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Escape on Avenue B by Hannah Kasper Levinson is one of the works by local Jewish artists/ artisans included in the Look at Us online exhibit at jewishdayton.org beginning Aug. 7. The Look at Us Committee will display art by Levinson and other local Jewish artists/artisans Aug. 21 at the Dayton Art Institute. She'll also talk about her work during the program.

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer In a talk at Temple Israel nearly 30 years ago, celebrated local artist Ray Must made a point that was important to him: "I am a Jew who is an artist, not a 'Jewish artist.' My work is directed to wider audiences and the Jewish themes I find just naturally emerge or are not always on a conscious level."

The works of the late Must and other Jews who are artists or creators of Jewish art — and artisans who fit in either category — will be the

focus of two ongoing online exhibits, and a oneafternoon display, collectively billed as Look at Us: Jewish Artists & Artisans in Dayton.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton has already opened the first online Look at Us exhibit on its website, jewishdayton.org, with works of Jewish artists from the Dayton Art Institute's collection, including Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alexander Liberman.

Beginning Aug. 7, the second Look at Us online Continued on Page Four

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Did you know that nearly 10,000 Ten Commandments plaques and monuments were placed in public and private spaces across the United States as part of a promotion for Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 Paramount production of The Ten Commandments? And those displays essentially used the same text adapted and used in the movie. AP reporters Holly Meyer and Marshall Peter Smith wrote about this in June. They interWeiss viewed Princeton University Prof. Kevin M. Kruse, author of One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. It was the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a North American service organization based here in Ohio, that distributed the Ten Commandments plaques in 1954, which Kruse says was done in partnership with Paramount. That same year, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill approved by Congress to add the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. The National Constitution Center notes this was "at a time when the United States wanted to distinguish itself from godless communist countries" — likely a motivation for DeMille and the Order of Eagles, too. In his filmed curtain speech shown in theatres at the beginning of The Ten Commandments, DeMille states, “The theme of this picture is whether men are to be ruled by God’s law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Rameses. Are men the property of the state, or are they free souls under God? This same battle continues throughout the world today.”

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Winter Memory by the late Ray Must will be among his works included with the Look at Us online exhibit featuring pieces by local Jewish artists and artisans that goes live Aug. 7 at jewishdayton.org.

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The culmination of Look at Us will be its committee's display of works by local Jewish artists Continued from Page Three exhibit at jewishdayton.org will and artisans to be held at the go live, with works by local Dayton Art Institute from 5:30 artists and artisans including to 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 21.

Must and: Hannah Kasper Levinson — • Cathy Gardner, calligraphy whose art will be on the Look • Elyssa Wortzman, fine arts at Us Committee's display that • Gayle Moscowitz and Caryl day and online — will lead a Segalewitz, glass art presentation about her work, • Mike Jaffe, Stephen Goldwith a reception to follow. berg, Bruce Soifer, and the late Participants may also take Sam Lauber, photography self-guided tours of the mu• Marlene Pinsky, quilting seum.

• Burt Saidel, Scott SegaleJewish Federation CEO witz, and the late Steve MarkCathy Gardner said the idea for man, woodworking Look at Us came out of a Federa-

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Observer honored FBI offers $10K for info. on vandalism for best religion of Cincinnati Jewish cemeteries reporting in Ohio cincyjewfolk.com

Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus Society of Professional Journalists chapters statewide, announced July 3 that Dayton Jewish Observer Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss has received its 2024 first-place award for Best Religion Reporting in its small newspaper category (circulation below 60,000).

This is the eighth firstplace award Weiss has received from Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest: seven for religion reporting, one for feature reporting.

Weiss has been editor of The Observer since he established it as a publication of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton in 1996. This is The Observer’s 13th first-place award overall from Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. He also received this year's second-place award for Best Feature Reporting from Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest.

In June, the American Jewish Press Association honored Weiss with its first-place Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in News Reporting in the category of magazines and monthly newspapers.

By Sam Fisher, cincyjewfolk.com After 176 gravestones were toppled in an act of antisemitic vandalism between June 25 and July 1 at two historic Jewish cemeteries, the FBI announced in a statement on X, on July 4, it is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the vandalizing of Tifereth Israel Cemetery and the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Cemetery.

“The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for damaging gravestones at Tifereth Israel Cemetery and Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Cemetery in Cincinnati. Contact the FBI at 513421-4310 or http://tips.fbi.gov with info.”

Gravestones at the cemeteries were toppled over, many face down, and some cracked in half, which has made contacting families difficult. The Jewish Federation and the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati are working 176 gravestones were knocked over in two Jewish cemeteries in with local law enforcement and the FBI in their Cincinnati between June 25 and July 1. investigation.

According to the FBI, the number of investigations antisemitism and it is vile. I condemn these acts and into anti-Jewish hate crimes has tripled since Oct. 7. commit my Administration to support investigators The JCGC is running a fundraiser to repair damaged in holding those responsible accountable to the full headstones, some of which date back to the late 1800s. extent of the law.”

In a statement on X, President Joe Biden condemned U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH-1) visited the the vandalism of the Tifereth Israel Cemetery and the cemeteries July 3. “Know that the current explosion of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Cemetery. antisemitism is real, and it has no boundaries," he said.

“The vandalism of nearly 200 graves at two Jew"These headstones will stand again, and I hope those ish cemeteries near Cincinnati is despicable. This is responsible will be caught and brought to justice.”

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Ky. judge dismisses Jewish Bill protecting students, including from Jew-hatred, passes Ohio House mothers’ lawsuit against A bill protecting students on campus, including from Jew-hatred, passed the Ohio's House of Representatives June 26. The state legislature’s Jewish Caucus helped write the Campus Accountability and Modernization to Protect University Students (CAMPUS) Act, which Republican state representatives Justin Pizzulli and Dontavius Jarrells co-sponsored.

“The CAMPUS Act is essential for fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful educational environment,” Pizzulli said on the Statehouse floor. “This bill not only safeguards students but also promotes a campus culture grounded in respect and understanding, essential for the academic and personal growth of every student.”

Among the bill’s requirements is to mandate Mike Duffey, chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education, “to establish a task force on combating antisemitism and other forms of racial, religious and ethnic bias, harassment

and intimidation at institutions legislature’s Jewish Caucus — Casey Weinstein, Dani of higher education.”

Isaacsohn and Beryl Brown The legislation (HB 606), Piccolantonio, all of whom which became part of SB 94 are Democrats — played an and heads back to the state important role in drafting Senate for a vote, also requires the CAMPUS Act, colleges and uniper an Ohio House versities to create release. and enforce poli“We owe it to cies combatting and our students to do “comprehensive” two things at once: staff training on protect the freedoms “racial, religious and enshrined in the ethnic harassment First Amendment and intimidation” while also making and to establish prosure that all students cedures for investilive and learn in an gating complaints of State Rep. Justin Pizzulli environment free alleged racial, relifrom harassment, discriminagious, and ethnic harassment, tion, and hate,” the trio wrote per a state House release. in May. “We have seen unacThe Senate bill also calls on ceptable levels of antisemitism each college and university and other forms of ethnic or and each higher education religious prejudice. This bill nonprofit to “create a campus is about transparency and actask force on combating anticountability on our campuses, semitism, Islamophobia, antiand empowering students to Christian discrimination, and hatred, harassment, bullying or foster trust and build bridges across differences. That is how violence toward others.” we move forward as a commuThe three state representanity.”

