken-sung delivery), and totally in command. Stranger to Stranger concludes a late-career trilogy that began with 2006’s Surprise and continued on 2011’s So Beautiful or So What — meditations on mortality, aging, God, and the afterlife. While asking spiritual and religious questions, however, Simon has always been the least specifically rooted in Judaism of the three, much more universalist or humanist than biblical or prophetic. He’s got no Story of Isaac or The Future à la Cohen, who on the latter sang, “I’m the little Jew who wrote the Bible.” There’s no Kabalistic This Wheel’s on Fire or Zionistic Neighborhood Bully in the manner of Dylan. The closest he’s ever come is Silent Eyes, a post-Yom Kippur War ode to Jerusalem that concluded his 1975 hit album, Still Crazy After All These Years, and the title track to 1983’s Hearts and Bones, which finds the narrator taking off on a journey with a partner, “One and a half wandering Jews…,” presumably a reference to his thenwife Carrie Fisher, daughter of Jewish singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, of Anglo-Irish ancestry. Still, from the album’s title to the gospel samples to the preoccupation with angels, both heavenly and earthly, Stranger to Stranger — resonant of Moses’ command to the Israelites to remember when they were strangers in Egypt — is religious throughout, in a sort of Reform Jewish way that connects the liberal sociopolitical agenda to the notion of tikun olam, repairing the world. A band leader finds himself locked out of his own concert because he doesn’t sport a wristband, just like entire communities of people can never get ahead because they lack metaphorical wristbands. Visionaries and seers, poets and prophets are locked up
in hospitals and prisons, diagnosed as madmen and criminals (has Simon been re-reading Michel Foucault?). And consumerism is posited as the American religion, even beyond the grave, when in the opening track, The Werewolf, a dead couple go shopping for “a fairly decent afterlife.” I even hear Simon singing about his longtime rival, sometime friend, Bob Dylan, in the album’s best number, In a Parade. Ostensibly about a “street angel” who winds up being deemed a sociopath, it’s not too much of a stretch to connect the protagonist to Dylan when Simon sings, “I wear a hoodie now so I won’t get a ticket.” A few years back, Dylan was famously picked up by police who were called about a suspicious character in a hoodie walking alone through the streets of a New Jersey town. The young cops on patrol had no idea who Dylan was, and for a moment they mistook him for a mentally ill homeless person, until they drove him to the nearby arena where he was performing that night and Dylan’s band and crew vouched for him. And in an echo of Dylan’s I Shall Be Released, Simon concludes the album with a gorgeous lullaby, which wouldn’t have been out of place on a Simon & Garfunkel album, with biblical resonance of its own, when he sings: Soft as a rose The light from the East As if all is forgiven And wolves become sheep We are who we are Or we’re not But at least We’ll eventually all fall asleep Eventually all fall asleep.
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Seth Rogovoy is a contributing editor to the Forward and the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Scribner, 2009).
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Come join us at Temple Beth Or’s Makor, for our new camp-like educational program. Makor, which means source in Hebrew, will give our children an opportunity to get to the “source” of what it really means to be a Jew. In Makor, we have done away with the formal, stuffy classrooms of a traditional Sunday school. In their place, we offer active learning experiences (“shiurim”) and engaging electives (“chugim”) to help foster a Jewish spirit in our children that is equipped for 21st century Jewish life. Our Makor program includes Pre-K through grades 12. Interested in hearing more? We will be having an Open House on August 21st at 10:30 AM. For more details, contact Rabbi Ari Ballaban at rabbiballaban@templebethor.com or call (937) 435-3400. Not a member of Temple Beth Or? Don’t worry! If you are a non-member interested in sending your child to Makor, know that all first-time members with newly enrolled children receive a one year of complimentary membership to Temple Beth Or!
