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Local rabbis discuss abortion on JCRC program Sept. 1

The Jewish Community Relations Council's Community Conversations series will present the virtual discussion, When Does Life Begin: Jewish Perspectives, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1. Participants are Temple Israel’s Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz, Beth Abraham’s Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, Chabad’s Rabbi Nochum Mangel, and retired Magistrate Bonnie Beaman Rice. Facilitating the Danielle and Justin Zeisloft and their children, Joel, Adelaide, and Theo conversation will be Marcy L. came out for the JCC at the Dragons program July 24 to celebrate the Paul. Register at jewishdayton. centennial of the JCC org/events or 937-610-1555.

Community Selichot service Sept. 17

Beth Abraham, Beth Jacob, Temple Beth Or, and Temple Israel will join together for a community Selichot service beginning with desserts at 8:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17 at Beth Abraham Synagogue, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood, featuring the Dayton Jewish Chorale and local rabbis. Selichot are communal prayers of forgiveness said on Jewish fast days and in the period leading up to the High Holidays. The service will also be livestreamed at venue. streamspot.com/72a802ed.

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Arrival of Beth Abraham’s new rabbi delayed

In a July letter to Beth Abraham congregants, President Scott Liberman informed members that their new rabbi, Aubrey L. Glazer — who was to arrive in Dayton by Aug. 1 — would instead begin his work on that date remotely from Montreal because of a U.S. Government backlog on visa approvals. “To obtain the R-1 visa, U.S. Customs and Immigration must verify that Beth Abraham is an established religious organization, which means they will actually send a person to verify that we physically exist,” Liberman wrote in the congregation’s August newsletter update. “We have no way of knowing when that visit may occur as they do not provide any notice. This so-called ‘site visit’ must occur before we can finalize the visa approval.” In the meantime, Glazer is providing virtual sermons, classes, counseling, and attending meetings. Liberman noted that Beth Abraham filed the visa appli- Rabbi Aubrey cation in mid-April.

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Three months after fleeing Ukraine, 12-year-old arrives here the Braginskys power of attorBy Marshall Weiss ney for her daughter.

The Observer "She's not my relative accordMaryna Braginsky had never ing to American standards," met her niece Polina in person Maryna says of her niece. before. The 12-year-old girl's "It was a difficult decision," resemblance to her is striking.

Yulia tells The Observer at the And Polina had never met her Braginsky dining room table, first cousins — Maryna and set with two covered challahs a husband Michael Braginsky's few hours before Shabbat, Aug. six children.

The Braginsky house in Cen- 12. Maryna translates for her from Russian, Yulia's primary terville is now Polina's home language. too, while Ukraine is under "Of course I would like my attack from Russia. own daughter to stay in my After a journey of three own country," Yulia says. "I unmonths across five countries, Polina entered the United States derstand that the child should not see and not be involved in through Uniting for Ukraine, what's going on right now. So I the U.S. government program had to bring her." that allows Ukrainians seeking Maryna also translates for her refuge to travel to the U.S. with the support of a sponsor. She is niece Polina. "From the 24th to of February, it able to stay here for 'The child should 25th was scary because two years. not see and not there were so many Polina arrived Russian tanks in the in the U.S. with be involved in city," Polina says. her mother, Yulia what's going on "We live very close — also through to the border. They Uniting for Ukraine right now.' were just coming — on July 22 in and coming on tanks and on Philadelphia. A day later, their military trucks." connecting flight landed in On Yulia's one-hour walk to Cincinnati. the grocery, she would see dead But Yulia departed the U.S. bodies in the streets.

Aug. 20 to make the danger"I was walking to work," ous journey back to Ukraine.

Her husband — Maryna's older Yulia says, "and the military brother — serves in the Urkrai- plane was going very low, so I didn't know if he was going to nian army. She cares for her drop the bomb now, right here, parents and in-laws in Sumy, where Yulia runs a grocery that and I'll be done for."

Another time, the Russians supplies the city with food. bombed the electric station and To ensure Immigration Sumy had no electricity and no and Naturalization wouldn't internet connections. separate Polina from sponsors "I couldn't even call Maryna's Maryna and Michael, Yulia gave

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parents or my parents," Yulia says.

"And there was no water. I had to walk across the whole city to her parents to figure out are they OK and then walk again to my parents to ask, and then went to work."

Polina stayed with her father's mother and stepfather.

With an electric water pump at her grandparents' house, Polina says, the house had no running water. "So Maryna Braginsky (L) with her niece Polina and sister-in-law Yulia at the Braginsky's home in Centerville. Polina, 12, is able to stay in the United States for two years. we would go outside to gather snow in buckets so we could wash our hands or cook or drink."

Much of the time they hid in the basement.

Premier Retirement Living "When dusk came, we weren't allowed to have any lights in the windows," Polina says. "We had blankets in the windows and tried to keep the light low. You sit in a basement in a dark, dark house and you hear the fighting planes just making very large sounds because they go in very, very low, probably looking for targets."

The bombing was so intense, Polina says, that sometimes she and her grandparents didn't have time to eat.

"We were so afraid. It was dark, there was no ventilation because it was never meant to Continued on Page Four

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"I can't imagine. An 11-year-old kid? I have trouble letting my 19-yearold drive across the street," Maryna Braginsky says while her niece, Polina (she just celebrated her 12th birthday), Marshall tells us of her journey from Ukraine to Centerville (see story above).

Weiss Maryna and her husband, Michael, worked with immigration lawyers to find a way to get Polina in their care. "It was super hard," Maryna says. "Nothing seemed to help. We told them (Polina's parents) that we are sure we can pull this off, and something fell through. It was shattering. We had hours to put something else together here and to find people who would bring her, and then with the legal stuff with the U.S. We didn't ask for an immigration visa for her, we didn't ask for refugee status, we don't ask for any government help. We don't need any of it.

We just wanted the legal way for her to enter the country and that's it. She's part of the family, she stays here, and we take care of everything."

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Polina and her mother, Yulia, of Sumy, Ukraine share their war experiences at the Braginsky's dining room table before Shabbat

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her way back to Sumy once more.

When mother and daughter arrived Continued from Page Three in Philadelphia, Yulia says, Immigrabe a bomb shelter. We were basically tion and Naturalization "just took there the whole night." Neighbors and our papers and they didn't explain their child hid with them during the anything. They just put us in a room first weeks of the war. to interview us later."

For the first two months of the war, Polina says she talks or texts with Polina's family was afraid it was too her father every day. dangerous to try to evacuate her.

"Sometimes he doesn't have a good At the end of April, they managed connection," she says. to get Polina to France. A police team The last time Polina saw her father took Polina and her mother across was for 15 minutes before she left Ukraine and to the Polish border.

Sumy for France.

At the border, Yulia put Polina in Yulia last saw her husband in a the care of friends of friends who took surprise visit July 9. the girl through Poland; Polina stayed "It was my birthday, and he came with them in Germany for a week. In to give me flowers," Yulia says. "He France, she stayed with a distant rela- and two of his comrades, they did tive of Maryna's husband. something brave. And they rewarded "The trip from Sumy across Ukraine him for that. He's in the artillery. He was very scary because there were a does all the calculations, and his guys lot of checkpoints," Yulia says. "And shoot. He says (once they shoot), he our driver was male. It was very dark. has six to nine minutes to get out of It was very cold. And at every checkthat spot." point, you see guys with weapons and When asked how she thinks the they're ready to shoot. You don't even war will go, Yulia doesn't hesitate: know if it's your guys."

"Only the victory."

At one checkpoint, she heard a lot She says she and her family felt of shooting and saw mines on the safe in Ukraine before Russia's invasides of the road. sion.

"You see mines there, you never "People in Ukraine never thought know if there's one in the middle of that in the 21st century, somebody the road," Yulia says. would do this war: where they don't At another checkpoint, the guards talk but send people to be killed and didn't want to let the driver pass to kill. We didn't believe that people through. would march and start really killing.

"They were suspicious: if you are That was a huge shock." enlisted in territorial defense, why are you here? What are you doing across the country? He said, 'I'm taking two girls across the country. They need to get out of the country.' They asked for all of our documents. So you sit in a car, surrounded by armed people.

They could say, 'Go back,' and that's it."

After seeing Polina off, Yulia survived the journey in reverse. She returned to Sumy.

Yulia made the journey across Ukraine again, four months later, to reunite with her daughter in Paris, Maryna Braginsky’s niece Polina in where they flew to the United States her grandmother’s basement during in July. As of press time, Yulia is on an airstrike on Sumy earlier this year

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Maryna Braginsky’s older brother, Igor, Polina's father

Maryna's mother and stepfather remain in their home in Sumy.

"We ask her if she would like, at least, to go to Poland, to safety for the time being," Maryna says. "And she said, no, because her two sons are there fighting.

She's not going to go."

Polina says people should know that the Russians killed children every day.

"While we were going through the countries, especially through Poland — where the majority of refugees go first — we met a lot of people from Bucha, from Mariupol, and the cars were full of shrapnel because the Russians saw people evacuating, and they fired at those cars."

Yulia says the things they saw were horrible. "I cannot believe it happened. But, you know, people did it to people. A lot of those refugees, they say, 'We have nowhere to go back to because everything was just erased. There's nothing left.'

And they don't know what to do. Mariupol doesn't exist. And that is very horrible."

Polina started Magsig Middle School Aug. 17, where she is a seventh grader. She takes the bus with her cousin who is an eighth-grader there.

She says she feels safe. Back to normal. But she wants to go back home. Polina and her mother anticipate the day they'll all be back together in Sumy.

Polina adds that she, too, would like to serve in the Ukrainian military when she grows up. She doubts her mom would let her do that, but adds that her father would.

"The army there, by that time, will be trained by NATO standards and will be weaponized with very nice, modern weapons," Yulia says.

For now, Yulia tells her daughter, "You're never going to get bored here in this house."

Maryna says at least part of the story has come to a safe end.

"It's not a happy end," she says.

"Polina knows her dad is in danger. We're going to make her as comfortable as possible."

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‘We’re in an amazingly good place’

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Longtime labor relations consultant Mary Rita Weissman — a stalwart volunteer in the Jewish and general Dayton community — was elected president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton at its annual meeting, Aug. 17.

Here, she talks about her pathway to Jewish leadership and her plans for the Federation.

in this and that and the other thing. Our expertise in human resources is always an important volunteer contribution. I’ve done human resource stuff for practically every one of the synagogues whenever they’ve needed help.

And eventually you became president of Beth Abraham Synagogue.

People all said to me when I agreed to be (synagogue) president that the happiest day of your life is when you stop being president. And that was not the case for me at all. I loved being president. I served two terms.

Because I was chair of the JCC, I also served on the JCCA national board, and that was so much fun.

How did you start getting involved in the organized Jewish community?

I moved here in the late ‘70s. I was transferred from Atlanta, where I was the personnel manager for the box plant division of the Mead Corporation. I was there for six months, and Norm was hired to be the labor relations manager of the packaging plant. We shared a labor agreement. We got to know each other, You’ve also been a key leader with the Miami Valley became friends.

School for several years.