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By Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA A Kentucky judge tossed out a lawsuit filed by three Jewish mothers who challenged the state’s abortion law on religious freedom grounds.

On June 28, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Brian C. Edwards ruled that because none of the three women were currently pregnant — meaning that their case was based on “fears of hypothetical future harm” — the suit could not advance.

Plaintiffs Lisa Sobel, Jessica Kalb, and Sarah Baron argued in their lawsuit, filed in 2022, that Kentucky’s abortion law created obstacles to in-vitro fertilization, placing undue burdens on the process of conceiving a child and violating Jewish understandings of when life begins.

Sobel, Kalb, and Baron are among a slate of Jewish plain-

tiffs across America fighting in court for reproductive rights on religious freedom grounds in the years following the Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade, which granted federal protections for abortion. The Kentucky decision came two weeks after a Missouri judge rejected a suit filed by interfaith clergy, including rabbis, challenging that state’s abortion restrictions.

In the Kentucky case, Edwards ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing.

“In the case before this Court, the alleged injuries of the three Plaintiffs are hypothetical as none are currently pregnant or undergoing IVF at the present time. Accordingly, the Court simply cannot find that the Plaintiffs have shown ‘the existence of an actual controContinued on Page Eight

The judge ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing.

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A Jewish couple was barred from adopting through a Christian agency. They’re now the faces of an anti-Project 2025 campaign.

They describe their case in a video

By Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA shot and distributed by Americans A Jewish couple barred from adoptUnited. “I can’t imagine a better life ing a child due to their religion are the for us than as parents,” Liz Rutan-Ram faces of a prominent new campaign to says in the video. defend the separation of church and The Rutan-Rams fostered a local state. teenage girl for a time after they were Americans United for the Separation denied services by the Christian agency. of Church and State have made Gabe “It’s really disheartening to see that and Liz Rutan-Ram’s case the centerthere’s entire political arms, at this piece of their critique of Project 2025, a point, hell-bent on trying to make us presidential transition blueprint drawn second-class citizens,” Gabe Rutan-Ram up by conservative think tank the says in the video.

Heritage Foundation that has garnered Though Project 2025 was published in intense criticism in recent weeks.

April 2023, Democrats have been soundOne policy proposal supported by ing the alarm in recent weeks about Project 2025 is the Child Welfare Proits goals and trying to tie it to former vider Inclusion Act, which would allow president and Republican presidential adoption and foster care agencies to YouTube make placement decisions based on the organizations’ “sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

Critics of these types of bills, which have been attempted in previous Congressional sessions, say they result in more children remaining in the foster care system while also discriminating against non-Christian and LGBTQ+ parents.

Americans United maintains the principle of religious freedom does not provide religious organizations that accept taxpayer funds the right to discrimGabe and Liz Rutan-Ram in a campaign ad from Ameriinate based on their beliefs. cans United for the Separation of Church and State.

“The Project 2025 architects nominee Donald Trump. Some critics want to expand the abuse of religious say it's a blueprint for ideas associated freedom as a license to discriminate with Christian Nationalism, includto social service agencies, employers, ing reversing LGBTQ+ rights, banning schools, hospitals, and many other abortion, restricting contraception and entities and turn it against countless religious and racial minorities, LGBTQ+ shifting resources from public schools to private, including religious schools. people, women, the nonreligious and Trump recently wrote on his social other often-marginalized groups. We media website that he knows “nothing” are all at risk,” Rachel Laser, president about the project and thinks it proposes and CEO of Americans United, said “ridiculous” things. in a statement. “America doesn’t need Americans United has taken on the Project 2025. It needs a national recomcause of multiple legal cases that involve mitment to the separation of church Jewish families, including the Louisiana and state — the antidote that can stop law that requires the Ten CommandChristian Nationalists.” ments be displayed in public schools, The Rutan-Rams had sued the the Missouri abortion ban, and working Tennessee Department of Children’s with the Rutan-Ram family when they Services in 2022 after a Christian foster were initially denied access to the fostercare agency, which receives taxpayer to-adopt program. dollars, refused to help them adopt a Laser, its first woman and Jewish child because they were Jewish. leader, previously worked at the Reform Their lawsuit was the first to chalmovement’s Religious Action Center, lenge a 2020 state law that permits Planned Parenthood, and the National adoption agencies not to place children Women’s Law Center. in settings that violate the agencies’ Americans United has created a star“religious or moral convictions or polistudded video warning about Project cies.”

2025, featuring celebrities Sarah PaulTheir case was dismissed by a judge son, Arian Moayed, Allison Janney, and six months after it was filed, and the Bradley Whitford.

Rutan-Rams are appealing the decision.

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Poll: Nearly half of Americans see antisemitism as a very serious problem

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In a survey taken last fall by the AJC, largely after

By Ron Kampeas, JTA Oct. 7, 25% of American Jews reported experiencing More than one in 10 American Jewish adults say they were frequently “treated poorly or harassed” due an antisemitic incident of some kind in 2023.

In the Gallup poll on antisemitism in the United to their religion over the past year, according to a new States, American adults overall were asked the same Gallup poll. question they were in 2003: “Do you think that An additional 25% said such treatment happened antisemitism, or prejudice against Jewish people, is occasionally. A majority of American Jews, 60%, said currently — a very serious problem, somewhat of a they feel uncomfortable sharing their religious affiliaproblem, not much of a problem or not a problem at tion, far more than the 25% of Americans overall who all — in the United States?” said the same.

This year’s poll found that 49% of respondents say In addition, close to half of all Americans view that it is a very serious problem, while 32% say it is antisemitism as a “very serious problem,” according somewhat of a problem — meaning a total of 81% to a separate Gallup poll, more than five times the who believe it is a problem. Ten percent say it is not proportion of respondents who said so the last time much of a problem while 8% say it isn’t a problem at the polling firm asked the same question more than all. two decades ago.

The poll of 1,024 U.S. adults was conducted by The poll about harassment confirmed recent surphone in May. It had a margin of error of 4 percentage veys by the American Jewish Committee and others of increased insecurity among The poll about harassment points.

Those numbers align in part American Jews. Gallup asked, with a poll of Americans taken “How often in the past year were confirmed recent surveys in February by the Pew Research you treated poorly or harassed by the American Jewish Center. That poll found that 82% because of your religion?”

Committee and others of Americans said there was The 11% of Jews who said either a lot or some discrimination they had faced frequent harassof increased insecurity against Jews in society, though ment was more than any other among American Jews. only 40% said there was a lot of religious group asked, though discrimination.

Gallup said its survey sample In 2003, the last time Gallup asked the question, 9% did not include enough Muslim respondents to report their responses. It did not give a sample size or margin said they believed antisemitism was a serious problem of error for the sample of Jewish respondents it asked. while 48% said it was somewhat of a problem, a total of 57%. At the time, a total of 39% believed it wasn’t or Among Americans overall, the survey found that wasn’t much of a problem.

2% said they were frequently harassed and 8% said Gallup had asked the question in 2003, the firm they were occasionally harassed. Asked whether harassment and poor treatment had increased over the said, to measure sentiment as Sen. Joe Lieberman mounted an ultimately unsuccessful presidential last year, 46% of Jews said it had, as opposed to 10% campaign. of Americans overall.