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Picnic perfection Israeli-Style Schnitzel and Syrian Tabbouleh Salad a delightful summer pairing Perfect Israeli-Style Schnitzel
By The Nosher Classic Israeli schnitzel — or chicken cutlets — is a dish that everyone loves, and any cook can master. And it’s the perfect picnic food, served up on a bun. Israeli schnitzel is simple, comforting and quite easy to throw together once you follow a few key steps. For the marinade: 2 eggs, lightly beaten 2 heaping Tbsps. of good quality mustard 3–4 garlic cloves, smashed fresh ground pepper 2 lbs. boneless chicken breast, very thinly pounded For frying: 2 cups unseasoned bread crumbs 2 Tbsp. sesame seeds fresh ground pepper and sea salt canola oil For serving: 3–4 lemons, halved Good quality mustard (optional) Combine eggs, mustard, garlic and pepper in a large bowl. Add the chicken and mix until the chicken is completely coated. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours, preferably overnight. Remove the chicken from the refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, in a shallow bowl, mix together the unseasoned bread crumbs and sesame seeds. Season with fresh ground pepper and sea salt. Dredge chicken breasts in bread crumbs, patting slightly
to help them stick. Pour oil into a medium skillet to about 11/2 inches high. Heat oil on high heat until very hot and add chicken breasts, adding just two to three at a time (depending on their size). Do not overcrowd them in the pan. Reduce heat to medium and fry until golden brown on each side and chicken is completely cooked through. Repeat with remaining chicken. Remove chicken from pan with a slotted spoon and place on a serving plate lined with paper towels, until all chicken is fried. Serve with fresh lemon and mustard.
Bazargan Syrian Tabbouleh
By Rebecca Firkser Bazargan, the Syrian-style tabbouleh salad meaning “of the bazaar,” has found its way into several cookbooks I’ve been exploring to learn more about Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish cuisine. This is the fresh summer salad I’ve been looking for. It’s time to move on to a new summer side dish that feels both familiar and different enough to be exciting. The dressing is a vibrant burgundy mixture of pomegranate juice and tomato paste. Blended with a good hit of spice and bright lemon juice, it’s exactly what the delicate herbs and mild cracked wheat need for a seriously tasty mouthful. I think the bulgur is best a little on the al dente side, so I recommend simmering the grain for no more than 10 minutes and draining it really well. One of the best elements to making this dish your summer picnic or potluck go-to? The components develop into a
more flavorful dish the longer it sits. Make it in the morning and you’ll be all set for your afternoon or evening plans. 1/2 cup bulgur wheat 1 large bunch flat-leaf parsley 1/2 cup mint leaves 4 scallions 2 cups orange cherry tomatoes 2 Tbsp. pomegranate juice 1 tsp. tomato paste zest and juice of 1 lemon 1/2 tsp. honey 1/2 tsp. smoked paprika Kosher salt and black pepper 6 Tbsps. olive oil 1/4 cup pine nuts
Rinse the bulgur well in a fine mesh sieve. Place in a saucepan with 11/4 cups of water and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low, simmer for 10 minutes. Take off the heat and let stand for five minutes. Fluff with a fork and drain off any excess water. Finely chop the parsley and mint, place in a large bowl. Thinly slice the scallions and tomatoes, then add to the bowl. Whisk together all dressing ingredients except for olive oil in a small bowl. Slowly stream in the oil while whisking con-
tinuously. Once the bulgur has cooled to room temperature, add it to the bowl of chopped herbs and vegetables. Pour the dressing over the salad and set aside. Place the pine nuts in a small saucepan and toast until fragrant. Transfer to a plate to cool. When ready to serve, toss the salad and add more lemon juice, salt, and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with pine nuts. Serve with pita bread and a smear of hummus.
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The Tastes of Summer Wednesday, July 20 @ 6–8:30PM @ DLM Culinary Center (6161 Far Hills Ave., 45459)
— MENU — › Mustard-Gruyere Batons › Cold Summer Soup › Grilled Fish with Mediterranean Relish and Bulgur Wheat Pilaf
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