I got transferred to Cincinnati but still had responI’m still on the board. I’m emeritus, but I go to all the sibility for that plant and another plant as well. And meetings because I love Miami Valley School. then I got transferred to Dayton, at the corporate headquarters, as the labor relations What led you to decide to take person. Not six months later, on the Federation presidency? after I got transferred up to I had been asked multiple times Dayton, Norm got promoted to and I always said no. Being the VP of HR for the paperboard president of a synagogue is very division. So we were friends. We time-consuming. At the other had a lot of conversations. times when I was asked to serve, We decided that we would I was on the board of United get married. At the time, nobody Rehabilitation Services, I was knew we were dating, because on the board of Miami Valley we were both in the same field School, I was the chair of the in the same company in the late board of the Disability Founda‘70s. I had been involved pretty tion, and I was on the JCC board. deeply in all organizational It was just too much before. design aspects of Mead. And We’re cutting back on the busibecause of that, I was involved ness and so it’s a good time now. in a lot of new startups and also involved in labor relations.

What are the opportunities I always said one day I’m goahead for the Federation? ing to leave Mead and I’m going Oh, I think Dayton Dreams Big. to start my own company and The challenge of losing all of Jewish Federation President Mary Rita Weissman consult on organizational design these senior staff people and the because these academics that are doing this work don’t opportunity to bring in all this new staff, and mining have a clue about the kind of people we have, and the the wisdom and the ideas of new staff members. kind of technologies, and so on. Norm had come up I would like to see us do more in young leadership. with the same conclusion about labor relations.

We have a real opportunity there. We have people in So when we decided we were going to get married, place, including me, who have been around a very he left Mead to start our company in February 1980. I long time in leadership positions. applied for and was promoted to his job, believe it or I would like to see the amazing JCC Early Childnot. And by the way, I made 20-percent less than he hood that we have capitalize even more on its exceldid. lence. I would like us to get all the Jewish kids we can We got married in July 1980, and I had promised get. him that we would raise the kids Jewish. So I said, if Given the sparseness of children we have in camp, I’m going to have a Jewish husband and Jewish kids, Camp Shalom is fabulous. We want to continue to I better learn about Judaism. There was never any build on that. Maybe the most important thing is conthought in my mind or Norm’s that I would become tinuing what Federation CEO Cathy Gardner started, a Jew by choice. And the moment I started studying, I making the Federation the central address for all realized I had been Jewish my whole life. things Jewish, so everybody’s comfortable. And for the Now, I was the ultimate Catholic: Catholic grade collaboration and cooperation among all the Jewish school, Catholic high school, Catholic college, Catholic organizations out there outside the Federation to congraduate school, and I grew up in Chicago. I had a tinue down the path it’s been on. It’s been fabulous. minor in theology in college. I was intensely involved It’s the kids, young leadership, and the watering of in the Catholic community and the parish, as much all of the flowers of the Jewish entities in Dayton. This as one could be in the Catholic environment in those is the way to go. days.

We’re in an amazingly good place right now, from I became a Jew by choice and Norm had not yet the staff at the Federation to the collaboration among joined a synagogue, so he was doing that while I was the synagogues. studying this. He called the Jewish Federation and We don’t have the big givers that we used to have. said, “I’m in town.” Federation Executive Director Pe- So financing all this is much more difficult. I’m not ter Wells came and had a meal with him, and we were saying it was ever easy, but it is much more difficult. immediately hooked.

But again, our annual campaign is going up. We’re in a And so, as the kids went to camp, I just got involved great place.

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Beth Jacob presents play about survivor & daughter Playwright will discuss The Interview after matinee

Over the years, she has returned to When second-generation Holocaust Futurefest as an adjudicator and to survivor Helene Gordon saw Faye watch other playwrights in action.

Sholiton’s play The Interview at Actor’s She said the impetus for The InterTheatre Fairborn in early 2020, she felt view came from interviewing Holocaust like she was reliving her childhood. survivors and their children for the The drama is about a Holocaust surCleveland Jewish News, and her work vivor and her daughter.

“Never did he really speak a lot about for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History his experiences of two years in the Foundation, now the USC forests of Poland to me and my Shoah Foundation — The siblings,” Gordon said of her father.

Institute for Visual His“We got bits and pieces. It was not tory and Education. until my two nephews in Cincinnati “The play is full of mowanted my dad to share his story.” ments that people shared Gordon raved about the play with me when I was a to Helen Halcomb, also a child of journalist,” Sholiton said. survivors. Both are members and on “My reporter’s notes the board of Beth Jacob Congregareally gave me so much. tion.

I saved all these interPlaywright Through a Jewish Federation Faye Sholiton views that I have done Innovation Grant, the synagogue with survivors and their will present two performances of children. I had years of those interviews the play, directed by Brian Sharp, on to look back on and see those moments Sunday, Sept. 18. Sharp directed the that were so powerful and so revealing, Fairborn production. and so simply stated. I learned from the Playwright Sholiton will attend both performances, which are free. She’ll lead interviews to suspend judgment. As one survivor said on a taped testimony that a discussion of The Interview following I saw, ‘If you licked my heart, it would the matinee. poison you.’”

The Interview and Two Holocaust surviSholiton have strong ties vors she interviewed had to Dayton: 25 years ago, it estranged children. won Dayton Playhouse’s “It certainly was not Futurefest. the rule; it was the excepSince then, The Intertion,” Sholiton says. “I view has had more than stumbled on what hapthree dozen readings and pens in any home where staged productions across there’s something you the United States. can’t talk about. And that is the crux of A prolific playwright and founding artistic director of Cleveland’s Interplay it: that when you can’t really talk about something, you can’t really talk about Jewish Theatre — Sholiton has credited anything.”

The Interview’s success to the opportu“The premise of the play is what nity Futurefest gave her to bring it to an every child of a survivor goes through,” early life and shape it in Dayton.

Halcomb said, “how to talk and ask the “It’s such a safe space to bring a new questions without being hurtful (when) work into the world,” Sholiton said of her Futurefest experiences in a previous bringing up hard memories, and to be respectful.” interview with The Observer. “I called it Gordon said The Interview “also tells a playwright’s fantasy camp.” us the survivor wants a better life for next generations. In knowing true surBeth Jacob Congregation presents The vivors, that was their goal in the ‘second Interview, a play by Faye Sholiton, ditake’ on their lives." rected by Brian Sharp, Sunday, Sept. 18, “I feel that with the open rise of an2:30 and 7 p.m., 7020 N. Main St., Hartisemitism and increase of hate crimes, rison Twp. Admission is free, through an the more we expose people and make Innovation Grant of the Jewish Federathem aware (of the Holocaust), the tion. R.S.V.P. to 937-274-2149. Sholiton better we are in combating prejudice,” will lead a discussion about the play Halcomb added. following the 2:30 p.m. performance.

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After 2-year delay, students from Arab Israeli summer camp visit Dayton area

By Marshall Weiss The Observer "I don't know what baseball is, but I'm trying to figure it out," says Rawa'a Serhan, 18, a visitor to Day Air Ballpark from the Israeli Arab village of Majd al-Krum in the Galilee. Serhan just graduated from high school.

She works in a plastic factory with her mother while saving money to attend a university.

When Serhan was first invited to participate on this trip more than two years ago, she couldn't say no.

"People told me it's going to be the trip of your life. And I believe them. It's going so well," she says. "It's my first travel ever. There are a lot of trees. It's

green everywhere."

Serhan, five other teens from Arab Israeli villages in the Galilee, and their chaperone visited the Dayton area July 19-Aug. 1 as the culmination of a summer English language program for middle schoolers there, facilitated since 2007 by Daytonian Dr. Marti Moody Jacobs and Jamal Assadi, chair of the English department at the Sakhnin Teacher's College.

"This is the eighth group," Jacobs says. "With this group, we'll have brought 58 different kids over here."

This cohort is from the 2019 summer camp. Because of Covid, their planned April 2020 trip was postponed.

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"We said we'd bring them over when things opened up again. So we did."

Some are now in high school; others have completed high school and are preparing to attend college.

In Dayton, they stayed with six host families.

"We can learn a lot from just visiting America," says Wageeh Khalil, who is entering his senior year of high school in Sakhnin.

Chaperone Husein Yousef (L) and students with the 2019 Dayton-Deir al-Assad He notes their visit to Summer English Workshop after a Dragons game, July 24 the National Underground says Ellen Holroyd, who has path yet but is considering Railroad Freedom Center in hosted Arab Israeli teens in the engineering.

Cincinnati, "which told us a lot program four times.

"That's why it was such a about slavery and slave history.

"The thing I'm really proud of good idea to visit the University It was something new that we is that the kids who have been of Dayton," Faur says. "I got to hadn't learned in Israel." over here, almost all of them are know what I should do to apThe Freedom Center also in Israeli universities or medical ply, the whole process for me made an impression on Osama to be an international student. I schools," Jacobs says. "They're Faur, 18, who graduated high doing really well. I think this met some Arabs there." school in the village of Rama. seals their English and also, While here, the group met "I realized how blessed I this lets them know the bigger with teens from Temple Beth am that I was born here in this world is open."

Or, volunteered at the Dayton century, that today, we people The group's chaperone, HuFood Bank with a Muslim youth at least have the ability to raise organization, and met women sein Yousef, 21, of Deir al-Assad and send our voices — espewho are leaders in Dayton's — a veteran of the program and cially as minority voices — the now a student at Technion — minorities can ask and demand Black community.

"I just enjoy being with the says the concept of the program for the rights, freedom, and kids and helping them, giving is "live together, believe in democracy." peace, and change society."

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By Susan Tebben Ohio Capital Journal In court documents supporting an attempt to overturn an abortion law in Ohio, physicians and religious leaders spoke to the safety of the procedure and religious freedoms that could be infringed with the law.

The briefs were part of a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court fighting against Senate Bill 23, the law that was implemented the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the legal decision that had previously allowed the right to abortion nationwide.

It bans abortion in Ohio after “detectable” cardiac activity, or at six weeks of pregnancy.

Physicians have been consistent in their criticism of the law and abortion bans in general.

Religious leaders have been increasing their statements against abortion bans with regard to the constitutional freedom of religion.

“Senate Bill 23 denies Ohioans the freedom to practice their long-standing and sincerely held religious beliefs,” according to a brief filed July 25 supported by nearly three dozen individual rabbis and reverends, along with Temple

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“(The medical groups) opBeth Or in Washington Township, the National Council of pose Ohio’s six-week abortion Jewish Women/Cleveland, the ban because it jeopardizes the Ohio Religious Action Center health and safety of pregnant of Reform Judaism, the General people in Ohio and places Synod of the United Church of extreme burdens and risks on Christ, and Faith Choice Ohio. providers of essential reproducThose who signed onto this tive health care, without any amicus brief in the Dayton area valid medical justification,” the include Temple Beth Or, Rabbi brief to the court stated.

Ben Azriel of Temple Beth Medical research supports Or, and Rabbi Karen Bodneytheir arguments to the court, Halasz and Rabbi Tina Sobo, the groups wrote to the court, both of Temple Israel. and “the overwhelming weight The religious leaders said the of medical evidence” proves law violated the Constitution abortion is a “very safe medical because it “imposes one reliprocedure.”