For the first time, Gallup also asked the same The Jewish responses came from self-administered question about discrimination against Muslims, and online surveys conducted in May by 1,588 Jewish Americans seemed somewhat less concerned about adults in Gallup’s survey panel. The margin of error Islamophobia. was 3 percentage points.

One third of Americans say that prejudice against Following Hamas' Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, which Muslims is a serious problem, according to the poll, launched the current war in Gaza, there have been while another 41% see it as somewhat of a problem, widespread reports by law enforcement and commufor a total of 74% seeing it as a problem. nal watchdogs of a sharp spike in antisemitism.

Ky. judge

Continued from Page Six versy respecting justiciable questions,’” he wrote in his opinion.

All three plaintiffs in the Kentucky case said they are religiously motivated to grow their families. All three have already had children and want to have at least one more, but will need to undergo IVF treatments in order to do so for health reasons.

The Kentucky law places restrictions on the disposal of surplus embryos, which is part of the process of IVF. Debates stemming from the reversal of Roe v. Wade have led to challenges to IVF elsewhere, most notably in Alabama, whose top court ruled earlier this year that frozen embryos are human beings and those who dispose of them can be held liable for wrongful death.

The state subsequently enacted a law protecting IVF providers from such lawsuits.

According to the Kentucky lawsuit, Kalb is currently paying fees for the storage of nine embryos that were created during a previous IVF process, and she worries that she may be forced to carry a non-viable

fetus to term should she choose IVF again. She also worries about being charged with homicide if she chooses to discard the surplus embryos, the lawsuit said.

“We are deeply disappointed by Judge Edwards’ decision to dismiss our lawsuit on the grounds of standing. This ruling overlooks critical issues central to our case, which are of profound importance to countless individuals and families across our state,” Sobel wrote in a public post on the GoFundMe page that sought to raise funds for the plaintiffs’ legal fees.

“We should not have to go through the emotional process that is financially costly before we find out we may have to leave the state or face prosecution because we have non-viable pregnancies or embryos we cannot use.”

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the ruling and denied that the abortion law hinders IVF in the state.

“We applaud the Court’s decision to uphold Kentucky law,” Coleman said in a statement on June 28.

“Most importantly, the Court eliminates any notion that access to IVF services in our Commonwealth is at risk. Today’s opinion is a welcome reassurance to the many Kentuckians seeking to become parents.”

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Legal scholar Noah Feldman on The Ten Commandments, Christian nationalism, the Jewish future of church & state Jewish theology. The extreme emphasis on The Ten

By Andrew Silow-Carroll Commandments that you get in the Christian tradiOne week after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed tion might be a little more exaggerated than what you legislation requiring that The Ten Commandments be would find in Jewish tradition. But in Jewish tradition, displayed in every public classroom in the state, nine they’re still very darn important. They’re emblematic families — including three Jewish families — filed suit of the covenant between God and Israel, which is why in federal court saying the law was unconstitutional. you’re seeing them in so many synagogues.

The law and the challenge set up an important church-state test, especially now that the U.S. Supreme But in terms of United States law, these are disCourt has shown it is much friendlier to the role of tinctly religious declarations. There’s no pretending religion in public life than any court in recent years. that they’re kind of, you know, global, ethical The law also invites a showdown between guidelines that everyone can buy into. civil liberties groups and politicians they The Ten Commandments are as religious as say are promoting “Christian nationalism,” anything could be because they start with “I am or what Rachel Laser, president and CEO of the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Americans United for Separation of Church land of Egypt.” If that’s not a religious sentence, and State, defines as “a political ideology rootthere is no such thing as a religious sentence. That ed in the belief that America was created for said, it’s a complicated question in American law, European Christians, and that our laws must and whether something that has religious origins codify, reflect, and perpetuate this privilege.” might be transformed over time into a more secuLandry and his supporters say that The Ten Noah Feldman lar formulation. My own view is that that has not Commandments may be biblical but are also happened to The Ten Commandments. a historical document that has helped shape U.S. law.

“If you want to respect the rule of law,” said Landry, Louisiana’s governor wants to display The Ten “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which Commandments in every public-school classroom. was Moses.”

You’ve written about previous Ten Commandments Similarly, Oklahoma’s schools superintendent on challenges and how the Supreme Court’s June 2022 June 27 directed all public schools to teach the Bible, decision, Kennedy v. Bremerton, “overturned all exsaying, “The Bible is an indispensable historical and isting jurisprudence about the separation of church cultural touchstone.” and state.” How so?

To understand these competing claims, I spoke to If this were any year between say 1970 and 2022, Noah Feldman, not only the Felix Frankfurter Profesit would be a no-brainer that the display of The Ten sor of Law at Harvard University, where he teaches a Commandments is obviously unconstitutional. But in class on the First Amendment, but the author of a new book, To Be a Jew Today, his “field guide” to the diverse 2022, the Supreme Court threw out 50 years of precedent. Before then, under the so-called Lemon test, a beliefs and attitudes of contemporary Jews when it law needed a primarily secular purpose so as not to comes to God, Israel, and peoplehood. Feldman told violate the Establishment Clause. Now the Court has me he got a “spectacular first-class Jewish education” said it will rely on “history and tradition” to decide at the Maimonides School, a private Orthodox Jewsuch cases. ish day school in Brookline, Mass. He is the author of Louisiana is going to argue that by history and nine previous books. Our conversation was edited for tradition, there’s nothing wrong with The Ten Comlength and clarity. mandments being displayed in public places, and they will point to a handful of contexts in which The Let's talk about the religious significance of The Ten Ten Commandments are displayed in which it has not Commandments in Jewish religious life. I see the been ruled unconstitutional — including, for example, tablets in every synagogue. But are they the basis of a statue on the grounds of the Texas Capitol building.

Jewish belief the way the Louisiana governor thinks The Supreme Court upheld that particular display on they are the basis of Western morality? the grounds that it had been there for a long time and In Jewish tradition, The Ten Commandments have no one had really ever objected to it before. gotten special treatment as being an especially imporOpponents of the law will say to the contrary: tant expression of God’s desires for the Jewish people.

Number one, the Capitol building is not in a classBut they have not been made into super law higher room where everyone is obligated to be. Number two, than the other 603 commandments in the way we’re familiar to hearing from people of other religious tradi- there’s a big difference between a statue erected, in that case, by something called the Fraternal Order of tions. The Bible treats them as highly significant and Eagles to promote The Ten Commandments movie at the according to both the Book of Exodus and the Book of impetus of its director, Cecil B. DeMille, and a brandDeuteronomy, they were spoken by God at Sinai in a new law, intended to inculcate a religious message. way that the 600,000-plus assembled Israelites could actually understand what was being said, as God was How might this court rule if the case makes it there? speaking, as opposed to the rest of the Torah.

There are three things they can do. They can deviate In synagogue, The Ten Commandments are read from “history and tradition” and go back to some verthree times a year — twice when their passages come sion of the idea that there’s something wrong with a up in the annual cycle and one time on the festival of display that clearly sends a religious message.