Citing medical journals, state gious viewpoint on the people data, and other data sources, of Ohio and prevents Ohioans, the physicians groups said including (the religious leaders complication rates from aborand groups) from freely exercising their religious beliefs.” tion average about 2 percent, “This is not a hypothetical with most complications denial of religious freedoms,” considered “minor and easily they wrote. “Many religions treatable.” recognize the right of a pregMajor complications are nant person to make the deeply “exceptionally rare,” according personal decision of whether to to their research. “The risk of from an aborcontinue a pregOther abortion death nancy in accordance tion is even rarer: bans may be with their faith at nationally, fewer any stage of the on the horizon than one in 100,000 pregnancy.” patients die from The religious ad- in Ohio an abortion-related complication,” the vocates across Ohio said they felt compelled to file a brief stated, citing reports from the CDC. brief against the law to “preThe harm to patient health serve their congregants and comes more in banning aborcommunities’ rights to make deeply personal decisions” and tions, according to ACOG, the use their own religious beliefs AMA and the SMFM, by creatto make those choices. ing consequences for pregnant In Judaism, for example, patients and forcing clinicians religious law requires abortion to delay needed medical care. “where the pregnancy endan“Each of these outcomes increases the likelihood of gers the life or health of the negative consequences for the pregnant person,” according to patient’s physical and psychothe brief, and allows abortion in a “broad range of circumlogical health that could be avoided if abortion were availstances.”

“The removal of agency from able,” the groups argue. pregnant people flies in the face Exceptions included in the of Jewish law,” leaders told the bill are also “insufficient” to court. protect patient health, the medWhile members of religious ical professionals concluded. communities pushed on the “The legislature’s attempt to right to abortion as an essenidentify a list of serious risks is necessarily incomplete, ill-adtial part of their faith, medical professionals continued their vised, and medically unsound,” arguments that abortion is an according to the brief. “essential part of comprehenAgents from the state of Ohio named in the lawsuit, sive health care.” such as Attorney General Dave In a separate brief to the Yost, have asked the court to court pushing for a stop in dismiss the lawsuit and allow enforcement of the abortion the abortion law to continue. law, the American College of Other abortion bans may be Obstetricians and Gynecoloon the horizon if the legislature, gists, the American Medical currently on summer break, Association and the Society for passes bills now in committee Maternal-Fetal Medicine said to completely ban the procein no uncertain terms: “When abortion is legal, it is safe.” dures.

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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the announcement on Aug. 16 after Lapid spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The agreement follows a visit to Ankara in March by Israeli PresiPresident Isaac Herzog (L) with Turkish President Recep dent Isaac Herzog, who Israeli Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, Turkey March 9 met with Erdogan.

2016.

It was Erdogan who Israel is seeking to build on the 2020 initiated a suspension of ties after vioAbraham Accords, which normalized lence flared on the Israel-Gaza border relations with four Arab countries. following the Trump administration’s Turkey wants to be part of Israeli-led decision to move the U.S. embassy to plans to explore energy sources in the Jerusalem in 2018.

Ties were previously strained in 2010 Mediterranean and is also seeking to repair ties with countries in the region after Israel’s deadly raid on a Turkish unsettled by revolution and repression ship, the Mavi Marmara, which sought since the explosion of the Arab Spring to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, but in the early 2010s.

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after Israel announced that it would shutter human rights groups monitoring the country’s treatment of Palestinians, Israel has yet to show sufficient cause for its plans, the U.S. State Department said Thursday.

The comments came as Israeli troops raided seven of the groups’ offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah and welded their doors shut.

“We have conveyed the message that there must be a very high bar to take action against civil society organizations,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Israel has not conveyed information that substantiates its allegations that the groups have ties to and fund terrorist organizations, Price said. “We don’t have that information yet,” he said, adding that the United States had “voiced our concern” about the raids.

The groups — including Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center, Defense for Children International Palestine, the Samidoun

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Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees — deny Israel’s allegations that they have ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group.

Price said the information Israel has shared since announcing plans last year to shut down the groups has not persuaded U.S. agencies of the

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Regarding “the material that has been provided to us to date from our Israeli partners, what I can say is that we have provided that information to our partners within the U.S. government. There are various departments and agencies who have taken a look at this material,” Price said. “Through the course of our review of this information, we have not changed our position on or approach to these particular organizations.”

Price said Israel has said that more information is forthcoming and that the Biden administration will assess it when it comes in.

In July, nine European nations said Israel’s claims that the groups had tied to terrorists were unpersuasive.

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By Toby Axelrod, JTA BERLIN — Nestled in the Bavarian Alps, the city of Oberammergau has one major claim to fame: every 10 years, it hosts the world-famous Passion play, which tells the Christian story of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

It has been doing so since the 17th century, almost without fail, and it happens to be on now, after a two-year, pandemic-related delay. About half a million spectators are expected to flock to the town by the time this season is over, on Oct. 2.

Over the centuries, the play — in which all roles are filled by local residents — has been a vessel for some of Germany’s most virulent, religious-based Jew-hatred, feeding into the antisemitic conspiracy theories of the Nazi years and beyond.

But things have changed, observers say.

No longer are Jews depicted as eternal murderers of Jesus. The play now highlights the Jewishness of Jesus and his followers and clarifies that only the Roman Pontius Pilate — and not the Jews — could condemn Jesus to death.

Such shifts came about largely through the commitment of Passion play director Christian Stückl, himself a native son, who has now helmed four rounds of the production.

He has worked with Jewish organizations including the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League, as well as with educational groups in Germany, to raise awareness about antisemitism and reshape the nar-

rative.

In August, the AJC recognized Stückl’s commitment with its Isaiah Award for Exemplary Interreligious Leadership. Stückl has helped turn the Passion Play into “an educational tool for post-Shoah Christian and German self-reflection,” said Rabbi Noam Marans, AJC’s Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, in an award ceremony held Aug. 10 in Oberammergau. Stückl has been engaged in dialogue with AJC leaders since the late 1980s.

At the award ceremony, he said his greatest concern upon becoming the play’s director in 1990 “was to eliminate (its) anti-Judaism.”

The Passion play was initiated in 1634 as a religious offering against the return of the plague to the Alpine village. In keeping with contemporary Church teachings, the play depicted Jews as greedy and deicidal, proclaiming them guilty for all time.

According to local legend, the plague never returned to Oberammergau, so to keep it that way, the town staged the play every 10 years.

The current run, which began in May this year, features nearly 2,000 local residents playing all the roles (they don’t all make it on stage at the same time). Its covered auditorium holds 4,700 people and faces an open-air stage framed by soaring mountains.

Reportedly, most of the local men involved let their beards and hair grow out during the season.

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By David I. Klein, JTA In July, Jewish leaders in Sarajevo joined widespread condemnation of a proposed law that could further distance Jews and other minorities from positions of political power.

Now a leaked document from the Israeli embassy in Tirana, Albania, which also serves Bosnia and Herzegovina, shows that the Israeli government backs the controversial plan.

“The readiness and proposals of the Croatian side, which arrived during the negotiations on changes to the electoral law, are welcome,” read the Israeli memo, which began circulating Aug. 8.

While most ethnonationalist parties support the proposition, many prominent Bosnian politicians do not, and the leak created a political storm.

“It is hard to fathom how the official policy of the State of Israel could be to welcome the discrimination of Jews in not being able to hold office in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” said Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic, according to Haaretz. “The proposed electoral legislation would cement the current discriminatory system towards minorities in Bosnia.”

“We can safely say that this has hurt Israel’s image among the Bosniak population. It came out of left field,” said former Bosnian Energy Minister Reuf

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Bajrovic.

The plan has been most vocally backed by Dragan Čović, the head of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), a Croat political party in Bosnia.

Milorad Dodik, the BosnianSerb member of the country’s tripartite presidency, and his SNSD party also stand to benefit from the new law.

Both Čović and Dodik have also been outspoken supporters of Israel.

In the same memo, the Israeli embassy also expressed gratitude for the country’s adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism in July — a move that was pushed by both Čović and Dodik — as well as

'We can safely say that this has hurt Israel's image among the Bosniak population.'

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the removal of street names honoring Nazi figures and local World War II-era collaborators in the city of Mostar.

“The State of Israel supports the recent steps taken by various institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which benefit all its citizens and its Jewish community, and hopes that these steps are an expression of a welcoming trend,” the statement reads.

However, both Čović and Dodik have been criticized for their denial of atrocities that were perpetrated by members of their respective ethnic groups during the Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica Genocide, which took place in an area under Dodik’s jurisdiction in the Bosnian-Serb enclave, Republicka Srpska. Čović has also been accused of ordering the use of slave labor from a prison in a factory in Mostar that he ran in the 1990s. He has denied the claim, but representatives of survivors of the camp wrote to the Israeli ambassador in Albania, Noah Gal Gendler, to criticize him over his support of Čović’s proposal.

“For the government of Israel to come out and say this is, in my view, crazy. It’s seen as Israel siding with people who want Bosnia gone, far-right genocide deniers,” Bajrovic said.

Israel ultimately offered a clarification of its position, after Turkovic sent a diplomatic request for one.

“The Israeli embassy in Tirana, which is also responsible for Bosnia and Herzegovina, issued a document in which it expresses the support (for) the preservation of the rights of the Jewish community in the country. The document was sent following a local initiative to change the election law and the fear that the implications of the discussion around this change might harm those rights,” the Israeli embassy’s statement said.

It did not elaborate on how the bill would preserve the

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Under Bosnia’s electoral system, which was established at the end of the Balkan state’s brutal war following the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, high level political positions are distributed equally among three “constituent peoples”: Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats.

As a result, Jews and other national minorities that fall outside of those three groups cannot run for offices ranging from the tripartite presidency to the upper chamber of Bosnia’s parliament — the House of Peoples — as well as countless other local roles.

Though only around 900 Jews live in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority of whom reside in Sarajevo, it is estimated that at least 400,000 residents, including Bosnia’s 60,000 Roma citizens, are barred from high level political roles under this system.

As part of the Dayton Peace Accords agreement that ended the 1990s war, Bosnia’s government is also overseen by a High Representative, an unelected official traditionally selected from the European Union who wields broad power.

The Office of the High Representative proposed the new law in July, which would redistribute the ethnic representatives amongst the country’s cantons, or districts.

Previously, each canton elected a representative from each ethnicity; the new system would move ethnic representatives from cantons with less than 3 percent of a given ethnicity to another one with a majority, consolidating their power in those areas.

In the mid-2000s, Jakob Finci, president of the

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Bosnian Jewish community, and Dervo Sejdic, a Roma leader in Bosnia, disputed Bosnia’s political system in a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights.

The court ruled in their favor, placing full political rights for minorities as a requirement for Bosnia’s candidacy as an EU member state — but no progress has been made to implement those rights in the years since the ruling.

Nearly 30 years after the end of the Bosnian war, many citizens also feel that the age when local politics being divided on ethnic lines should be a thing of the past, and that moving towards a civic national identity as “BosnianHerzegovinians,” along with EU membership, should be the goal.

The proposed bill would serve to further cement the current system, moving Bosnia farther from EU acceptance.

Despite the spat, Israel and Bosnia Herzegovina have had relatively warm relations since the Muslim-majority nation was solidified as an independent state in 1995.

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OPINION

Orphans of two different cities

By Robert B. Kahn Since my formative years, my conscience has been becoming stronger and stronger, and has perhaps guided me to make decisions with a combination of heart and mind that have enabled me not to become a victim of the Holocaust. After many diversions from my intended goals, my conscience has channeled my actions into a successful and rewarding life. I have discovered, almost like a law, that I must obey the voice of my conscience, which has plagued me for several days now about the similarities between recent events and to those of the past.

As a boy growing up in Mannheim, Germany, there was a Jewish orphanage run by a Mr. and Mrs. Moritz Oppenheimer in a homelike setting. My dear mother, knowing the daily routine of the Jewish orphans, always reminded me to bring several of the boys to our home for dinner so they would get a good, home-cooked meal, especially on Shabbat. I remember one of the boys named Arnie Lipschitz. On Oct. 10, 1940, after my family had found temporary sanctuary in another country, Arnie and 15 other orphans, along with their caretakers, were deported by the Nazis to Camp Gurs in France. Those who survived there until 1942 were again tragically transported to Auschwitz where they were murdered. So ends the first story.

My conscience was recently awakened by the unprovoked war by Russia against Ukraine. I bitterly recall that some 80 years earlier, on Sept. 29 and 30 of 1941, almost 33,000 of the Ukrainian Jewish residents were shot by the Nazis after being taken to the ravines of Babyn Yar near Kiev with the assistance of the local nationalist militia, who treated the Jews with particular cruelty. When Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, there lived approximately 35,000 Jews in Odessa, including 125 orphans cared for by Mishpacha Chabad.

A few days later, at the decision of Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the president of the Jewish community of Odessa, 106 Jewish children under the age of 18 were evacuated on five buses. Yehuda Teichtal, the chairman of Berlin’s Chabad, made arrangements for sheltering the orphans and caretakers who had traveled the long and arduous 1,050 miles to Berlin, a 52-hour trip.

The children needed special diplomatic visa arrangements to go through the borders of Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Everything was done for them as long as it was anticipated, such as kosher meals, and to make the bus trip as bearable and comfortable as possible. Yarmulkes of all colors gave the schoolage boys a peculiar look at the various stops that were needed along the route. All received an incredibly friendly welcome from Berlin’s Jewish community, even with presents for the little ones. The 120 adult caretakers followed several days later, on additional buses.

The evacuation of the orphans from Odessa was undertaken because no one knew what Putin’s ideas were regarding the future of the Jewish orphans. There were rumors to bring the orphans back to Russia. In the meantime, the majority of Jewish adults left Odessa for more stable and safe countries. Chabad of Berlin undertook the necessary appeal for volunteers and funds to underwrite the cost estimated at $125,000 only for the trip of the children. To provide a new and meaningful Jewish life for the orphans required immediate fund raising by Chabad, which has reached the substantial amount of $500,000.

My contribution is on the way. This is my story about two different Jewish orphanages, one with a tragic ending, the second on a happier track being continued.

Robert B. Kahn lives in Kettering.

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Shaming women who have abortions is not a Jewish ethic

By Daphne Lazar Price I have long been a keeper of women’s stories, many of which relate to fertility and reproductive choices, experiences generally shrouded in secrecy.

While I am honored to be trusted with these personal accounts, I look forward to, and am working toward, a time when women will be able to speak more freely about their lives.

I have reason to hope that this day will come, because Judaism offers many powerful lessons about the corrosive and dehumanizing nature of shame.

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling – which overturned Roe v.

Wade and deprived women of the constitutional right to privacy that includes the right to terminate a pregnancy — this ancient wisdom is more urgent than ever. Orthodox institutions and organizations that are being led by women know this. Yet many of our male leaders are cynically and willfully ignoring women’s experiences, as well as what Judaism says, about the sin of shame.

In my Orthodox social circles, where larger families are a badge of honor, few topics are considered more taboo than abortion. But I know of too many cases to deny that it happens: One friend had to terminate the fetus of a twin that was posing a threat to the completion of her pregnancy, as well as her own life. Another, who had just given birth a few months earlier, experienced an unplanned pregnancy — this time with debilitating physical and psychological side effects that severely limited her ability to care for herself, let alone sustain her nursing infant. Yet another was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, whose medical treatment was incompatible with a viable pregnancy.

While women are only now starting to share their stories, too many still feel compelled to keep their experiences a secret. These women’s lives and quality of life were saved by Roe v. Wade, handed down by the court in 1973. Yet that ruling never cleared away the stain of shame that opponents of abortion persist in attaching to women who insist on their bodily autonomy and privacy rights. This is clearly still true in the Orthodox community. It is also still true in the Jewish community more broadly. It’s the reason National Council of Jewish Women created Rabbis for Repro — a group of Jewish clergy that works to normalize conversation about abortion in Reform and Conservative synagogues and others that aren’t affiliated with a broader movement.

The stigma also lingers in broader society. Even those leading the national fight for abortion rights still struggle to tell these stories. This is largely a function of the dissemination of the nefarious trope of “abortion on demand,” according to which women use abortion as a form of last-minute birth control. All the data — and there is much of it, showing that most women who have abortions do not fit this profile — debunk this myth.

Yet it persists, and too many male Orthodox rabbis are propagating it. In “welcoming” the Dobbs decision, for example, Agudath Israel wrote that it “has long been on the record as opposing Roe v. Wade’s legalization of ‘abortion on demand.’” Other maleled rabbinic groups made similar statements. Instead of serving their own community and centering their positions around women’s experiences, these men aligned themselves with the unmistakably anti-

halachic (Jewish legal) approaches of their Evangelical and Catholic counterparts on the “religious right.”

Now that Roe is gone, we can no longer fool ourselves that we have the luxury of silence. We in the Orthodox community have a special mission in this regard because the taboos in our culture are so powerful and damaging, because male rabbis who speak in our name perpetuate and even strengthen them, and because our teachings on shame empower us to speak, and to act.

As an Orthodox Jewish woman who teaches Jewish law, I am well-versed in the multitude of Torah, Mishnah Talmud, and pertinent rabbinic sources on this subject. These texts recognize the halachic reality that when a pregnancy endangers the mother’s life, or would certainly damage her mental or physical health, an abortion is either required or permitted by the necessity of preserving the mother’s life and health. What’s more, when Jewish law determines that a pregnancy must be aborted to save the mother’s life, the supporting religious texts make the case without casting aspersions or judgment, and certainly not considering it to be a sin.

Jewish law takes very seriously the sin of shaming — to the point of comparing it to taking a life. To cite a few examples, the Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 58b, states that “Anyone who shames another in public, it is as though he were spilling blood.” In the same tractate, page 59a, the text doubles down on this, arguing that it is better to throw oneself into a furnace, rather than embarrass another. Ethics of the Fathers 3:11, reinforces the point again: “One who causes his fellow’s face to blush in public… even though he has to his credit (knowledge of the) Torah and good deeds, he has not a share in the world to come.”

Yet male-led rabbinic organizations, and even well-meaning rabbis who have supported women who terminated pregnancies, shame women by suggesting their decision to terminate a pregnancy is “elective,” or contributes to a “social ethic that devalues life” — rather than a conscious choice by women to follow their religious convictions and maintain their human dignity.

It’s time to make space for women who have experienced abortion care. We can do this by encouraging our clergy to share their compassionate pastoral experiences with community members (while maintaining confidentiality). When we do talk about abortion, we should place it in the context of maternal health care — a stark contrast to the common parlance referencing abortion as a devastating choice worthy of our pity or contempt. We should signal to women that, should they choose to speak openly about their experiences, they can feel safe doing so.

Before Roe was overturned, I attended the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice in Washington, D.C. A woman at the podium announced she had personally experienced abortion. She invited others in the crowd who had made the same choice to stand up with her.

The crowd erupted supportively. It was liberating for her, for everyone who stood, and for everyone who witnessed it. Orthodox women deserve no less.

Daphne Lazar Price is executive director of Jofa, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She is also an adjunct professor of Jewish Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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resilience, and safety of the Jewish people in our community and nation, Israel, and throughout the world. The JCRC works in collaboration with the greater Dayton community to foster cultural humility and advocate for a just, democratic, and pluralistic mosaic society.

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The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton is proud to introduce our new Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) Senior Director, Chen Shterenbach. Chen grew up in a moshav/village in Israel, surrounded by his family on their small chicken farm.

EDUCATE-ADVOCATE-ACT Principles of Cultural Humility & Jewish Values Working toward an all-encompassing and inclusive view of the world.

Repair the world.

1. Life-long learning and critical self-reflection.

Chen earned his B.A. in business and his M.B.A. while in Israel, and an M.A. from Brandeis University, where he specialized in teaching languages and developing curriculum.

Love your neighbor as yourself 2. Recognize and change power imbalances within our own organizations and our larger community.

Chen enjoys anything chocolate, playing chess and ping-pong, cooking, and spending time with friends on the lake. He has dedicated his career to Jewish communal work and is excited to represent and showcase Dayton to our broader community in the U.S. and in Israel.

Justice, justice you shall pursue 3. Institutional accountability within our own organization and our larger community.

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Sunday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.

Debby Applegate, “Madame: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age”

Thursday, October 20, 7:00 p.m.

Opening Night Rita Rudner, “My Life In Dog Years” Monday, October 24, 7:00 p.m.

Wayne Hoffman, “The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder” Thursday, October 27, 7:00 p.m.

Brad Graber, “Boca By Moonlight” Sunday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.

Sharona Hoffman, “Aging With a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow” Monday, November 7, 7:00 p.m.

Ellen Frankel, “The Deadly Scrolls: Book One in the Jerusalem Mysteries” Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.

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Cathy Barrow, “Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish” Tuesday, November 29, 7:00 p.m.

Liz Scheier, “Never Simple” Thursday, December 1, 7:00 p.m.

Jen Maxfield, “More After the Break; A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories” Sunday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.

Tom Dugan, “Wiesenthal” Special EventSunday, March 5, 7:00 p.m.

Dan Grunfeld, “By the Grace of the Game” Check Jewishdayton.org for information on locations and other important details, or contact Helen Jones at 937-610-5513 or hjones@jfgd.net.

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Sunday, October 2 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Lucas Brothers Farm 3229 Ferry Rd., Bellbrook 45305 Celebrate Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) at the farm!

Bring a flashlight to explore the six-acre corn maze, enjoy the children's play area, cruise around the racetrack on pedal go-carts, and roast marshmallows around the campfire with friends. Hayrides will be running from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Everyone will receive a pumpkin to take home! There will be a special activity to bring meaning to the Jewish High Holidays and to wish each other a Shanah Tovah U'metukah (a good, and sweet new year.)

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MAZEL TOV! Oren Watson, son of Meryl Hattenbach and Richard Watson, won a bronze medal in tennis for boys 14 and under at the JCC Maccabi Games, held July 31-Aug. 5 in San Diego.

He was part of Team Ohio, comprising teen athletes from medium and small Jewish com-

Marshall Weiss munities across the state. Also on Team Ohio from the Miami Valley area were Brody Dowlar, son of Sara and Michael Dowlar; Ilan Kuhl, son of Jean Olasov and David Kuhl; and Seth Schwartz, son of Pam and Andy Schwartz.

Former longtime Daytonian Phyllis Rosen was profiled in Houston’s Jewish Herald-Voice in July. The feature, Teaching canasta helps senior find friendship, battle cancer, appeared in the newspaper’s Voices magazine.

“Mom’s treatments are completed, and she is cancer-free and thriving,” her daughter,

Oren Watson brings home the Maccabi hardware

views have been added to the 15 videos at the Dayton Holocaust Resource Center YouTube Channel comprising video interviews Renate conducted for her Faces of the Holocaust series produced beginning in the mid1980s via Wright State University. Also added to the DHRC YouTube Channel recently was Chosen to Live, a television program about the Holocaust written and produced by Meredith Moss Levinson for WHIO-TV in 1986. Chosen to Live focuses on the experiences of late Holocaust survivors Judy and Abe Stine. The 20 videos in total are also available at the Teachertube channel DHRC.