Shavuot. Traditionally, the whole congregation stands Option B, they could apply history and tradition. up. But they don’t have the same role that they’ve And under Option B, there’s subset one and subset played in Christian theology, where there’s a whole two. B-1 would be they could say this violates hiscomplex distinction between the first table and the tory and tradition: “Louisiana never had these things second table and those commandments which are divine and those which are more ethical. There’s a whole in their classrooms. We haven’t had these kinds of complex Christian theology which is different from the religious displays in the United States.” B-2, they can

So, what do you think?

say this doesn’t violate history and tradition because at one time before the 1960s, the Bible verses were sometimes read in class and those Bible verses may sometimes have been The Ten Commandments. That would be a very surprising result. Or the court could potentially go some completely new route, and create some new tests that they’ve never used before. But that doesn’t seem all that likely.

How significant would it be if this goes to the Supreme Court?

Cases take a while to get to the Supreme Court. And maybe between now and the time it gets there, they would decide some other case that would become their first major Establishment Clause case after Kennedy v.

Bremerton, where they trashed existing law. But if it does, it will become a very important case, because it’ll be the first time they’d be applying the very ill-formulated history and tradition test.

Part of being a Jew today is dealing with the rise of Christian politics, whether it is the strength of Evangelical Christianity or Christian nationalism, maybe the sharpest point of the spear. The Louisiana law can be seen as an effort to make the country more Christian. How is that shaping Jewish attitudes and their sense of security and belonging?

Twenty years ago, I published a book called Divided

by God: America’s Church-State Problem — and What We Should Do About It. A chapter was about how Jews had played this crucial role in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s in shaping the constitutional rule that there had to be stricter separation between church and state. They had arrived a century before in large numbers, but it took the better part of a century for Jews to make it and feel competent and enter the legal elites in a full way. And once that had happened, it was a kind of wake-up call for those who thought the United States was a Christian nation.

As part of that process, the Supreme Court began striking down explicit religious symbols that previously had been considered nonsectarian. When I was writing this book 20 years ago, Evangelicals were trying to put up all kinds of symbols around the country that were nominally Judeo-Christian.

Today there’s a sense that Jews in the United States face new forms of antisemitism from both the left — which mostly takes the form of anti-Israel discourse that can veer into antisemitism — and from the right in the form of a Christian nationalism that is very different than it was 20 years ago.

Most Jews across the U.S. historically took the view that religious prayers in classrooms and religious symbols in classrooms were a way of effectively trying to establish Christianity as the national religion. Over the last 20 years, there has been some softening especially coming from Orthodox Jews, who have made common cause with Evangelicals and Catholics on a wide range of political issues, and feel less threatened by those faith traditions. The context is now different, and I think that’s a reason for Jews to be aware and concerned. I think more and more progressive Jews will have the immediate instinct that (Louisiana’s law) is bad for the Jews, and, more importantly, that it’s bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.

Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor at large of the New York Jewish Week and managing editor for ideas for JTA.

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in person. For Torah Study Zoom info., email Fran Rickenbach at franwr@gmail.com. tidayton.org/calendar. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. RSVP to office, 937-496-0050.

Children

Chabad Camp Gan Israel: Through Fri., Aug. 9. Register at cgidayton.com. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 937-6430770.

Adults

Reach for the Stars w. Hadassah: Sun., Aug. 4, 2 p.m.

Dr. Jack M. Bernstein's astrophotography. $18 via check by July 26. For info., email hadassahdayton@gmail.com. One Lincoln Park, 590 Isaac Prugh Way, Kettering.

Tour of Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Ctr., Cincinnati: Tues., Aug. 20, 11 a.m. $10 includes parking. Pay your way for lunch after. Info. & registration by Aug. 16 at jewishdayton.org/events.

For more info., contact Stacy Emoff, semoff@jfgd.net., 937-

610-1555. 1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati.

Temple Israel’s So a Rabbi Walks into a Bar: Wed., Aug. 21, 5:30 p.m. First round on Rabbi Bodney-Halasz. Eudora Brewing Company, 3022 Wilmington Pike, Kettering.

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JCC Boomers at Levitt Pavilion: Thurs., Aug 22, 6:30 p.m. Free. Concert at 7 p.m.

RSVP at jewishdayton.org/ events. For info. contact Stacy Emoff, semoff@jfgd.net. Levitt Pavilion, 134 S. Main St., Dayton.

Family

PJ Library & PJ Our Way w. Hillel Academy Shabbat in the Park: Fri, Aug. 2, 5:30 p.m. Free. Register at jewishdayton.org/events by July 31. For info., email Kate Elder, kelder@jfgd.net. Iron Horse Park, 6161 Millshire Dr., Centerville.

Beth Abraham Rhythm ‘N’ Ruach: Fri., Aug. 9, 5:30

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Hillel Academy & PJ Library Night at Dayton Dragons: Thurs., Aug. 22, 7 p.m. $20, $72 family of four. RSVP at jewishdayton.org/events. For info., contact Meryl Hattenbach, 937-277-8966. Day Air Ballpark, 220 N. Patterson Blvd.

Beth Abraham Shabbat Under the Stars: Fri., Aug. 23, 7:30 p.m. Rick Good & Sam King perform songs by Leonard Cohen. RSVP to 937293-9520 by July 23. Oneg to follow. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

Tisha B'Av

Beth Abraham & Beth Jacob Tisha B’Av Services: Mon. Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m. & Tues., Aug. 13, 8:30 a.m. At Beth Abraham, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 937-293-9520.

Jewish Federation & Agencies Annual Meeting: Sun., Aug. 25, 11:30 a.m. Free.

Register at jewishdayton.org/ events. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. 937610-1555.

Community

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In partnership w. JCC, Beth Abraham, Beth Jacob, Temple Beth Or & Temple Israel. Presentation by Hannah Kasper Levinson. RSVP by Aug. 16 at jewishdayton.org/events.

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Bar&Bat Mitzvahs

Bob Marley's grandson Abraham celebrated bar mitzvah in June

Abraham Marley, grandson of Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley, became a bar mitzvah recently. “I share this photo of Abraham and I from his celebration of becoming a man,” the young man’s father, Ziggy Marley, posted on Instagram June 18. “According to the ancient tradition, he has reached that age of responsibility and change.”

The bar mitzvah boy’s mother, Orly Agai Marley, is Israeli and has Iranian Jewish ancestry, per Israeli media. She was “formerly a vice president at William Morris Agency, now the head of Ziggy’s record label,” Vogue reported.

Ziggy Marley (R) posted this image at Instagram with One of Bob Marley’s most his son Abraham at Abraham's bar mitzvah celebration. celebrated songs is Exodus, which includes the lyrics, “Send us another brother Moses.”

On a tour of Israel in 2018, the family celebrated the bat mitzvah of Judah — Abraham’s sister — Ziggy Marley told Caribbean Heritage Magazine. “When asked about Judah’s reaction to being in the ceremony as well as growing up in an interfaith household, Marley, who is Rastafarian and his wife, Jewish, says, ‘My life, how I live, can’t be defined,’" the magazine reported. “I don’t want to be defined by what people’s idea of what things are supposed to be. Yes, I am Rasta, but I define myself. When she sees my life, she doesn’t see a Rastafarian, or a Jewish life or whatever stereotypical thing that means. We don’t connect to people’s ideas of what things are supposed to be. We just live how we live. We live with love and this is what she sees.”