Lori Rubin, said in the article.

“Her activity in the community, and opportunity to meet so many people, surely played a role in this. And everywhere I go, people tell me, ‘I’m learning canasta with your mother.’”

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After 53 years in Dayton, Cantor Jerome Kopmar — cantor emeritus of Beth Abraham Synagogue —and his wife, Goldye, have moved to Teaneck, N.J. to be close to their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. “What we experienced in our 53 years in Dayton are without question the most important in our lives.

EMT Mindi Wynne, who just became a member of the National Conference of Shomrim Societies — an umbrella organization for chapters of Jews involved in law enforcement, firefighting, or emergency medical services — is planning Holocaust Education Comto establish a Shomrim chapmittee Chair Renate Frydman ter in Ohio. “With everything recorded four new video inter- happening in the world today, views with Holocaust survivors it never hurts to have some in July: Felix Garfunkel, Henry unity among each other,” she Guggenheimer, Larry Katz, says. “There currently are no Goldye & Cantor Jerome Kopmar and Ira Segalewitz. These inter- chapters in Ohio so it wouldn’t

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Ian Gossett, son of Judy Rosen Gossett and the late Randy Gossett, is now a full-time lecturer at The Ohio State University. He teaches terrorism, criminal justice, research methods, and sociology.

The Contemporary Dayton is presenting its Biennial Member & Student Invitational in memory of founding member and artist Raymond L. Must and longtime member and educator Carol Nathanson. Both taught at Wright State for three decades and passed away in July. The exhibit runs through Sept. 4.

Dayton Art Institute Education Curator Casey Goldman-Davis tells us the DAI is recruiting new museum guide volunteers.

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Paths into the Rosh Hashanah

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By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer Kveller The Jewish month of Elul is here. It’s a time leading up to Rosh Hashanah to tune in to our spiritual concerns, reflect on our dreams and challenges over the year that’s gone by, and consider areas for change and growth in the new year.

I didn’t grow up with an awareness of a month of preparation leading up to the High Holy Days. But in discovering Elul as an adult, I embrace this time for spiritual reflection, and I’ve noticed how it’s deepened my experience of the holiday season.

Taking a little time and space for spiritual practice can give us renewed strength, energy, and self-compassion as we navigate this new year.

Here are five ways we can make some time and space for Elul reflection this year.

1. Make a special playlist

Music is one of the most immediate ways that I access my deepest feelings and spiritual connections. I make playlists for occasions like holidays and birthdays, and I listen to them while I’m doing chores like walking my dog, folding laundry or chopping vegetables for dinner — essentially, times when I can tap into the music’s energy and message. I created a Spotify playlist for Elul with songs that stir my soul and help me think about the big questions.

2. Reach out to loved ones

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Elul is a month to consider our connections to our spiritual lives as well as to friends, family, and community.

During the pandemic, so many social connections have been interrupted, and many, many people experienced isolation on a level they had never experienced before.

If you have a friend you’ve lost touch with and have been meaning to check in on, this is a great time to send a text or email asking how they are and letting them know you’ve been thinking of them.

3. Embrace free writing

Writing is one of the practices that I use to connect to what I call my inner wisdom — the voice that I don’t always hear when I’m busy with the demands of parenting and work. I take 10 minutes several times a week to do some free writing, during which I sit down with my journal or a blank Google Doc and just write about whatever comes to mind.

I always feel much better and more connected after those sessions. The easiest way to do this is to schedule a few writing times into your calendar over the next few weeks. Then, open a blank document and use prompts like: “This year I hope to…” “One thing I’ve learned this year is…” or “My prayer for the world is…”

4. Reassess your schedule

One thing I’ve learned about myself over the pandemic is that I thrive with more downtime. As such, I am entering this year with the intention and awareness that becoming “too busy” — even with good things — takes me away from feeling my most grounded and healthiest, and it also creates unnecessary pressure in my family. Use Elul to consider what you can take on this year, and what you can say no — or not yet — to.

5. Include your family

Rosh Hashanah probably feels very far away. But you can bring your children into your Elul practice in fun, gentle ways. If you’re out enjoying nature, for example, take a moment to mention Rosh Hashanah, the world’s birthday, and invite them to share what they’re most grateful for in the natural world.

Bring out your favorite Rosh Hashanah books and start reading them. If your kids enjoy art, start making some homemade cards to send to family and friends.

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How not to ask for time off for the holidays

By Eli Gottlieb, JTA “Hey Allies: Please don’t schedule meetings or events on the Jewish holidays!” So says a meme that has circulated widely before the dates for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, and Simchat Torah.

Seems like a pretty harmless and potentially helpful message to post on social media in the run-up to the High Holidays, right?

I’m not so sure. I, too, have often had to seek special consideration from employers and colleagues for my religious observance. Indeed, being able to live my life by the rhythms of the Hebrew calendar without having to explain myself constantly or play catch-up on lost work days is one of many reasons I moved to Israel from the United Kingdom in my 20s.

However, as a scholar of identity, a builder of pluralistic institutions, and an adviser to organizations on issues of diversity, I believe posting such messages can do more harm than good.

Former Late Show host Craig Ferguson has a great rule about when and when not to speak.

Ask yourself three questions, he suggests: “Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said by me? And does this need to be said by me now?”

The “Hey Allies” meme, which bears a badge indicating it originated with an Orthodox social justice organization, fails on all three criteria.

First, it doesn’t need to be said. Few Jews in the United States observe the Jewish holidays in ways that clash with their work commitments. Fewer than half of America’s Jews fast on Yom Kippur. Many of those who do fast also abstain from work that day and at least the first day of Rosh Hashanah.

But it’s a much smaller minority that won’t work on the first two and last two days of Sukkot. Suggesting otherwise betrays our own diversity.

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A fresh start

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown Although it may be hard to believe, September is right in front of us! Do you know what that means? That means that the football season has just begun, and the baseball season is coming to an end soon. It also means that it is time to prepare for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The first connection between baseball and the High Holidays that comes to

Perspectives my mind is the stories of those Jewish ballplayers who chose to/or not to play on Yom Tov, both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For example, one of the most famous of these stories: in 1965, Sandy Koufax refused to pitch in the first game of the World Series because it would require him to play on Yom Kippur. Instead of Koufax, Don Drysdale pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he gave up seven runs in two and 2/3 innings.

“I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too,” Drysdale said when the manager came to pull him from the game. There are many similar stories over the years; Shawn Green in 2001 and Hank Greenberg in 1934, who each chose not to play on the major Jewish holidays, while Harry Eisenstadt in 1935, and Eddie Feinberg in 1938, did play, with very poor results.

This is just the tip of the list.

As the years go on, there are frequently players who need to decide what is the right choice for themselves. Similarly, there

the routines you have already established?

May I suggest that you take some time to reach out within your community. Due to the are stories of rabbis and comCovid outbreak, it has become munities who have applauded easy to stay at home. When the players’ choices to go to was the last time you attended the synagogue rather than the services at your synagogue? Or ballpark. volunteered at a soup kitchen?

In addition to this connecAt my congregation, Temple tion between the High Holidays Beth Sholom in and baseball, I would Middletown, for like to offer another example, we are excorrelation between cited about our busy the beginning of the schedule of activities year and that of the for the rest of the sports season. calendar year. I have On opening day of no doubt that there the baseball season, are many wondereach player, no matter ful, stimulating, and the previous year’s reinviting activities at a cord, starts with zeros: zero at bats, zero hits, Rabbi Haviva Horvitz synagogue near you!

It is time to return to zero runs, a batting avthe building, time to reconnect erage of zero. It is a fresh start with the community, time to and a clean slate. The same can once again be a part of somebe said with regard to Rosh Hashanah. We ask and pray for thing great!

Whether you choose to join forgiveness and understanding, with a congregation that is new and then we look forward to to you, return to the familiarthe new year, full of potential ity of a few years ago, or you and possibilities. find something else that suits Whether we are focusing on your personal needs, now is the the year ahead in our personal perfect time to begin. lives, the school year that has It is easy to wait for an just begun, community proappropriate beginning date, gramming, or anything else whatever that may be. So often that is being planned for the we begin diets on a Monday or next 12 months, we are full of wait until the first of the month anticipation, enthusiasm, and to start a project. hope.

However, there is no good What do you have planned reason to hesitate and stall. for this coming year? Will you The slate is clean. The future is be taking time for yourself and ahead of us. Make today your focusing on self-improvement Opening Day. projects? Perhaps you are Set your goals, make your thinking of going back to plans, and get things started. school? Maybe you want to This way, when you look back spend more time with family next year at all that you have members and loved ones? accomplished this year, you Will you be fixing up your will be pleased with the choices house, looking for a new job, you have made...or have a new or simply working to find a greater sense of fulfillment with clean slate to start again.

September Elul/Tishri

Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year

Sept. 26-27/1-2 Tishri Celebration of the beginning of the Jewish calendar year.

Begins the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of repentance and prayer that ends on Yom Kippur. Celebrated with festive meals, including apples dipped in honey.

Torah Portions Sept. 3: Shoftim (Deut. 16:18-21:9) Sept. 10: Ki Tetze (Deut. 21:10-25:19) Sept. 17: Ki Tavo (Deut. 26:1-29:8) Sept. 24: Nitzavim (Deut. 29:9-30:20)

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How not to ask for time off for the holidays

Continued from Page 25 Jews the right to speak in the name of America’s less-observant majority? Were a company or organization to black out the 11 dates listed in the meme, it might lead “allies” to wonder why so few of their Jewish colleagues are taking these days off. And that risks exposing any Jew who works as usual on any of the listed dates as somehow less Jewish, or less serious about their Jewishness, than those who observe the holidays.

In any case, those who do observe these holidays have many better ways to make the relevant accommodations in ways that don’t lump Jews together or pry them apart. They can arrange with bosses and colleagues to reschedule, make up lost hours, or use vacation time.

In the unlikely event of such requests being denied, they can appeal to official guardians of employee rights, from HR departments to U.S. courts, which are highly accommodating of religious needs.

I would also argue that having to raise these issues from time to time — and sometimes make difficult choices — is part of what it means to be an observant Jew, and in some ways is as core to our contemporary identity as the holidays themselves.

But the problem is not just who is doing the saying; it’s also whom they are addressing.

In the parlance of our times, “allies” is a dog whistle to the woke who all too often see Jews as part of the problem rather than the solution — as a White, privileged class rather than an ethnic minority in need of protection or support.

Worse, by appealing to non-Jews for special consideration on grounds of diversity and inclusion while failing to respect internal Jewish diversity and implicitly excluding non-observant Jews,

the meme reinforces the far left’s tendency to view Jews as a religious and political monolith.

Third, it doesn’t need to be said now. Uniquely among the biblical festivals, Rosh Hashanah does not commemorate a momentous event in the life of the Jewish people, such as the Exodus or the Revelation at Sinai. Rather it commemorates the world’s creation and God’s judgment of humanity in its entirety. In other words, whereas all other feasts and fasts on the Hebrew calendar are particularist, Rosh Hashanah is universalist.

It is, therefore, a time to reflect on what we have in common, not what separates us; to focus on rights and duties we share with all of humanity rather than on securing special treatment for ourselves.

So how’s this instead: After making your own arrangements for the upcoming holidays, ask yourself whether there’s anything you can do to make it easier for other Jewish colleagues to observe them in the ways they prefer. Conversations will likely be more effective than social media posts. But if you do choose to post, consider something like this: “Dear friends: Over the next few weeks, many Jews will be observing holidays in a variety of ways. Please be understanding and helpful when a Jewish colleague takes off on some or all of those days, and let us know how we can reciprocate when you observe special days of your own.

As Rosh Hashanah teaches us, we’re all in this together.”

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The Power of Stories Series inborn trait. Lopez reports that hope is “the leading indicator of success in relationships, academics, career, and business.”

Studies also note its contribution to greater happiness, better physical and mental health, and overall wellbeing.

While only recently noticed by science, hope is in fact an ancient gift of the Jews. In all early civilizations, human destiny was controlled by the stars, blind fate, or divine decree.

In later eras, it was nature, Candace R. economic interests, unconscious Kwiatek drives, or genetic codes.

From the beginning, however, Judaism understood destiny as the result of humans’ free will choices and actions. In a Yitzi Hurwitz And I Know that I word, hope.

Matter. His accomplishments Revealed to Moses at the are especially noteworthy beburning bush, God’s descripcause Rabbi Yitzi is completely tion of his own name, “Ehyeh paralyzed except for his eyes. asher ehyeh, I will be what I will What keeps him going? In a be,” looks to the future, extends word: Hope. endless possibilities, offers According to psychologist Shane Lopez, hope is “the belief hope.

From Genesis through that the future will be better than the present, along with the Chronicles, the biblical narrative is an ongoing saga of stobelief that you have the power ries left incomplete, of destinies to make it so.” not yet fulfilled, of possibility Hope is seeing possibilities and taking action, not just wish- and hope.

Although brimming with ful thinking or even optimism. unrelenting foes and unlikely “Optimistic people see the odds, Jewish history is also a glass as half full, but hopeful people ask how they can fill the call to hope.

Exiled in Babylonia, the Jews glass full,” quips hope science created the Talmud, one of the researcher John Parsi. most significant religious texts Research into the nature of in the world. hope has led to some startling Expelled from Jerusalem, her conclusions. Hope is measurHoly Temple ravaged and ruable and learnable; it is not an A devoted husband and father of seven, Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz writes a weekly Torah commentary and runs a marriage advice blog. Every day, he welcomes friends and strangers into his home for study, prayer, and conversation. His original song, Shine a Little Light, went viral on YouTube, also the site of his inspirational video, I’m

ined, the Jews founded centers for learning and gave birth to rabbinic Judaism.

Excluded from propertyownership and trades, medieval Jews focused on excelling as merchants, moneylenders, and artisans.

Much later, Jews resurrected the language of the prophets and of prayer, restored Hebrew as a living language and — once again sovereign in the Promised Land — chose for their national anthem Hatikvah, The Hope.

Throughout, the Jews not only refused to discard their beliefs, values, and traditions, but embraced living filled with hope.

“To be a Jew,” wrote Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “is to be an agent of hope in a world serially threatened by despair. Every ritual, every mitzvah, every syllable of the Jewish story, every element of Jewish law, is a protest against escapism, resignation or the blind acceptance of fate.”

In Jewish folklore, there is one major character associated with hope: Elijah the Prophet.

It is said that Elijah was transported to heaven in a fiery

chariot, but he never died. And while his heavenly task will be to herald the coming of the messianic era, Elijah sometimes returns to earth to help those in need, to teach us how we can help heal the world, and to remind us of hope.

Driving Elijah. Cardiologist Blair Grubb had already experienced a challenging day, and he was on parenting pickup duty. As he hustled his young son into the car, an elderly man hunched over a walker approached and asked for a ride home from the community center, having just missed the last bus.

Blair’s young son enthusiastically responded, “Sure we can!”

Although piano lessons were imminent, they were soon on the road, chatting non-stop. When it came out that Blair was upset at the loss of his grant funding, the elderly man inquired about his research, asking several insightful questions.

Later that evening Blair’s son announced, “Maybe that was Elijah!”

Several weeks later, the medical college received an

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anonymous grant of $10,000 for Blair’s research. Incredulous, Blair thought, “No. It couldn’t be.” And yet, no one at the community center remembered the old man, and he never appeared again. His son’s response? “See, Dad? We were driving Elijah!”

Where is Elijah? One year shortly before Passover, Simon Fishkoff approached his rabbi with a question. “For 40 Seders, I’ve opened the door to Elijah, but I’ve never seen him. What exactly am looking for?”

After a moment, the rabbi responded, “You know the Yakovich family who have just immigrated here from Russia? Their apartment is bare, and they can hardly care for themselves. Take everything they need for Seder to their apartment and celebrate each night of the holiday with them.

I guarantee you will see Elijah walking in their door.”

After the holiday, Simon returned to his rabbi. “I did everything you told me, and it was wonderful, but I never saw Elijah!”

The rabbi smiled. “Elijah did come, but of course you couldn’t see him.” Holding up a mirror he said, “This was the face of Elijah.”

In the words of Rabbi Sacks, hope calls us to “struggle against the world that is, in the name of the world that could be, should be, but is not yet.”

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What chefs around the world are making this Rosh Hashanah Honey Cake with Apple Confit by Michael Solomonov

By Rachel Ringler, The Nosher We asked five noted chefs and food writers what they will serve at home to mark the Jewish New Year, and (spoiler alert) they all plan to weave symbols of sweetness — hallmarks of the holiday — into their menus. Long live apples and honey!

But the apples may be in the form of a confit, and the honey might be replaced by silan (date syrup). And in place of brisket and Manischewitz, consider grilled vegetables and an aperitif.

Adeena Sussman

Israel-based food writer Adeena Sussman, author of Sababa, will serve a sticky, sheet pan chicken made with honey followed by her grandmother’s honey cake. To kick off the holiday meal, her Pomegroni — like a Negroni, but with Pomegroni fresh pomegranate juice substituted for Campari. Pomegranates are in season in Israel in September, and are often incorporated into the holiday meal.

Pomegroni Yields two cocktails 6 oz. (¾ cup) pomegranate juice 2 oz. (¼ cup) sweet white vermouth or Lillet 2 oz. (¼ cup) dry gin Generous splash Angostura bitters Blood orange or other orange wheels 1. In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, vigorously shake the pomegranate juice, vermouth, gin, and bitters. Pour into two

ice-filled rocks glasses, add more bitters to taste, and garnish with orange wheels.

The recipe can be multiplied (minus the ice) and stored in a pitcher for up to one week and can be freshened with more bitters as needed.

Itamar Srulovich

London-based Itamar Srulovich — podcast host, cookbook author, and cofounder of the Honey & Co. mini-empire — holds an “orphans’ Rosh Hashanah” each year with his wife and partner, Sarit Packer, for friends who don’t have a New Year celebration of their own.

“One thing we never miss out on is apples and honey,” said Srulovich. The couple samples at least a dozen types of honey and several varieties of apples.

Srulovich offers a recipe for grilled pumpkin, apples, and chestnuts that he discovered during his travels in Turkey, cooked on an outdoor grill (or charred in the oven).

Grilled Pumpkins, Apples & Chestnuts Reproduced from Chasing Smoke: Cooking Over Fire Around the Levant by Sarit Packer & Itamar Srulovich (2021, Pavilion) Serves four as a starter or six as a side 1 small pumpkin or 2 small onion squash 2 Golden Delicious or Pink Lady apples 2 Tbsp. olive oil 1 tsp. sea salt ½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper 12 chestnuts 1 head of red radicchio or red endive Continued on Page 30

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Continued from Page 29 For the dressing: juice of 1 orange 2 Tbsp. cider vinegar 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated 2 Tbsp. dried barberries (or you can use dried currants) 1 Tbsp. honey 2 Tbsp. olive oil

Mix all the dressing ingredients together and set aside until you are ready to serve. If you can, make it at least one hour in advance of serving, for the best flavor.

Cut the pumpkin into thick slices or wedges (no need to peel), remove the seeds and place on a baking tray. Slice the apples into 1-inch thick rounds (cut through the core) and add to the tray. Drizzle with the olive oil and season with the sea salt and pepper. Remove from

the tray and place the pumpkin and apple slices on a hot grill to char for about three to four minutes on each side, then return them to the oily tray.

Slit the chestnuts carefully with a sharp knife so they don’t explode, and place in a mesh tray or colander over the fire to roast. Shake the tray/colander every 30 seconds or so, till the skins crisp and start to open – about 12 to 14 minutes.

Break the radicchio into separate leaves, place on a large platter, and top with the slices of grilled pumpkin and apple. Peel the chestnuts and break them up, scattering the pieces all over the salad, then dress generously and serve.

To cook without a BBQ: Roast the oiled, seasoned pumpkin in a hot oven at 430 degrees for about 20 minutes, then transfer to a griddle pan over a mediumhigh heat to char for three to four minutes each side. Griddle the oiled and seasoned apples on both sides for the same

May you enjoy the fruits of a good new year.

length of time. Roast the chestnuts in the oven for about 10 minutes until the skins start to open, but don’t forget to score them first.

Pati Jinich

Pati Jinich, cookbook author and host of Pati’s Mexican Table, will try new foods from different parts of the world. If you, too, Mexican-Style Gefilte Fish are looking for something 1 28-oz. can crushed tomadifferent, Jinich suggests you try her Veracruz gefilte fish. With a toes piquant, Mexican twist, it cele3 cups fish broth or water 2 Tbsp. ketchup brates different culinary worlds 1 tsp. kosher or sea salt, or colliding, inspired by Pati’s to taste grandmother who arrived in ¼ tsp. ground white pepper Mexico at the port of Veracruz or to taste from Poland. Serve it hot with 1 cup manzanilla olives slices of challah and pickles. stuffed with pimientos 8 pepperoncini peppers in Mexican-Style Gefilte Fish vinegar brine (chiles güeros Yields 20 patties en escabeche), or more to taste For the fish patties: 2 Tbsp. capers 1 lb. red snapper fillets, no skin or bones To prepare the fish patty 1 lb. flounder fillets, no skin mixture: Rinse the red snapper or bones and flounder fillets under a thin ½ white onion quartered, stream of cool water. Slice into about ½ lb.

2 carrots peeled and roughly smaller pieces and place in the food processor. Pulse for five chopped, about ¼ lb. to 10 seconds until fish is finely 3 eggs chopped but hasn’t turned into ½ cup matzah meal a paste.

2 tsp. kosher or sea salt, or Turn fish mixture into a large to taste ½ tsp. ground white pepper, mixing bowl. Then place the onion, carrots, eggs, matzah or to taste meal, salt, and white pepper into same bowl of the food For the red sauce: 3 Tbsp. safflower or corn oil processor. Process until smooth ½ cup white onion, chopped and turn into the fish mixture.

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Combine thoroughly.

To prepare the red sauce: Heat the oil in a large cooking pot over medium-high heat. Add the chopped onion, and let it cook five to six minutes, stirring, until soft and translucent. Pour the crushed tomatoes into the pot, stir, and let the mix season and thicken for about six minutes. Incorporate three cups water, two tablespoons ketchup, salt, and white pepper. Give it a good stir and bring to a boil.

Reduce the heat to low and bring sauce to a gentle simmer.

Continue to simmer while you roll the gefilte fish patties.

Place a small bowl with lukewarm water to the side of the simmering tomato broth.