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Bar&Bat Mitzvahs

Untraditional bat mitzvah tallit holds key to tradition Morris Lum

The tallit, with an image printed on silk, shows Noa’s face at the center of a map of Montreal.

By Mira Fox, The Forward As a parent, artist Mindy Stricke found herself grappling with how to support Noa, her oldest child, as she prepared for her bat mitzvah. As a mother, she wanted to guide her daughter, but also knew the importance of letting the ceremony truly be Noa’s.

“My daughter becoming bat mitzvah meant sitting in that uncomfortable uncertainty of watching her grow,” Stricke said. “What happens when we let go and trust our teens to be

who they are?”

The process of helping her daughter prepare for her bat mitzvah led Stricke to create the art piece Fringes, which has been installed at Fentster, a Jewish art gallery in Toronto.

When it comes down, Noa — who advised her mother throughout the process of creating the piece — will wear it.

Jewish teens are traditionally given a tallit (prayer shawl) during their b’nai mitzvah. Often, they're the traditional blue and white, though sometimes

For your Bar or Bat Mitzvah

they're tailored to the teen’s preferences — rainbow striped or embroidered with plants, animals, or Hebrew script.

Stricke’s tallit is customized far beyond that: All the people and things that have, up to this point, formed Noa into who she is are referenced in the tallit.

Fringes depicts Noa’s face within a topographical map of Montreal, where she became a bat mitzvah, surrounded by symbolic details: the blessing her parents recite over her each Friday night, her ancestors — themselves built out of topographical lines — and the initials of all who attended her ceremony, placing Noa in the middle of a complicated web of ancestry and community.

Family members at their own b’nai mitzvah chant and dance from within the topography all around Noa’s face: Her father gazes from the top left, her mother on the top right, with more family all around.

The figures are abstract, their outlines hard to make out within the wavering lines of the topographical map. Yet they’re ever-present, an inalienable part of Noa’s unique self.

There’s something fundamentally awkward about b’nai mitzvah. We take children in their most gawky, transitional state, when they’re just beginning to think about who they are and what they like, and have them stand and speak in public. Stricke said that's the point: At this vulnerable moment of becoming, the community is there to support and

guide them.

“You carve your own path within that map, and that holds you when you go off the map,” she said. “You give the framework, but you don’t tell them what to do. It’s like a garden — you’re watering and each seed is going to come up totally differently and that’s OK. We don’t want a monoculture.”

Stricke’s philosophy of parenting and her Judaism mirror each other, both grappling with the tension between giving guidance and allowing freedom.

In Fringes, Stricke comes down on the side of independence. Compasses adorn each corner of the tallit, a testament

to Stricke’s belief that through exploring and getting lost, we can find home.

It was through accepting herself as neurodivergent and queer that Stricke found she could create and accept her own Judaism. The tallit is a gift of that same acceptance to Noa. “There’s no edge of the world. The fringe of one ecosystem leads into another one.

It really hit me on the High Holidays, this incredible framework and birthright I’ve been given that’s survived for thousands of years. To me, it has to be about that balance of rigidity and flexibility and willingness to be outside and stand on the fringes.”

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RELIGION

CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue Conservative Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer Fridays, 5 p.m.

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 937-293-9520. bethabrahamdayton.org

Beth Jacob Congregation

Traditional Rabbi Leibel Agar Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. Evening minyans upon request.

7020 N. Main St., Dayton.

937-274-2149. bethjacobcong.org

Temple Anshe Emeth

Reform Fri., Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m. led by Mary Rogers & Steve Wyke 320 Caldwell St., Piqua.

Contact Steve Shuchat, 937-7262116, ansheemeth@gmail.com. ansheemeth.org

Temple Beth Or

Reform Rabbi Judy Chessin Asst. Rabbi/Educator Ben Azriel Fridays, 6:30 p.m.

5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 937-435-3400. templebethor.com

Temple Beth Sholom

Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz 610 Gladys Dr., Middletown.

513-422-8313. templebethsholom.net

Temple Israel

Reform Senior Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz. Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo Fri., Aug. 2, 6 p.m. Fridays, Aug. 23, 30, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 17, 10:30 a.m.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

937-496-0050. tidayton.org

Temple Sholom

Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg Fridays, 6 p.m.

2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 937-399-1231. templesholomoh.com

ADDITIONAL SERVICES Chabad of Greater Dayton

Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon. Beginner educational service Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave. 937-643-0770. chabaddayton.com

Yellow Springs Havurah

Independent Antioch College Rockford Chapel.

1st & 3rd Saturday each month.

Contact Len Kramer, 937-5724840 or len2654@gmail.com.

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Rabbi Hillel's strong call to action

By Rabbi Levi Simon Chabad of Greater Dayton There is a captivating story in the Talmud that illuminates the extent to which Judaism values, loves, and is tolerant of all people — and teaches us to do the same.

There was once a gentile who wished to convert to Judaism but did not want to expend much effort in doing so, saying: “I would like to convert on the condition that you teach me the entire Torah while I am standing on one foot.” The potential

(Lev. 19:18)?" And most impor- being given to the Jewish tantly, is the command to love people is to elevate the soul one’s fellow as much as one over the body and to facilitate loves oneself really possible? the connection of the finite huChasidic teaching man with God who tells us that when we is transcendent. And look through a spirieach of the 613 mitztual lens, we become vot is a specific tool conscious of the unity to achieve this unity of all souls and how with God. However, each particular soul the mitzvah to love is a component of the your fellow as yoursingle whole. self is fundamental, When we view our for it is this mitzvah fellow human beings that actually unifies through this lens, we the Jewish people Rabbi Levi Simon don’t see separate betogether and God. ings, but that we are from one We can and must live up source. to this principle. The Rebbe convert, after being turned Self-love is so powerful it (whose 30th yahrzeit was on away from Rabbi Shammai, covers all of one’s shortcomJuly 9) included this concept made his way to Rabbi Hillel. ings. The individual is well in his mission statement and Hillel answered him, saying, aware of his deficiencies but taught by example how one “That which is hateful to you, intellectual awareness does not loves his fellow as oneself. do not do to another; that is evoke an emotion of distress, That is the mission that I try to the entire Torah — the rest is due to his intense self-love. live up to and why there are its interpretation. Now, go and However, when another per- thousands of Chabad centers study (Talmud son perceives his Tractate Shabbat Chasidic teaching fault, he becomes 31a)." tells us that when angry because his Hillel’s answer friend has revealed and teaching must we look through Beavercreek's library has a the flaw and now be studied care- a spiritual lens, we it becomes signifinew name: on June 21 it was fully. Numerous cant and no longer renamed the Carol Graff questions come to become conscious hidden.

Beavercreek Library in honor mind. How can of the city's former mayor and That is what of the unity of the entire Torah current Greene County PubHillel is warning all souls be encapsulated us: Do not perceive lic Library president. Carol by this one mitzhas served for 19 years on the another's faults vah (commandment)? Aren’t board of the county's public and imperfections to make there more fundamental ideas library system, seven of them them substantial. Instead, let that could have been taught? as president. She played key your love for him be so great Why did Hillel teach it in the roles in the building of the that it covers his flaw, not pernegative form, when the Torah Beavercreek facility in 1978, mitting it to move from awaresource is phrased positively: its expansion, and renovation. ness into an emotional feeling.

“Love your fellow as yourself Carol was also involved with The purpose of the Torah the expansion of the county's six other library branches.

Perspectives

throughout the world.

We are now in the Three Weeks period of the year when we recall the destruction of the Holy Temples and bring to mind the spiritual cause for that destruction. The sages of the Talmud taught that the Second Temple was destroyed because of the prevalence of sinat chinam, hatred of one’s fellow for no reason. It is our duty to rectify the mistakes of the past, for in every era that the Beit Hamikdash (Holy Temple) has not been rebuilt, it is as if it has been destroyed in that time.

This is a strong call to action that we need to reject calls of hate and redouble our efforts as a community to look at the true essence of each other with true love.

In this merit we will transform the world and reveal its true goodness with the coming of Moshiach, of Messiah.

MAZEL TOV!

A ugust Tammuz/Av

Shabbat Candle Lightings August 2: 8:30 p.m.

Torah Portions August 3: Matot-Masei (Num. 30:2-36:13) August 10: Devarim (Deut. 1:1-3:22) August 17: Vaetchanan (Deut. 3:23-7:11)

August 9: 8:22 p.m.

August 16: 8:13 p.m.

August 23: 8:03 p.m.

August 30: 7:52 p.m.

Tisha B’Av

August 24: Ekev (Deut. 7:12-11:25) August 31: Re'eh (Deut. 11:26-16:17)

Ninth Day of Av • August 13 The day of fasting to mark the destruction of the First and Second Temples, the loss of Jewish sovereignty, and numerous other tragedies said to have fallen on this day.

The Book of Eicha (Lamentations) is read.

University of Dayton Prof.

Scott Segalewitz received the Frederick J. Berger Award at this year's American Society of Engineering Education Conference. It honors excellence in growing a university's engineering technology education.

Scott served for 12 years as chair of UD's Department of Engineering Technology. He recently completed his service as UD's associate dean for academics and success.

UD Music Prof. Sam Dorf has been named Alumni Chair in the Humanities.

Bill Rabinowitz, son of Bernie and the late Carole Rabinowitz, has been named Ohio Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. A sportswriter with The

Columbus Dispatch since 1999, Bill has covered Ohio State football for the paper since 2011.

The Jewish Federation has announced the honorees for its annual meeting, to be held at 11:30 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 25 at the Boonshoft CJCE in Centerville: • The Alan L. Wasserman Young Leadership Award, Jese Shell • The Dorothy B. Moyer Young Leadership Award, Meryl Goldman • The Past Presidents Award, Helen Halcomb • The Robert A. Shapiro Award, Ira Segalewitz • JCRC Volunteer of the Year Award, Elliot Ratzman • JCC Volunteer of the Year Award, Wendy Lipp • JFS Volunteer of the Year Award, Dr. Michele Dritz • The Joe and Elaine Bettman Tzadik Award, Peter and Joan Wells • The Jack Moss Creativity Award, All The Best Deli Dr. Michele Dritz has also received the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies' 2024 PowerNET Lay Leadership Award for her work with Jewish Family Services of Greater Dayton's advisory board.

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How Crisco became a symbol of the Jewish American dream

By Ilena Moses, The Nosher Crisco is a vegan cooking fat and an icon of the AshkenaziJewish American Dream.

For over a century, the strange, oily gloop has graced kosher restaurants, holiday cookbooks, and hand-scribbled recipe cards in Jewish homes across the nation, becoming a symbol of Jewish American identity and culinary tradition.

But how did this happen?

The answer lies at the intersection of early 20thcentury consumerism and Jewish American culture.

Crisco debuted in 1911 as a product of Cincinnati’s Procter & Gamble Co. It started as a strange solution to a strange problem.

Textile production skyrocketed during the Industrial Revolution, leaving America with a surplus of leftover cotton seeds.

No one could figure out what to do with them — until chemists learned to extract the oil and combine it with hydrogen, which created a cheap alternative to animal-based fats like lard and tallow.

Initially, Procter & Gamble intended to use the new substance to make candles. But they ended up selling it as a food product instead.

The public wasn’t totally sold on the idea. Aside from sneaky CEOs cutting costs by substituting it for pricier olive oil, cottonseed oil wasn’t typically used in the food business.

It was primarily intended for soap, artificial dyes, and explosives. There was even some debate over whether cottonseed oil is really a food.

Eventually it caught on with

the help of some clever if somewhat dishonest marketing. But sales still weren’t remarkable among established Americans.

Given the product’s versatile non-dairy, non-meat status, Procter & Gamble’s PR team decided to give a hard sell to the nation’s newly minted community of Eastern European Jewish immigrants.

One 1913 newspaper advertisement printed in English and Yiddish and distributed throughout the United States, made the lofty claim that “The Hebrew Race has been waiting 4,000 years for Crisco.”

It worked.

American Jews went wild for Crisco — and haven’t looked back since.

There are evident perks: It’s kosher and pareve, too. That means that when the good Jewish housewife has Crisco on hand, she doesn't need to buy both schmaltz — for meat — and butter — for dairy — thus saving money and resources. And, a hundred or so years ago, Crisco was considered

Crisco started as a strange solution to a strange problem.

(or at least, marketed as) a healthy alternative to traditional animal-based cooking fats.

But more important was Crisco’s cultural significance.

For new immigrants, the feeling of belonging was vital.

There was a constant struggle between old and new, religion and nation, and tradition and assimilation.

Here was a practical solution that didn’t require compromise. Kosher and stylish enough for the all-American woman, and economical to boot, Crisco was a tasty, practical reminder that you could be both Jewish and American — and be so with class and tact.

Procter and Gamble’s 1933 cookbook, Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife, cemented the product’s popularity with the Jewish community. Each recipe was printed in both English and Yiddish.

Offerings ranged from traditional favorites, like kugel to American icons such as southern fried chicken and macaroni salad — all, of course, with a generous helping of Crisco.

Despite the economic hardships of the Great Depression, sales continued to soar.

Over the course

JBLCA, Special Collections Library

Crisco Recipes for the Jewish Housewife, Proctor & Gamble Co., 1933.

of a century, Crisco grew from its resourceful beginnings to the heart of American Jewish cooking.

In recent years, though, Crisco has amassed slews of controversy. For one thing, it’s been condemned for ruining the magic of traditional (i.e., schmaltzy) Jewish cooking with its pareve flavor.

Perhaps more shocking is the revelation that Crisco, marketed as an “all-vegetable shortening” doesn’t actually include any vegetables — at all.

It’s no longer made from cottonseed oil. Crisco’s modern key ingredients, soybean and palm oil, aren’t derived from vegetables or even fruits, but

from grains.

They’re not particularly healthy or environmentally friendly, either. So, while definitely a little more edible, modern Crisco is not exactly a huge improvement on its cottonseed predecessor.

Why do we continue to use Crisco? I think that, like with many Ashkenazi Jewish cultural rites, the answer can be most accurately summed up

by Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof: "Tradition!"

So next time you bite into a Crisco-coated latke, hamantash, or even fried chicken, remember that you follow in the flavorful footsteps of Jewish American history.

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

Create or destroy?