Start making the patties. I like to make them about 3 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 1 inch high, in oval shapes. Wet your hands as necessary, so the fish mixture will not stick to your hands.

As you make them, gently slide each patty into the simmering broth. Make sure it is simmering and raise the heat to medium if necessary to keep a steady simmer.

Once you finish making the patties, cover the pot and bring the heat to low. Cook them covered for 25 minutes. Take off the lid, incorporate the manzanilla olives, pepperoncini peppers and capers. Give it a gentle stir and simmer uncovered for 20 more minutes, so the gefilte fish will be thoroughly cooked and the broth will have seasoned and thickened nicely.

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For the cake: 2 ½ cups all–purpose flour 2 heaping tsp. baking soda 1 cup sugar ½ tsp. salt pinch ground cinnamon 3 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 ¼ cups brewed coffee 2/3 cup honey 6 Tbsp. canola oil

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For the apple confit: 3 apples, peeled and sliced thinly crosswise 1 cup sugar 1 Tbsp. honey 2 cinnamon sticks 1 vanilla bean, split 3 cloves 1. For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. With a rack in the middle. Line two 5-by-9-inch loaf pans with oiled parchment paper. Combine the flour and baking soda Polish Apple Cake in a bowl and whisk well.

2. In a bowl of a stand cake that straddles the divide mixer, combine the sugar, salt, between pie and crumble. The cinnamon, eggs, coffee, honey, crust, she says, “is delicious.” and oil. Mix on low speed until The filling of apples and raisins blended. Add the flour mixture are the flavors of Rosh Hashaand continue mixing just until nah to her. combined. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared Polish Apple Cake loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick 3-4 (1.5 lb.) medium apples, inserted in the center comes out like Granny Smith clean, about 30 minutes. Dejuice of ½ a lemon crease the oven temperature to 3 large eggs 275 degrees.

1 cup sugar 3. For the apples: Toss the 2 tsp. vanilla extract apple slices with the sugar, ¼ tsp. salt honey, cinnamon, vanilla bean, 1 cup all-purpose flour and cloves. Arrange in a single powdered sugar, as needed layer in a large ovenproof skillet or baking pan. Add enough 1. Preheat the oven to 350 dewater to just cover the apples. grees. Grease and line a 9-inch Press a sheet of parchment onto springform pan with parchment the surface of the water. paper; you can also use a 9-inch 4. Cover the skillet tightly round or square baking pan for with foil, bring to a simmer this recipe. over medium-high heat, and 2. Peel and core the apples. transfer to the oven. Bake until Cut the apples into 1-inch piecthe apples are just tender, about es, about ¼-inch thick. Toss the one hour. Cool to room temapples in lemon juice, and then perature, transfer to a lidded add them to the baking dish. container, and refrigerate until 3. In a large bowl using a cold. Serve with the honey cake. hand mixer, or in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachDorie Greenspan ment, combine the eggs and Dorie Greenspan, food writer sugar. Alternatively, you can and cookbook author, isn’t beat the eggs and sugar by hand sure she will prepare a holiusing a whisk. Beat until the day meal. But if she were, she eggs are pale, fluffy, and have knows exactly how she’d end it: doubled in size, about three to with Szarlotka, a Polish apple four minutes. Add the vanilla

extract and beat for one more minute.

4. Sift in half the flour and salt to the egg mixture and fold the dry ingredients into the batter. Sift in the remaining flour and salt, and fold them in until they are just incorporated.

Be careful to gently fold in the dry ingredients and not to overmix the batter.

5. Pour the batter over the apples in the baking dish. If needed, use a spatula or spoon to smooth the batter over the top so it evenly covers the apples.

6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until golden brown and firm on top, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool for at least one hour prior to serving.

7. Before serving, sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar.

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Ken Burns’ new doc a study of tribalism Arts&Culture Arts &Culture The Statue of Liberty seen from Ellis Island

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above is Rebecca Erbelding’s Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s EfA three-part, six-hour PBS forts to Save the Jews of Europe (2018). The series directed by Ken Burns, author, associated with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in WashingLynn Novick & Sarah Botstein ton, asks us to embrace four somewhat Review By Martin Gottlieb conflicting truths at the same time: 1.

Special To The Observer American and Western efforts to prevent The Ken Burns operation now tells or minimize the Holocaust were, in the the American angle of the Holocaust: big picture, pathetic. 2. There are some The U.S. and the Holocaust, to be aired reasons that ameliorate the case against on PBS in September in three two-hour the Allied authorities. 3. This doesn’t episodes. Major aspects of the story mean nobody did anything. Thousands have been told before, but never in a of lives were actually saved through Alproject with the reach of a Burns effort. lied (and neutral) efforts. But, 4., it was As in previous projects, Burns relies very difficult. on the work of historians rather than The Rescue Board didn’t get going emphasizing new discoveries. To make until 1943, by which time the six million the point, he involves historians deeply figure had been two-thirds reached. In in his presentations. One of the ’43, the death tolls were rising major works he relies on this more slowly in part because time — one that is of special so many people were already interest — is more recent. dead.

The general view Burns presBurns goes back earlier, of ents is widely if not universally course. The first of his three embraced among historians episodes focuses much on the who have done book-length effort of Germans to escape works on America in the HoloHitler in the 1930s. The Amercaust. But if there is a limit to ican angle is ugly. After the Rebecca Erbelding what will be new to the welldecades following massive informed, there is much to be said for European immigration around the turn reaching Burns’ general audience. of the century, this country had turned Anybody who knows about the Hoagainst immigration in the 1920s, enactlocaust must wonder about the question ing significant quotas. In the ‘30s, the “Where were the Allies?” How could politicians — with good reason — saw this long-term horror have happened the public as still insistent on only small despite the people we think of as the numbers allowed to get in. The people good guys, not to mention that the good seeking exceptions to those quotas in the guys had the power necessary to win ‘30s were Jewish; that made flexibility the war? Where was that power? This all the harder to find. Antisemitism was is too big a question to be left to historirampant in powerful quarters, most cal seminars. It goes to what Americans especially the State Department, the think about their own country. center of the debate within the Franklin The new scholarship mentioned Roosevelt administration.

Looking back, the special tragedy is that the numbers of potential immiThe U.S. and the Holocaust, a threegrants from Germany were manageable part, six-hour PBS series, will have its for a country of the geographic size initial broadcast via ThinkTV September of the U.S., in cooperation with other 18-20. countries. If immigration doesn’t stand PBS and the International Rescue out as a magic solution for a problem Committee will also present a one-hour involving six million people, what about virtual conversation with Ken Burns at for a population one twelfth that size?

7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 8. Register at Germany didn’t have many more than pbs.vye.live/ken-burns-september-8. The a half million Jews when Hitler came to conversation will be made available for power. By the beginning of the war — streaming. but long before American involvement

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— Germany had only about 300,000.

But that left a little room for maneuBut as those numbers suggest, Germany was not the heart of the Holovering. In the story of the Erbelding book — a story worthy of a major mocaust, at least in numbers of victims.

Hitler’s early policy was not to kill tion picture — a group of people at the all the Jews in Germany. Gradually, Treasury Department rose up against however, the effort built to drive them the antisemitism and caution at the out of Germany. When the war began, State Department. The Treasury people the Nazis adopted the same approach worked for the only Jew in the cabinet, to Jews all over Europe. By that time, Henry Morgenthau Jr. He seems to have American policy on immigration was played the role of ultimate helper rather infected by the fear that the immigrants than creator of the effort. would include spies; so getting admitted What the Rescue Board did is a comto this country became all the harder. plicated story, partly because different The Nazis were people tried different having difficulty things to help differAs the horrors were getting Jews out of ent Jewish groups. The happening, the victims story is summarized Europe. So, author Erbelding points out couldn’t believe it tightly in the Burns in the series, they depiece. At the heart is that some in this councided two years after themselves. It all the start of the war seemed unimaginable, try knew of people that the Jews should in Europe who were otherworldly, be killed. trying desperately to impossible. So how This made 1942 help Jews, but needed a pivotal year. The money to do so. could others be Holocaust got into full One of the striking swing quickly. But it expected to believe? aspects of the story wasn’t announced. is that many crucial People who knew about it or believed it players were not government officials, was happening were having difficulty but just people – and organizations – convincing others, including those in trying to do the right thing. The State power. One survivor quoted in the Department was leery of sending them series says that even as the horrors were money, partly for fear the money would happening, the victims couldn’t believe get into enemy hands. it themselves. It all seemed unimagiThe Treasury people — remember the nable, otherworldly, impossible. So how name John Pehle, at least, a Christian lawyer from Nebraska; he deserves it could others be expected to believe?

— ultimately wangled some money and Burns charts who rejected the truth, did their best to get it to the people who who fought for it, and how it graducould do the most with it. ally spread. When Under Secretary of Nobody knows how many Jews were State Sumner Welles grasped that the saved as the result of various efforts. Auunspeakable was true in late ‘42, he reported publicly that two million Jews thor Erbelding says “tens of thousands.” had been killed. The actual number then Famous Swedish rescuer Raoul Walwas four million. lenberg was associated with the Rescue Even when the existence of the HoBoard. One estimate has his efforts savlocaust was known, the U.S. response ing 120,000 lives. was limited. Roosevelt and his advisors The Burns documentary deals with believed all efforts must be bent toward other central questions involving Ameriwinning the war as quickly as possible; cans, including why Auschwitz wasn’t that would benefit the most people. bombed, an option seriously considered.

Major military rescue efforts – which One cannot watch this series these would have been terribly difficult at any days without thinking about the people rate — could be a diversion. who want to restrain the teaching of And always, always, there was the American racial history because they concern that major American efforts fear the truth might make White people made on behalf of Jews would weaken Continued on Page 34 USHMM/National Archives and Records Administration

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have the patience to read all that much.

The medium matters; some media reach Continued from Page 33 some people, and some media reach others. The “others” are not necessarily uncomfortable. The Burns project reminds us that discomfort lurks through- doomed to ignorance about big subjects.

Not that watching the Holocaust series out history. It turns out the people of the is easy. There is complexity, and it is past were just as flawed as we are.

Yet Burns doesn’t try to put the United the Holocaust, after all. I needed some States at the core of the Holocaust story. breaks.

Like others who tell Holocaust stories, He doesn’t try to suggest that a preventative rested in the hands of Washington. the Burns people seemed determined to find case histories that are not relentThe horror was Nazi Germany and its friends. It was such a sweeping, unthink- lessly tragic, stories in which somebody survives and somebody tries able horror that nobody else The Better Angels Society to do a good deed and doesn’t had any response at hand get killed for it. It’s difficult to that would have done any do that and still convey what more than help a little. must be conveyed about the More lives might have sweeping nature of the Holobeen saved, but probably not caust calamity. But the effort millions more. is natural and worthwhile.

Ken Burns has come in for And it ties us to survivors, the some criticism for past work. people who have the stories Some think a new attempt at to tell. telling the story of the AmeriIn our time, race, ethniccan Civil War is in order. ity, and religion are dividers They say Burns’ very famous Ken Burns in politics around the world series focuses too little on the more than they have been through much horrors of slavery and the importance of its role, and too much on the views of of our lives. Conflict between ideologies is taking a back seat to conflicts between Shelby Foote, a historian suspected of what might be called tribes. some sympathy for the South.

So it’s a good time to focus on the But the Burns operation is a national Hitler era and the Nazi obsession with treasure. It fosters among millions of tribes, with the Nazi determination to Americans a sense of history, a feel for understand and explain nearly everythe past and its impact on the present, a thing in terms of good tribes and bad feel they otherwise wouldn’t have. tribes. Even in this country, tribalism Yes, similar information is available in books. But millions of Americans who was powerful. It always has been, and that needs to be understood, discomforthave a certain curiosity and the intelligence to confront difficult subjects don’t ing or not.

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Culinary historian, Koshersoul author keynotes Yellow Springsbased Black Farming Conference

By Andrew Esensten, J. The cover of Michael Twitty’s new book shows the culinary historian and chef with several multicolored challahs in front of him. There is a rainbow Pride one, a blue-and-white Israeli flag one, and a red-black-and-green Pan-African flag one. The largest loaf includes all of the colors of the other three.

“The challot on the front are done purposely to represent all parts of me,” Twitty said. “I wanted people to understand that this is how all of us are. We’re all a braid. I’m kind of blatant about the idea that being American is by default being intersectional.”

Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew is the second part of a trilogy of autobiographical books by Twitty, who identifies as “Afro-ashke-phardi” and gay. The first installment, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, won the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the James Beard Foundation.

The new book went on sale Aug. 9.

Twitty will present a virtual keynote Sept. 10 for the Black Farming Conference: Roots, Food & Storytelling, presented by the Yellow Springs-based Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice, Central State University, Antioch College, and the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center.

“Koshersoul” — a term Twitty uses to mean “the nexus of the essence of Blackness and Jewishness” — is part memoir, part history of Black Jewish customs and foodways, and part cookbook.

There are vignettes from his life, including when he attended synagogue for the Michael Twitty will present a virtual keynote for the Black Farming Conference: Roots, Food & Storytelling, at 1 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 10. The conference is presented by the Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice, Central State University, Antioch College, and the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center. For registration information, go to agrariacenter.org or contact Ariella Brown, Brownariella@gmail.com.

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first time in Maryland, his first trip to Israel on Birthright, and his experiences as a Hebrew school teacher. He also writes about the alienation he has felt in Jewish spaces. For example, he notes that he carries his conversion certificate — which he refers to as his “freedom papers” — to prove his Jewishness whenever it is called into question.

“When someone claims they can’t see my Jewish soul, I can throw the papers in their face and tell them to get their soul checked,” he writes.

Koshersoul also contains interviews with other prominent Black Jews, including Tema Smith and Rabbi Shais Rishon aka MaNishtana, as well as dozens of original or adapted recipes organized by Jewish holidays. There are recipes for “koshersoul collards,” yam kugel, black-eyed pea hummus, and brisket prepared with the berbere spice used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

“It is in many ways a love letter to Jewish peoplehood,” Twitty said of the book. “But it’s also a reminder to (nonJewish) Black folks that we (Jews) are Black, too.”

Twitty has appeared on episodes of Padma Lakshmi’s Hulu series Taste the Nation and Michelle Obama’s Waffles & Mochi, a cooking show for kids. Earlier this year, he launched a MasterClass in which he teaches online lessons on researching one’s culinary roots. He also sells his own Cooking Gene collection of spices through Spice Tribe.

He said he feels a strong responsibility to use his platform to celebrate what it means to be Black and Jewish and to speak out against ignorance and bigotry.

“Gratefully, there’s many others of us out there who also shoulder this burden,” he said.

“I want people to know that being Black and being Jewish is not an anomaly or a rare thing,” he writes in Koshersoul. “I want people to know how these two identities have such a rich history that the lessons we’ve learned across time and space complement each other and have so much to teach us about community, self-determination, diaspora, nomadism, and collective liberation.”

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Teen star gets ‘most expensive bar mitzvah ever’ in Netflix 13: The Musical Arts&Culture

By Julia Gergely New York Jewish Week When Eli Golden started eighth grade at a Westchester, N.Y. public school last fall, he had the ultimate answer to the standard question: “What did you do over the summer?”

While his friends and classmates recounted tales of sleepaway camp and summer school, “I was just filming a little movie, that’s all,” Golden, 14, said. And it’s true: Golden had spent last summer in Ontario, Canada filming Netflix’s movie adaptation of 13: The Musical, which premiered on the platform Aug. 12.

Golden stars as Evan Goldman, a 13-year-old prepping for his upcoming bar mitzvah and living his best life on the Upper West Side. When his parents get divorced, he is forced to move with his mother back into her childhood home — inconveniently located in the small town of Walkerton, Ind. “Representation in this movie for Jewish people is amazing,” Golden said. “When I was younger, I’d always watch Christmas movies. I never watched a Chanukah movie. I feel so lucky that I’m able to be the representation that when I was younger I didn’t have.”

The film is adapted from the musical that opened on Broadway in 2008 and ran for 108 performances, and returned Off-Broadway in 2011. Jason Robert Brown wrote the music and lyrics and Dan Elish and Robert Horn wrote the book.

In the show and film, young Evan Goldman grapples with his parents’ divorce, prepares for his impending bar mitzvah, and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school.

A recurring theme in the film is the small-town community’s general ignorance about Jews and Judaism. “Come on, I’ll show you the hillside where everyone waits for the Resurrection,” says a new friend as she shows him around the neighborhood.

No one seems to understand the importance of a bar mitzvah party — which Evan thinks is the most important moment of his middle school life. On the first day of school, Evan invites his classmates to his bar mitzvah. “It’s this Jewish thing where they make you talk backwards and everyone gets circumcised,” one uninformed

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student interjects before Evan has time to explain.

Golden grew up Jewish in Westchester, where all his friends were Jewish as well.

His experience on set, however, sometimes mirrored Evan’s in the film.

“On set, I really was (the only Jewish kid) for the most part, so it was fun to act it out,” he said.

“I could sympathize with my (character) because I was in that situation, quite literally. At the same time, I think being able to stay with a clique, but being able to open up to new people is really important, which is a great part of the movie.”

Golden has been acting in commercials since age 6 and has had small parts in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black and The Wizard of Lies, the HBO film starring Robert de Niro as the late Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff. But 13 is his first big role — and it’s especially meaningful, he said, that it’s a Jewish one.

Golden said the bar mitzvah scene was his favorite one to film. By the end of the movie, Evan is seen chanting his Haftarah in Hebrew in front of his new classmates. He then transitions into a d’var Torah — a talk about that week’s Torah portion — which, because it’s a musical, involves breaking out into a song, A Little More Homework: “If you stand here behind me and you call me a man and you’re counting on me to come through, you should know that I’ll give you the best that I can, but we all have a little more homework to do.”

In some ways, Golden said the scene was a stand-in for the bar mitzvah he didn’t have in real life. “’I’m not going to have my bar mitzvah (in real life),

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“I guess you could say I had the most expensive bar mitzvah ever,” he added.

Golden acts alongside veteran Jewish actors Debra Messing, Josh Peck and Rhea Perlman, who play his mother, rabbi, and grandmother, respectively.

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Continued from Page 13 Ahead of this year’s performances, Stückl inaugurated a pilgrimage to Israel for the principal actors.

He has been trying to view the play through the eyes of Jewish viewers, and to that end has met with Jewish leaders and with students, noted Jo Frank, director of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk, a Berlin-based scholarship program for gifted Jewish students.

ELES students first met with Stückl in Oberammergau some 11 years ago, and they have met with him again recently, Frank said.

Stückl had invited them not just to have Jews in the audience, but so that he could get their feedback before and after.

“It was really impressive, because he is always trying to reform the text in particular,” Frank said in a telephone interview. “And within the Christian setting, this is an interesting task to undertake, because the Oberammergau Festspiele still has this very strange papal

status: the idea that what they show is basically the truth.”

In that context, to change things is “highly commendable. What he has done is reform and bend the rules as far as he could.”

This year, Stückl also engaged a Muslim actor, which “would have been unthinkable 10 years ago,” Frank added.

“He really does deserve all the praise that he gets.”

“For over 300 years we have told the story of Jesus in a spirit that has led to prejudice and hatred. For over 1,900 years the Church had told that the Jews murdered Jesus,” Stückl said at the award ceremony, noting that an American rabbi who saw the play in 1901 — Josepf Krauskopf — came away despondent, doubting that Jews would ever be “cleared of the heinous accusations that have been heaped upon (them).”

It is doubtful that such hate can be fully eradicated, but Christian Stückl “has demonstrated the power of one individual to make a tremendous difference,” Marans said.

‘What he has done is reform and bend the rules as far as he could.’

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This is the third year in a row that Weiss has received a first-place award from Ohio SPJ: also for religion reporting in 2020 and for feature reporting in 2021.

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OBITUARIES Raymond L. Must, a prolific and highly respected artist in the Dayton arts community, died peacefully on July 22 at age 93. For more than three decades, Ray taught printmaking and drawing in the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, inspiring generations of young artists. Ray was a co-founder of the Dayton Printmakers Cooperative and a longtime board member of the Dayton Visual Arts Center (now The Contemporary Dayton), where he established the annual art auction. He was an integral and active member of the Miami Valley arts scene, leading printmaking workshops and teaching drawing after his retirement, as professor emeritus at Wright State. Ray received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. Ray was married to his beloved Eleanor — muse, supporter, and intellectual partner — for over 68 years. He was the adored father of Rachel (Joel), Miriam (Gary), and David (Meredith), and grandfather of Sam, Jae, Gabriella, and Griffin. Primarily a printmaker, Ray constantly experimented and developed different printmaking techniques.

He also worked in many media, including film, watercolor, and, in his later life, painting large unstretched canvases, filled with gesture, color, and texture — always in service of his searching vision. Ray said, “It seems amazing to me the way meanings become compressed and embodied in a work of art.” He was never without a sketchbook, filling hundreds of them over his lifetime. He felt compelled to work on his art at every opportunity. “If I don’t draw every day, I feel like I have done something wrong.”

Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to the ACLU or the Wright State University Foundation for the Ray and Eleanor Must Printmaking Fund in Raymond’s memory.

of 1979, she taught at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Dr. Nathanson served on the boards of trustees of the Dayton Visual Arts Center, the Springfield (OH) Museum of Art, the Midwest Art History Society, and the Great Lakes American Studies Association. She had been a member of the Dayton Art Institute’s Exhibitions and Education Committee, chaired Dayton’s Public Arts Commission, the Springfield Museum’s Curatorial Affairs Committee, and was a longtime member of Dayton’s Landmarks Commission. Carol also served as a panelist and site consultant for Ohio Arts Council, was an event evaluator for Ohio Humanities Council, and a community arts grant panelist for Culture Works. She authored numerous publications and professional talks. Carol was an active member of Beth Abraham Synagogue

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Carol was preceded in death by her parents, Mary and Rubin Arnold of Riverhead, N.Y. and is survived by her loving husband of 52 years, Jim Nathanson of Dayton; brother and sister-in-law, Henry and Hollie Arnold; niece, Raquel Turknett; great-niece, Mara Arnold; greatnephew, Max Turknett, all of Jacksonville, Fla.; and many other relatives and friends.

Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. If desired, memorial contributions may be made to The Tenth Life Cat Rescue, P.O. Box 178, Alpha, OH 45301 or the charity of your choice in Carol’s memory.

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Carol A. Nathanson, age 77, of Dayton, passed away July 21, 2022 at The Hospice of Dayton.

Carol was a professor emeritus of art history at Wright State University in Dayton, retiring after 30 years of service. She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1966 and her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973.

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