Judaism's Worldview Series

Twenty-five miles southwest of Jerusalem, Tel Lachish towers over the Judean landscape, a multi-layered mound of destroyed and rebuilt settlements and major cities from

Candace R. Kwiatek 5,500 B.C.E. through the eras of Joshua, Kings, and Maccabees.

There, archaeologists recently discovered a rare gate-shrine housing a pair of four-horned altars from the First Temple period, the horns deliberately chopped short and the shrine

desecrated by the incongruous presence of a stone-carved toilet.

Such destruction, according to the dig’s director Sa’ar Ganor, is likely evidence of the religious reforms of King Hezekiah, who sought to undo local cultic shrines and return worship to the Temple in Jerusalem.

Lachish was subsequently destroyed by the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, and eventually abandoned during the Hellenistic era. Today it lives again, rebuilt as an Israeli national park.

Creation and destruction are intrinsic to the world’s design.

The extreme pressure and temperature that create rocks

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from organic matter or minerals vive and flourish in exile. also destroy them. Fungi foster When the Romans destroyed plant growth and reproduction Jerusalem, the loss of incalby breaking down dead organic culable numbers of rabbinic matter. In the human body, scholars and students spurred cells develop and deteriorate at Rabbi Judah haNasi to create a replacement rate of about 330 the Mishnah, preserving 1,500 billion cells daily. years of oral tradition in writEven human creativity, ing. neuroscience informs us, first This became the foundation requires destruction of old of two Talmuds (in Israel and preconceptions, judgments, and Babylonia), generational arways of doing things before it chives of discussions, disputes, can embrace divergent thinking and diverging interpretations and innovation. of theology, laws, and customs The Jewish worldview that still inform Jewish life embraces these dual forces of today. creation and destruction, seekCreation and destruction ing their significance in Jewalso guide Jewish daily life. Six ish history and literature and days are for work, the Torah applying their lessons in Jewish teaches, for building and dislaw and tradition. mantling, followed by a day to Consider: rest and “re-soul.”

Joseph’s brothers The Jewish When facing an fractured their enemy, terms of worldview sibling relationpeace must first ship and crushed embraces be offered. But the their father’s these dual forces Talmud declares, heart by getting “If someone rid of the dream- of creation comes to kill you, er. On the other and destruction rise up (first) and hand, Joseph slay him.” emerged from imprisonment Words are used to tell to become Egypt’s viceroy and stories, communicate ideas, ultimately reunite his family. and create relationships, but God decreed that the genera- they can also destroy in at least tion of the Exodus — which a dozen ways, according to yearned for Egypt, accepted the the Yom Kippur confessional spies’ skewed report of Canaan, prayer, Al Chet. and lacked faith — would wanJust as God is the Author der for 40 years and die in the of Creation, a masterpiece of wilderness. creativity and destruction, In that same wilderness, humans are designed to both their children would begin to create and destroy. But a basic cherish freedom, act with fortiethical principal in Jewish law tude, and trust in God. cautions, “Do not engage in Nebuchadnezzar destroyed wanton, senseless, or unnecthe First Temple and deported essary destruction of useful Judea's Jews to Babylon. There, things.” they created a new Jewish “A season is set for everyworldview that emphasized thing, a time for every experiTorah study and teaching, enence under heaven,” Ecclesinobled rabbis and synagogues, astes observes, “…a time for and encouraged new worship tearing down and a time for practices and customs that building up…” would allow Judaism to surCarolyn's beauty. Very much

Literature to share Kantika by Elizabeth Graver. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, its flourishing Sephardic Jewish community of nearly 500 years was forced to find refuge elsewhere. From Constantinople to Barcelona, Havana, and eventually New York City, this fictionalized version of the author’s family story follows three generations, a rich cast of characters whose successes only come to those who believe in fully living their one and only life.

Baseball and Belonging by Ryan Lavarnway. In this picture book for youngsters of all ages, Ryan Lavarnway shares his story of playing baseball as a youngster and eventually becoming a career catcher for Major League Baseball teams.

When he joined the all-Jewish Israeli National team in 2016, he toured Israel to learn about the country he would represent on the world stage. There, he discovered his own personal connection to Judaism and the Jewish community — and wrote a book to share what he learned.

in demand by Hollywood stars Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman among others, Carolyn Gomberg was an unlikely beautician and makeup artist. Her face was pocked and stippled by noticeable scars and craters.

Although famous, she never hid the blotches on her own skin. When Carolyn was a baby in Ukraine, she was told, she had a bad case of the chickenpox, so the doctor bandaged her up like a mummy.

One day, a mob of local peasants brandishing pitchforks, axes, and knives began gathering at the edges of her shtetl, clearly readying for a pogrom.

Her clever mother tore off Carolyn’s bandages, exposing her scabs, and held her aloft in front of the crowd outside.

“Smallpox,” she cried out.

Not recognizing chickenpox lesions, the mob scattered in terror. Carolyn’s scars saved a village — hundreds of people.

Huberman's violin. At the end of the 19th century, the Polish Jewish violin prodigy Bronislaw Huberman toured Europe and America to great acclaim, impressing even Johannes Brahms.

When Huberman visited Palestine in 1929, he was moved by the locals’ passion for music and determined to create a world-class symphony orchestra there. It was a timely venture, for in 1933, Europe’s Jewish musicians began to lose their positions, and Huberman’s cultural project became an emergency rescue mission.

He traveled across the continent conducting auditions, and eventually chose 70 outstanding musicians from Germany, Austria, Poland, and Hungary.

In late December 1936, the first performance of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, took place in Tel Aviv, conducted by Arturo Toscanini.

Along with the lives of the musicians and their families — nearly 1,000 people — Huberman preserved the legacy of a European Jewish musical tradition that would certainly have disappeared. “(God) foresaw the beauty of a tel, a city that has experienced endless destruction and rebuilding but never lost anything along the way,” writes Sara Hecht.

When we destroy to allow the new and good to emerge, when we reconstruct or build anew that which has been destroyed, we too are building a tel.

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Arts&Culture

Hundreds of lectures from famous Jewish thinkers now available at 92NY website

By Julia Gergely, New York Jewish Week As Isaac Bashevis Singer takes the microphone, he greets roaring applause in his Polish accent, then talks about his personal relationship with religion, philosophy, and mysticism.

After he speaks, he reads a short story, , about two demons who encounter humans for the first time, and answers questions from the audience about his life and research.

Though the famed Yiddish writer died in 1991, new glimpses into his personality, thoughts, and work revive him in the 21st century through audio recordings now released by 92NY. Delivered at the 92nd Street Y on Nov. 19, 1975, Bashevis Singer’s talk, On Mysticism and the Modern Man, is one of more than 400 historical lectures given at 92NY that are now available through this archive of audio recordings.

Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 92NY has digitized conversations from the last 75 years, which the public can access for free through its website.

“Throughout its 150-year history, 92NY has been a home for the intellectually curious, providing a platform for many of the great artists, scholars and thought leaders of the past centuryand-a-half,” Seth Pinsky, 92NY’s chief executive officer, said in a press release. “We hope that the

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collection will be an invaluable contribution to humanities research and scholarship, foster public appreciation, and create greater understanding of the humanities.”

Along with Bashevis Singer, the recordings include lectures from major historical thinkers such as the feminist writer Betty Friedan on Transcending the War Between Sexes, and Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, on Judaism in the World Today (1951) and What Religion Can Learn from Psychology (1952).

More recent lectures are also available, including talks from the composer and director of the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, Zalmen Mlotek, and writers Jonathan Safran Foer and Gary Shteyngart.

The lectures span topics from Jewish life and philosophy to politics, psychology, science, art, dance, film, history, music, and women’s perspectives. The Jewish cultural institution has digitized more than 800 lectures in total.

92NY’s lecture series, now called 92NY Talks, was established in 1930. The 92NY was founded in 1874 at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association by a group of German Jews hoping to serve the social, intellectual, and spiritual needs of the American Jewish community in New York.

Long known as the 92nd Street Y, it adopted Isaac Bashevis Singer in the green room at the 92nd Street Y in 1971. the 92NY moniker in 2022 in a rebranding.

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‘I don’t want our cemeteries to be like the cemeteries of Europe.’ — Helen Ostreicher Halcomb

OBITUARIES Donald L. Gable, age 93 formerly of Dayton, passed away on June 7.

Donald is survived by his beloved wife, Patricia. He was the loving father of Lorie Rosen (Edward) and Shelley Keimach (Gary); cherished grandfather of Eli Keimach (Priscilla), Anabelle Keimach, Rachel DiPietro (Louis) and Stephanie Rosen; adored uncle of Ellen Kelly and Rachel Kelly. Interment was at the South Florida VA National Cemetery, Lake Worth.

Those wishing to honor Donald with a memorial contribution are kindly encouraged to consider the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or Trustbridge Hospice.

s a child of a Holocaust survivor, Helen Ostreicher Halcomb always thought about the millions of European Jews who weren’t afforded a proper funeral or burial. It compelled her to dedicate her life to preparing people for their eternal rest and protecting our cemeteries for generations to come.

Joyce Abromowitz Margolis, age 70, of Columbus, passed away on July 4 after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Joyce was born and raised in Dayton.

She graduated from Meadowdale High School in 1972. She went to The Ohio State University,

Even without having anyone buried in one of our local Jewish cemeteries, Helen got involved with the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton campaign because she believed we needed to take care of our own. “I saw the need, not only in Dayton, but throughout the country in other small Jewish communities. It’s wonderful that Dayton is being proactive and preparing for our future,” said Helen.

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graduating in 1976 with a degree in business administration. Joyce met the love of her life, Robert Margolis, at Ohio State, whom she married on Jan. 1, 1977. Joyce worked briefly in the early years of their marriage. She elected to be a stay-at-home mom to raise her three children. She was the ultimate mom. She was very personable and never met a stranger.

Joyce was preceded in death by her parents, Martin Abromowitz and Shirley Davidson Abromowitz (both of blessed memory). She is survived by her husband of 47 years, Robert Margolis; daughters, Michelle Margolis (Ilya Kruglov) and Susan Margolis-Merson (Konstantin Merson); and son, Steven Margolis (Sara Dobkin).

She was a beloved grandmother to Sasha Glushkin, Henry and Jacob Merson, and Miriam and Theodore Margolis. She is survived by her brother, Howard Abromowitz (Judy) and her sister, Annie Roth (David). She was a beloved niece, aunt, and cousin to many. Interment was at Beth Jacob Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Beth Jacob Synagogue in Dayton, the Alzheimer’s Association, or the charity of your choice in her name.

Eleanor Hambury Must, a longtime resident of Dayton, died July 2 at the age of 93. She was born in Germany to Fred and Elisabeth (Plaut) Hambury. The young family moved to Italy to escape Nazi race laws. Unfortunately, soon after arriving in Rome, Eleanor’s mother died. When fascism swept through Italy, Fred and Eleanor boarded a ship to immigrate to the United States. Shortly before they were due to arrive, however, quotas were imposed on the number of Jews allowed to enter the

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country. They spent more than a year in Cuba before gaining entry to the U.S. in 1940. Eleanor lived with her loving aunt and uncle, Erica and Hans Plaut, and cousins, Ruth, Tom, and Frank in Mansfield. She later moved to Cleveland Heights to rejoin her father and stepmother, Lilly (Michael).

Eleanor earned her undergraduate degree in occupational therapy at The Ohio State University, where she met her beloved husband, Ray Must. Early in her career she started the O.T. department for United Cerebral Palsy of Kentucky. As a young mother, she began teaching in a cooperative nursery school.

She taught early childhood education in Dayton Public Schools and went on to earn a Master of Education Degree from Wright State University. She was active in both the local and National Association for the Education of Young Children and taught early childhood language at WSU. In retirement, Eleanor studied finance and started an investment club for women.

She hosted a play-reading group, and also was active in a chavurah and the local arts community.

Eleanor had a keen sense of justice and civic duty. She registered hundreds of voters in Dayton over the years and kept current on political news until her final days.

Her experience of escaping the Holocaust inspired her to write in her memoir: “I hope that this story engenders in our descendants sympathy toward immigrants who come with less than we had. Their aspirations to live in a free society are as great as ours. We need to pay good fortune forward.” We will miss our mother dearly. We will miss her sharp wit, the sound of her laughter, her great cooking and opinions. Her life force was strong. Eleanor taught, loved, and continued to worry and care for us all of our lives. She and our father had a 68-year-long marriage that was admirable; each of them encouraging the other’s abilities, energy, and humor. Toward the end of her life she said, “My home is wherever Ray is.” She was predeceased by her husband, artist Ray Must. She is survived by Rachel Must-Ettinger (Joel Ettinger), Miriam Must (Gary Johnson), David Must (Meredith Halpern); and grandchildren Gabriella, Griffin, Jae and Sam; along with beloved cousins, niece and nephews and many dear friends. Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. Please consider donating to the ACLU or a charity of your choice.

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Look at Us shares works of artists and artisans with a Dayton connection.

Jewish Artists & Artisans in Dayton

Wednesday, August 21, 5:30 – 7 PM Special Event at the Dayton Art Institute 456 Belmonte Park North, Dayton, 45405

On view now at jewishdayton.org: Works by Jewish artists from the collection of the Dayton Art Institute including Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alexander Liberman.

Starting August 7th at jewishdayton.org: View works by local artists and artisans including Cathy Gardner, calligraphy; Elyssa Wortzman and Ray Must (of blessed memory), fine arts; Gayle Moscowitz and Caryl Segalewitz, glass art; Mike Jaffe, Stephen Goldberg, Bruce Soifer, and Sam Lauber (of blessed memory), photography; Marlene Pinsky, quilting; and Burt Saidel, Scott Segalewitz and Steve Markman (of blessed memory), woodworking.

Featuring a display of local artists and artisans presented by the Look at Us Committee and a program by Dayton Jewish artist Hannah Kasper Levinson.

No cost. RSVP online by Friday, August 16th at jewishdayton.org/events or to Stacy Emoff at semoff@jfgd.net or 937-610-5513.

[RIGHT, TOP] Hannah Kasper Levinson [RIGHT, BOTTOM] "The Search Continues"

by Hannah Kasper Levinson

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Ruth Schumacher & Wendy Gray (Co-Chairs), Stacy Emoff (JCC Program Coordinator), Mark Gruenberg, Noah Gruenberg, Helen Halcomb, Scott Liberman, and Linda Novak

Funding provided by an Innovation Grant of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton.