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Kristallnacht programs Area colleges and universities will commemorate the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht with a virtual scholarly discussion and an in-person remembrance with a virtual option.

Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass — Nov. 9 and Renate Frydman 10, 1938 in Nazi Germany — is considered the start of the Holocaust.

Sinclair College and Wright State University will present a virtual discussion of Kristallnacht at 4:15 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 8 with Dayton Holocaust Resource Center founder and Director Renate Frydman and Lisa Lefstein-Berusch, associate program director of Facing History & Lisa LefsteinOurselves, a Berusch global nonprofit that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

To register for the program, email Thomas Martin at thomas.martin6057@sinclair.edu.

The University of Dayton will hold its annual Kristallnacht Remembrance at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9 on campus in the Immaculate Conception Chapel.

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By Marshall Weiss The Observer How do you respond when a dear friend spews hate? When someone who has championed you — who has held up your spirits in your darkest hours — publicly ignites vile judgments against people who are continually denigrated and othered?

Where do you begin? This, I believe, accounts for the thundering silence across the Miami Valley regarding Yellow Springs resident Dave Chappelle’s new and final comedy special for Netflix, The Closer.

Released Tuesday, Oct. 5, The Closer now ranks as Netflix’s third most watched program in the United States.

Early in The Closer, Chappelle

compares Asian people to the coronavirus. Throughout, he questions and mocks the legitimacy of transgender people in ways that are just ugly, while sharing stories of the transgender comedian whose career he helped. She took her own life in 2019 after receiving a barrage of hate on Twitter for defending Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes.

Chappelle strongly implies in The Closer that he lays her suicide at the feet of transgender people. He tells the audience he has set up a trust fund for her daughter.

Chappelle also attacks Jews in ways that are centuries old but still in vogue among antisemites.

The veteran stand-up co-

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median talks of his idea for a movie: “In my movie idea, we find out that these aliens are originally from earth — that they’re from an ancient civilization that achieved interstellar travel and left the earth thousands of years ago. Some other planet they go to, and things go terrible for them on the other planet, so they come back to earth, (and) decide that they want to claim the earth for their very own. It’s a pretty good plot line, huh? I call it Space Jews.”

How is this antisemitic? It plays into the long-held belief among Jew haters that the Jews as a people control the goings on of the world’s affairs for Continued on next page

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I love how Chanukah falls out this year. True, it’s not exactly Thanksgivukah — which we celebrated eight years ago already — but no one could fault you if you found and brought out Marshall your “Menurkey.” The festivities begin Thursday, Nov. 25 with Thanksgiving.

Weiss You can enjoy that leftover turkey (or Tofurky) and all the trimmings for Friday night Shabbat dinner and, well, maybe for Kiddush lunch Saturday too. And then on Sunday, Nov. 28, it’s the first night of Chanukah, our eight-day Festival of Lights and latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) and chocolate gelt (coins). I’m glad all the fun is coming early and together this year. We need it. FYI, even though Chanukah begins in November, the December Observer, which arrives in homes across the Miami Valley before Thanksgiving, will be our full-blown Chanukah issue. Don’t forget to send in your Chanukah greetings to the community for that issue. See our back cover for details.

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‘It was my final act of respect & responsibility for my parents.’

— Debbie Feldman with her husband, Bruce

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hen Debbie and Bruce Feldman were asked to participate in the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton campaign, it was an easy decision.

Bruce, whose family has been involved in Dayton’s Jewish community for four generations, saw a need to support and ensure the perpetual care of the cemeteries.

“Because my family has been here so long, we have friends, family and loved ones in all three cemeteries,” said Bruce. “I immediately got involved with this campaign. This effort provides a future for all our cemeteries. It’s great to see the community come together and care for one another.”

Debbie, on the other hand, grew up in northern Virginia. Yet she now feels her “roots are in Dayton.”

When the time was right, she moved her parents to Dayton to help care for them. After they passed, they were interred at Beth Jacob’s cemetery. “I am comforted knowing they are here, near me and with my family. It was my final act of respect and responsibility for my parents.”

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Continued from previous page ships and opportunities he pursues in their nefarious benefit. That Jews are Yellow Springs brim with excitement alien, not like everyone else. It also for expanding the hippie village into buys into the most ignorant stereoeven more of a cultural hot spot. types of false anti-Israel narratives, He helped us reclaim the Oregon absent any understanding of the District with the Gem City Shine history of the Jewish people and the concert he put together with A-list Middle East. celebrities and performers when we Chappelle returns to the Jews so desperately needed healing after toward the end of his program. He the mass shooting there in 2019. talks of a slave in the pre-Civil War In the midst of the Covid pandemSouth who buys his freedom from his ic, he was there for us again when owner, buys his own land, and then we all needed a good laugh, with buys slaves of his own: his “summer camp” outdoor series “Not only was he a slave owner, he in Yellow Springs, Dave Chappelle became a slave breeder and employed & Friends — An Intimate Socially tactics that were so cruel even White Distanced Affair. slave owners were like, ‘Yo, my man.’

We in the Dayton area like to be He was a wild dude, but he did it liked. It’s not a bad thing. That one because that’s what successful people of America’s most famous celebrities did at the time. How could a person has chosen to live here and throw (who) went through slavery perpegrand parties here elevates us in the trate the same evil on a person (who) eyes of his celebrity friends and, to looks just like him? And shockingly, an extent, to the rest of the nation. It they’re making a movie elevates us in our own Stacy Revere/Getty Images eyes. about him. Ironically, it’s called Space Jews.”

But a true friendship Netflix is standing by is not a one-way relaChappelle and The Closer tionship. As painful as it even as its trans emis to accept and naviployees and supportive gate, our friend’s genco-workers have planned erosity and very public an Oct. 20 walkout. expressions of prejudice Chappelle himself seems are both real and presdefiantly unrepentant, ent. Does friendship proud to identify as grant a free pass when one who is under attack it comes to hate? Some by the “cancel culture” might argue that I don’t movement. fully understand what’s From the stage of the at stake.

Hollywood Bowl follow- Dave Chappelle Over several years, ing the Oct. 7 screening I’ve seen our local Holoof Untitled: Dave Chappelle Documencaust survivors go out to area middle tary, he told the audience, “If this is schools and high schools. There, what being canceled is about, I love they share their personal stories and it.” For this, he received a standing answer students’ questions. And to ovation. a person, the survivors emphasize It’s disheartening to live in a time the same points: Stand down hate and place in which we need a remind- wherever you see it. Stand up for er of the obvious: Chappelle’s mockthose who experience hate. Don’t be a ery of Asians, Jews, and transgender bystander. people is drenched in prejudice.

These days, an even better phrase Prejudice targeted against any group has come into popular use: Be an upof people is wrong. stander. The new Wolf Holocaust & Is Dave Chappelle anti-Asian, anti- Humanity Center museum at Union Jewish, anti-transgender? I don’t dare Terminal down the road in Cincinanswer these questions. None of us nati has an entire project and excan look into his heart. But his very hibit dedicated to inspiring people to public words are all of these. become upstanders, which the center It reminds me of the words of andefines as “individuals who stand up other comedian beset by his own ugly for others and their rights. They fight problems. against injustice and unfairness, and In Woody Allen’s 1994 film, Bullets they use their character strengths to Over Broadway, he has a character inspire action and become the best of played by Rob Reiner proclaim the ul- humanity today. They are willing to timate statement of hubris, “An artist sacrifice.” creates his own moral universe.”

Here’s hoping Dave Chappelle will Could Chappelle believe he creates choose a path toward healing and his own moral universe? I’ve heard forgiveness. And that all of us in the him refer to himself as an artist. He Miami Valley use our strengths to and his craft have brought much become the best of humanity today. good to the Dayton area in general and Yellow Springs in particular. The Marshall Weiss is editor and publisher of entertainment/philanthropy partner- The Dayton Jewish Observer.

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Jewish skeptics of critical race theory say Texas Holocaust education incident does not deter them

By Ben Sales, JTA When a school administrator in Texas was caught on tape saying that a new law forces teachers to offer an “opposing” view on the Holocaust, the raft of state laws aiming to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory took on a new light.

For Jews who support education about systemic racism, and oppose laws restricting such education, the Texas incident proves their point. Just as there is no historical debate about the historicity of the Holocaust, “there are also no ‘both sides’ to American chattel slavery, to systemic racism, to lynchings and land theft and Indigenous genocide,” tweeted Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, a prominent liberal Jewish voice.

“Remember, people, that the suggestion to teach both sides of the Holocaust has come up because there is a law in Texas that is there to censor teaching on antiracism,” wrote Ruttenberg, the scholar in residence at the National Council of Jewish Women. “This is about White supremacy, yes, and/but at its root it’s about antiblackness.”

But some of the loudest American Jewish voices opposing critical race

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But the administrator in the tape theory — or the associated idea of suggested that its focus on balance “wokeness” — say the incident in applies to teaching historical events Texas has not led them to reconsider like the Holocaust. their stance. They say the Texas Bernstein’s relatively new orgaadministrator’s message represents nization, the Jewish Institute for a distortion of the values they want Liberal Values, published a letter this to see in schools. year articulating a Jewish opposition “The Holocaust, like the history to efforts to teach critical race theory of slavery in the U.S., is not an idea in schools. “The way to fight racism or an opinion,” David Bernstein, the isn’t to cease discussion and debate. founder of the Jewish Institute for To do so is antithetical to American Liberal Values and an opponent of Critical race theory has become a battleground issue ideals and antithetical to Judaism,” education focused on critical race in education culture wars the letter says. “The way to fight theory, said. “It’s a historical fact. racism is to insist on our common One can support the free expression controversial issues of public policy or of ideas and still recognize that there social affairs,” they need to do so “from humanity –– and to engage in dialogue, including with those who dissent.” are people pedaling hateful and stupid diverse and contending perspectives Some signatories of the letter said claims that must be debunked.” without giving deference to any one they oppose the Texas legislation, and Critical race theory is a concept in perspective.” Recently, the board of the distinguish between teaching historical legal studies that says racism is baked Texas school district where the adminevents and teaching any one interpretainto the laws and institutions of Ameriistrator works reprimanded a fourthcan society. Lately, conservative activgrade teacher for including a book about tion of the effects of those events.

“The dispute about the interpretaists have seized on the idea that public anti-racism in her classroom library, tion of events is completely legitimate, school students are being taught history according to NBC News, which first but the dispute about the existence of through a lens of critical race theory. reported the Holocaust comments. events is either dangerous or stupid or Some states, like Texas, have passed Texas’ law is aimed at countering the both,” said Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai laws that ban teaching the concepts idea that “an individual, by virtue of Temple in Los Angeles. “You can, for underlying the theory. his or her race or sex, bears responsibilexample, argue endlessly about the efTexas’ law states that when teachers ity for actions committed in the past by teach “widely debated and currently other members of the same race or sex.” Continued on Page Six

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Cincinnati’s Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center opposes Ohio House Bills 322 & 327 The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center exists to ensure that lessons of the Holocaust inspire action today. HHC’s dynamic public programs and education initiatives impact more than 200,000 students, educators, and the community at large, each year. Ohio House Bills 322 and 327, which would restrict the teaching of certain concepts and topics in K-16 classrooms, could have unintended consequences that would negatively impact Holocaust education in the state of Ohio. With hate crimes in the United States soaring to record highs, it is imperative that teachers are encouraged to devote instructional time to teaching the Holocaust, a seminal event in human history, freely. HHC is opposed to these bills for the following reasons: • Stipulations that prohibit the teaching of topics dealing with race, sex, slavery, and bias could potentially discourage educators from providing necessary historical context and discussing the practices and ideologies that contributed to the Holocaust, such as stereotyping and antisemitism.

• HB 322 and HB 327 challenge fundamental aspects of social studies education, hindering the efforts of teaching critical thinking and democratic values.

• The value of learning about issues and relevant topics from multiple perspectives could be severely compromised and even eliminated, having a disproportionate and undue impact on marginalized groups.

• It is unclear who gets to determine what events are “divisive” and whether a teacher’s delivery is objective and impartial. Because of the punitive nature of HB327, HHC is concerned that an educator may view topics surrounding the Holocaust as potentially “divisive” and thus not worth the risk to teach.

• Funding stipulations in both bills could threaten existing partnerships between HHC and area school districts. HHC offers subsidies to school districts, representing approximately 22,000 students across the region annually, to cover the admission, bussing, and tour costs associated with bringing students to the museum. Under HB 322 and 327, these funding opportunities would prevent students from participating in HHC programs.

• Studies have shown that students who receive high quality Holocaust education exhibit higher critical thinking skills and a greater sense of social responsibility and civic efficacy. The bills would impede these learning outcomes, negatively impacting students and teachers across the state.

At HHC, we value the lessons the Holocaust and history have taught us about the value of humanity, dignity, and respect for one another. Legislation which threatens these aims is dangerous for the future of our children and our state. We ask that members of the House State and Local Government Committee oppose HB 322 and HB 327.

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By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first Black U.S. national security advisor, the first Black military chief of staff, and the first Black secretary of state.

He was also the first military chief to speak Yiddish as a second language, and he loved surprising Jews with his skill.

Powell, the former U.S. secretary of state who brokered the “road map” to a two-state peace deal that still informs much of U.S. policy in the region, died Oct. 18 at age 84. He died of Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was fully vaccinated and, according to news reports, had been undergoing treatments for blood cancer.

Powell made history three times as the first Black man in a senior security position: As President Ronald Reagan’s last national security adviser, from 1987 to 1989; as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from 1989 to 1993 under President George H.W. Bush, who commanded the successful first Gulf War; and as secretary of state from 2001 to 2005 under Bush’s son, President George W. Bush.

Powell, the child of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in the Bronx, was a hero in Vietnam who upon his return stayed in the military and rapidly rose through the ranks.

From when he was 13 until his sophomore year at the City College of New York, Powell worked for Sickser’s, a Jewish-owned shop in the Bronx that

sold goods to new parents — many of them Jewish who spoke Yiddish as a first language. He also worked as a “Shabbes goy,” turning on the electricity for Orthodox families on the Sabbath, and picked up the language.

When he met Yitzhak Shamir, the Israeli prime minister ahead of the first Gulf War in 1991, he said, “Men kent reden Yiddish,” we can speak in Yiddish, to Shamir’s surprise. At least twice, addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, he joked about his Yiddish skills.

Shamir and Powell shared more than a language: In Powell, Shamir found the only senior national security official who was sympathetic to Israel’s reluctance to hold fire in the face of Iraqi Scud missile attacks on the country.

The senior Bush and Brent Scowcroft, his national security adviser, were baffled that Israel did not want to rely on American protection.

Powell, as a military officer, understood Shamir’s concern that staying out would lower Israel’s deterrence, and his sympathetic ear helped bring Shamir around toward complying with the Bush administration’s demand that Israel lay low throughout the conflict.

Powell was consistently concerned about Jewish sensibilities; heading a volunteerism initiative under President Bill Clinton, he formally apologized to the Jewish community after the commission’s first summit was held on Passover.

The pro-Israel community, mindful

He was also the first military chief to speak Yiddish as a second language.

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There were tensions, however, as Powell at times Colin Powell clashed with the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon over Israel’s actions during the Second Intifada.

Powell was the first Bush administration official — indeed the first U.S. official — to say, in 2001, that the likely outcome of peace talks would be a Palestinian state.

The development stunned the pro-Israel community, which had expected the second Bush administration to step back from the intensive Middle East peace brokering that had characterized the Clinton and first Bush administrations.

Powell had the ear of his boss; by the summer of 2002, Bush was speaking of Palestinian statehood, and by 2003, Powell had dragged a reluctant Sharon into endorsing — with caveats — the roadmap, which

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envisioned a process culminating in Palestinian statehood.

Sharon was signing onto the very thing he had accused his Labor Party opponents of rushing toward barely a decade earlier, when the Oslo Process, which did not explicitly envision Palestinian statehood, was launched under Clinton.

Powell worked hard to bring the U.S. Jewish community on board with the road map, mindful of how opposition among U.S. proIsrael groups had helped frustrate the Oslo process.

The Trump administration suspended some provisions of the road map, deemphasizing statehood as an outcome for Palestinians.

The Biden administration has reinstated its parameters.

Powell wanted a second term as secretary of state; he forever regretted becoming the leading pitch man for the

Iraq War ahead of its 2003 launch, notably with a speech to the United Nations that was later revealed to have included distortions, and wanted to stick around to clean up the mess.

Powell clashed with Vice President Dick Cheney over how the war developed.

Bush, however, chose in his second term to let Powell go and elevated his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to the job, making her the first Black woman to be secretary of state.

Once again the pro-Israel community, noting Rice’s reputation for hawkishness, rejoiced; once again, it was disappointed when she spearheaded pressure on Israel to enter the Annapolis peace process in 2007.

Powell, meantime, disillusioned with the course of the Bush presidency and resigned to the fact that his own presidential hopes were dashed in Iraq, endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008.

He remained a critic of the rightward drift of his party, endorsing Obama again in 2012, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, although he disliked her; Donald Trump, he said then, was a “national disgrace.”

Powell worked hard to bring the U.S. Jewish community on board with the road map

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U.S. rejoins U.N. Human Rights Council 3 years after Trump left over Israel concerns

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By Gabe Friedman, JTA The U.S. rejoined the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Oct. 14, three years after former President Trump pulled out of it over what his administration deemed a “shameless” bias against Israel.

President Biden’s envoy to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, argued in a statement that the Seats prepared for a U.N. Human Rights Council move will not mean the U.S. session in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 13, 2021 does not stand with Israel.

Then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “We will oppose the Council’s Netanyahu applauded the decision. disproportionate attention on Israel, The pullout split Jewish lawmakers which includes the Council’s only at the time, including Democrats. standing agenda item targeting a single The council, formed in 2006, held an country,” she said. internal election Oct. 14 as it does every The council, which investigates three years, and several countries with alleged human rights abuses in U.N. controversial human rights records member countries, has for decades roumade the cut — including China, Rustinely singled out Israel in reports and sia, Cuba and Eritrea. resolutions, particularly in the wake of Hillel Neuer, the head of U.N. Watch, the country’s many armed conflicts in a watchdog group that often calls the Gaza. council and other U.N. bodies out for its Nikki Haley, former envoy to the Israel critique, lamented to the AFP that U.N. under Trump, said in 2018 after so many of what he calls “oppressive the U.S.’ pullout that the council “was regimes” were elected. not worthy of its name.”

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Josh has been working at St. Vincent DePaul for eleven years. He initially worked in the men’s homeless shelter and is currently a case manager in the SSVF (Supportive Services for Veteran Families) program. In this capacity, Josh assists veterans who are homeless or at-risk find stable housing or helps them to stay in their homes.

Josh and his wife, Heather, were married in October 2019. They enjoy walking their dogs (Smoke and Myrtle.) Josh likes to attend concerts, cook, check out local restaurants, hike and perform Improv comedy at The Blackbox.

If you have a teen in your life, Josh would love to talk to you about the wealth of opportunity BBYO has to offer! He can be reached at dayton@bbyo.org.

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With Yair Lapid at his side, Blinken uses a word Israel has been longing to hear on Iran Andrew Harnik/Pool/ AFP/via Getty Images

(L to R) Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan take part in a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Oct. 13

By Ron Kampeas, JTA WASHINGTON — Yair Lapid got what he wanted out of his Washington visit: the word “every,” instead of “other.”

During Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s first meeting with President Biden in August, Bennett was happy with what he heard: the American president, despite his desire to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, said that if Iran does not engage in good faith diplomacy with the nations involved in the deal, the U.S. would consider “other options” in getting Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions.

It was a sign that Israel and U.S. Democrats, long far apart in their opinions on how to best contain Iran, were coming closer together.

Lapid, on his official trip as foreign minister in Washington, pushed things along even further.

He looked on Oct. 13 as Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said “every” option was on the table if Iran does not engage in a good faith effort to negotiate the U.S. reentry into the nuclear deal.

It was one of those blink-and-youmiss-it moments in diplomacy, but it had significant weight. According to insiders involved in the issue, “other options” can be seen as referring to enhanced sanctions or other non-military forms of pressure. “Every option” means military action may be on the table as well.

“We will look at every option to deal with the challenge posed by Iran,” Blinken said at a press conference called to announce initiatives that would advance the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab nations. “We continue to believe that diplomacy is the most effective way to do that, but it takes two to engage in diplomacy, and we have not — we have not seen from Iran a willingness to do that at this point.”

Blinken made the statement flanked

by Lapid and the United Arab Emirates

foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The foreign ministers were together to announce new Abraham Accords initiatives, but the symbolism of Blinken’s stronger language in the company of two of the Middle East nations who feel Iran’s threat most sharply was unmistakable.

A senior Israeli official told reporters after the meetings that the Israeli and U.S. delegations discussed Iran extensively behind closed doors. “While there may not have been agreement, there was the discussion of options that have not been on the table previously,” said the official, who spoke anonymously due to the sensitivity of the information.

Along with Bennett, Lapid has spearheaded the effort to repair Israel’s ties with the Democratic Party, which corroded during the 12 years Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister. Netanyahu was antagonistic toward that half of the American polity, toward which the clear majority of American Jews align.

Netanyahu has accused Bennett and Lapid of showing weakness by not more robustly opposing the Biden administration’s efforts to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which former President Donald Trump left in 2018 at Netanyahu’s behest.

Bennett and Lapid’s strategy appeared to pay dividends during Lapid’s 48 hours in the U.S. capital in October.

The Biden administration, frustrated with the new hard-line Iranian government elected this summer, is edging closer to Israel’s posture, a development that came about without tensions.

Blinken’s language on Iran was tougher than it has been since President Joe Biden made good on his pledge to seek to reenter the 2015 sanctions relief for nuclear rollback deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Biden sees it as the best option to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

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Iran

Continued from Page 15 months that we are prepared to return to full compliance with the JCPOA if Iran does the same, what we are seeing — or maybe more accurately not seeing from Tehran now — suggests that they’re not,” Blinken said. “I’m not going to put a specific date on it, but with every passing day and Iran’s refusal to engage in good faith, the runway gets short.”

Lapid culled other dividends from his visit. The Biden administration showed itself fully committed to cultivating the Abraham Accords, one of the few areas of agreement it has with the Trump administration, which brokered the accords. Blinken at the press conference announced the launch of two working groups comprising Israeli, U.S., and Emirati officials, one tackling religious intolerance and the other fostering cooperation on water and energy.

Lapid also met with World Bank officials to discuss plans to seek investors for infrastructure projects in the Gaza Strip as a means of lifting the standard of living in the poverty-stricken enclave, while limiting the influence of Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the strip with which Israel periodically wars. The United Arab Emirates would likely also play a role in the investments.

Lapid, who is set to take over as Israel’s prime minister in 2023, met Oct. 12 with Vice President Kamala Harris, and with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. In a brief appearance for reporters, Pelosi emphasized bipartisan support for Israel, a pointed rejection of the calls by progressives within her party to cut funding to the country.

On the U.S. side, Blinken said the Biden administration remains dedicated to reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Biden, he said at the press conference, has been “clear that a two-state solution is the best way to ensure Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state, living in peace alongside a viable, sovereign, and democratic Palestinian state.”

Bennett has said that a Palestinian state will not arise on his watch, while Lapid has been less clear on the issue.

Blinken did not refrain from mentioning points of contention, including American plans to reopen a dedicated consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem, replacing the one shuttered by the Trump administration.

“We’ll be moving forward with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening those ties with the Palestinians,” Blinken said, although the Israeli government is on the record as opposing it.

State Department statements on the meetings also noted that China was a topic of discussion with Lapid. The Biden administration, like the Trump administration before it, objects to the extent of Israel’s commercial ties with the most formidable rival to the United States in the international arena.

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OPINION

Distressed by the Sally Rooney controversy?

Read how a Jewish fan once schooled Charles Dickens on antisemitism.

Charles Dickens Museum

By Erika Dreifus But Eliza Davis didn’t As a writer, literature know how Dickens would professor, and one of the receive her initial message.

82 percent of U.S. Jews And when he scathingly who report that “caring dismissed it, she didn’t about Israel” is either “esgive up. sential” or “important” to Ohio State Univertheir Jewish identity, I am sity Prof. Emerita Rudine pained when I see authors Sims-Bishop speaks of whom I admire launch exbooks as “windows” and aggerated or misinformed “mirrors” for the children attacks on Israel. who read them. With But I also take solace in rising antisemitism in the a correspondence, celUnited States and elseebrated in a new chilwhere, Dear Mr. Dickens is dren’s book, that showed The Charles Dickens Museum in London features the book Dear Mr. Dickens a sadly timely mirror for in its current exhibit, More! Oliver Twist, Dickens and Stories of the City how one Jewish reader Jewish children; imporengaged an author she felt daunted when writing the famous autantly, it provides a positrafficked in anti-Jewish tropes. That the thor, whose portrayal of “the Jew” Fagin tive, action-oriented message of tikun correspondence took place in the 19th in Oliver Twist landed “like a hammer olam, the Jewish value of repairing the century, and the author in question is on (her) heart,” as Churnin describes it. world. For others, the book offers a winCharles Dickens, does not make its lesDavis lacked Dickens’s stature. But “she dow into Jewish experience, alongside sons any less timely. had the same three things that (he) had: that universal message about confrontI was distressed when Irish novela pen, paper, and something to say.” ing injustice with written words. ist Sally Rooney said Oct. 12 that she Quoting the correspondence, Churnin Moreover, Eliza Davis’s reaction to wouldn’t allow her latest novel to be conveys Davis’s message: Fagin “enDickens’ words — her sense of betrayal published in Hebrew by an Israeli pubcouraged ‘a vile prejudice’” against her by an admired author whose compaslisher “that does not publicly distance people. According to Churnin, Davis sion somehow didn’t extend to Jews — itself from apartheid and support the had considered Dickens especially heroic mirrors my own increasingly frequent U.N.-stipulated rights of the Palestinian — and the Fagin character especially experience. Like so many Jews, I am people.” discordant — because Dickens “used the imbued with a sense of klal Yisrael, JewSaddened but not surprised. Earlier power of his pen to help others.” ish peoplehood, linking us with Jews this year, Rooney signed a Letter Against In response, Dickens declared that everywhere — including in Israel, the Apartheid — a text issued in the wake Fagin was based on real-life Jewish world’s only Jewish state, where nearly of the latest round of violence between criminals. In a mix of what we’d today half of the world’s Jews now live.

Israel and Hamas. It called for governcall gaslighting and mansplaining, he This doesn’t mean that I support all ments to “cut trade, economic, and went further: “Any Jewish people who Israeli policies. But criticism of Israel cultural relations” with the Jewish state, thought him unfair or unkind — and needs to be leavened by facts and conwhich it said had committed “ethnic that included Eliza! — were not ‘sentext, and a recognition that the situation cleansing,” “massacres,” and more in sible’ or ‘just’ or ‘good tempered,’” is far more complex than declarations its response to the thousands of rockets Churnin relates. Davis tried again; eviof an “apartheid” regime and “ethnic fired into Israel by Hamas. dently, Dickens didn’t write back. cleansing” suggest.

With their focus on words, writers But the Jewish character in his next Although I’ve gone the public route should do better, especially when they novel — the estimable Mr. Riah in My from time to time, private communicaorganize, join or promote such endeavMutual Friend — was no Fagin. tions with writer-friends and acquainors. If their misrepresentations are withAfter that novel appeared, Davis tances — especially in the wake of out malicious intent, they’re in desperate thanked Dickens for “‘a great complithe May 2021 war between Israel and need of further education. ment paid to myself and to my people.’” Hamas — have proven far more fruitful, How such “education” might best This time, Dickens responded much yielding corrections, deletions and other be carried out is the subject of Dear Mr. more warmly. He went further, notably changes. For which I, like Davis, have Dickens, a new picture book written in a magazine essay in which he referred expressed thanks.

by Nancy Churnin and illustrated by to Jews as “an earnest, methodical, aspirI don’t expect “great compliments to Bethany Stancliffe. This true story of ing people” and in changes to a subseme and to my people” from authorial correspondence between the celebrated quent printing of Oliver Twist, when he idols and colleagues, particularly those author and a reader named Eliza Davis instructed the printer to remove many of Palestinian descent. All I’m seeking — a Jewish woman who launched the instances in which he referred to “the is fairness — and freedom from vile exchange to protest antisemitic tropes in Jew” and to use Fagin’s name instead. prejudice.

Oliver Twist — imparts a timeless lesson There’s still another aspect of Eliza about speaking out against injustice.

Davis’ story that resonates: Instead of Erika Dreifus is the author of Birthright: (Disclosure: Churnin and I currently calling Dickens out publicly, Davis apPoems and Quiet Americans: Stories, belong to the same writers group; I proached him one-to-one. which was named an ALA/Sophie Brody hadn’t seen this manuscript before being True, they weren’t strangers. AccordMedal Honor Title for outstanding granted pre-publication electronic access ing to an author’s note, the Davises had achievement in Jewish Literature. She is an to an advance review copy.) purchased Dickens’ former home a few adjunct associate professor at Baruch College Davis (1817-1903) refused to be years before this correspondence began. of The City University of New York.

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MAZEL TOV! Dr. Elliot Davidson, a longtime Daytonian who is medical director of the Center for Family Medicine at Akron General Medical Center, now hosts the podcast, Lessons My Patients Taught Me. Since he began the podcast in May, he’s interviewed two dozen physicians on the program, including his uncle and Dr. Elliot Davidson (L) with his uncle, Dr. Herman Abromowitz mentor, Dr. Herman Abromowitz, on Established in 1975, Daybreak is Episode #9. Herman, who an emergency homeless shelter now lives in Columbus, was for runaway and homeless a longtime family practice youths. It operates the Miami physician in Dayton. He’s a Valley’s only 24-hour crisis past president of the Ohio State hotline and emergency youth Medical Association and the shelter.

Bark Mitzvah Boy Montgomery County Medical Society. Herman was Elliot’s first partner in practice as a family doctor.

“I have been thinking about this as a book one day and thought a podcast would be a great way to begin writing, get the content out there for feedback and create an enduring record of these lessons,” Elliot says. The podcast with his uncle, Elliot adds, includes some Dayton Jewish medical history.

He worked in his uncle’s office during high school. “I did all sorts of odd jobs: counting pills, filing X-rays, even pouring liniment in the bottles,” Elliot says on the podcast. “When my uncle walked in the room and greeted the patients, the look on their faces was astonishing. Even before my uncle said hello, you could see the look of confidence, of comfort, of reassurance on the faces of the men, women, and children that were his patients. I sensed them saying to themselves, ‘Here’s my doctor. He’s going to help me.

I’m going to feel better.’ I could not believe the power in those relationships.” The podcast is available at Anchor by Spotify.

A street near Daybreak’s campus on South Patterson Boulevard in Dayton has been renamed in honor of Linda Kramer, Daybreak’s longtime CEO, who retired last year.

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Seth can be found playing The Max May and Lydia May baseball, his favorite pastime, Memorial Holocaust Art in or out of season, either and Writing Contest is now with Patterson Park Baseball accepting entries for its 2022 League or with his Dad. Seth competition. The theme for is the grandson of Mrs. Lois the 2022 contest is Children Gross, Dr. Allan Spetter, and of the Holocaust. All students Mr. and Mrs. Theodore and in grades five through 12 who Debra Schwartz of blessed live in the Miami Valley are memory. As a Bar Mitzvah, Seth eligible to enter. The contest is is honored to support The Ray sponsored by the Holocaust Pfeifer Foundation, a 501(c) Education Committee of the (3) charitable organization Jewish Federation of Greater dedicated to assisting Sept. 11th Dayton. For details about first responders with medical how to submit entries, go to needs not covered by insurance. jewishdayton.org/program/ The foundation was established holocaust-art-and-writingin memory of Ray Pfeifer, a contest.

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It’s hard to be a Jew. It’s supposed to be.

By Rabbi Cary Kozberg Temple Sholom, Springfield What follows are comments offered on Shabbat Vaetchanan (Deut.

3:23-7:11), learned and inspired by the writing of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, may the memory of this righteous one be a blessing.

Those who have read the Tanakh/Jewish Bible know that much of scriptural narrative deals with our ancestors’ ongoing love/hate relationship with idolatry — how they would be unfaithful to their covenant with God, slide into

Perspectives worshipping the images of the gods of their neighbors, repent and pledge renewed faithfulness, backslide, repent again, etc.

This susceptibility was apparent even before they entered the Promised Land: there was the incident of the Golden Calf and the episode of being seduced by the Moabites and worshipping their god, Baal Peor.

Consequently, much of the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses’ last will and testament, constantly warns the people of the dangers of idolatry and how to avoid it.

But what exactly is idolatry?

Why is the Torah so concerned about it? Why does it caution us against it, and what is the source of its attraction?

Contrary to conventional wisdom, idolatry is less about the objects of a person’s devotion and more about the person’s intention: what a person makes ultimately important in his or her life.

From this perspective, it is easy to understand that idolatry can manifest itself in different ways. Idolatry has always been associated with venerating images of Zeus, Aphrodite, or Baal.

But if idolatry really is about making anything else besides God of ultimate importance, then whatever we devote all our energies, time, resources to — a career, a car, a political cause, etc. — we can also make into idols.

In our time, it has been argued that, like our ancestors, there are still Jews who are “idolators” in that they separate and isolate one aspect

from the totality of the Jewish commitment to God. Examples of such people include, but are not limited to: • Those who focus their Jewish commitment solely on working for Israel.

• Those who focus their Jewish commitment solely on promoting social justice.

• Those whose passion for Shabbat inspires them to throw rocks at other less-observant Jews.

• Those who pray to only one “part” of God, for example, the Shechinah — understood by the mystics to be the “female aspect” of Divinity — thus compromising or even denying the unity of God affirmed in the Shema.

In discussing this phenomenon, the late Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz pointed out that the urge toward idolatry actually is rooted in a religious inclination, the desire to wholly devote one’s self to something.

This may happen when a person is faced with many disparate, perhaps contradictory elements in his or her quest for meaning.

Each element may point in a different direction, like fingers on an open hand.

The contradictions may lead to confusion, even anxiety, and cause the person to choose one of those elements and elevate it, in order to clarify or simplify his or her religious commitment.

The focus of devotion may itself not be bad or forbidden.

It may even be something quite noble and sacred such as Israel, social justice, Shabbat.

It’s hard to be a But when it is Jew.” One of the disconnected and reasons it’s hard is isolated from its because living as original total cona Jew means being text, its connecable to navigate tion to authentic the complexity of sanctity is lost. living with opThus, the true posites: challenge of • Celebrating resisting idolatry freedom from in its many forms slavery at Passis overcoming the over, mourning allure of overthe tragedy of the simplifying one’s Rabbi Cary Kozberg Holocaust a mere devotion. five days later on Yom HasFor example, there are those hoah, and a week later once who aver that all religions can again celebrating the miracle of be reduced to “love”— love of a Jewish state reborn on Yom God and love of one’s neighHa’atzmaut. bor.

• Resonating with the Now, of course Judaism is all solemnity of Yom Kippur and for loving God and loving our neighbors. But Judaism is more then rejoicing five days later on Sukkot. complex than “love.” We are • Fully understanding that commanded to love God and the words “A time for love and love our neighbor, but we are a time for hate, a time for war taught about the need to hate: and a time for peace” are not “Those who love God hate evil just the lyrics of a well-known (Psalm 97:10).” song. Instead, they accurately When it comes to “the reflect what life is about, and other,” we are that there is a proper time for commanded to each. love the stranger As Rabbi Steinsaltz reminds in our midst, but us, it’s hard to be a Jew because not to fraternize it requires us to be extreme and too much with moderate, instructs us when those outside of to be quiet (Yom Kippur) and the community, when to be wild (Purim). lest we follow in It means that we know when their ways. to dance and when to crawl, Which of these when to challenge and when to is important? be submissive.

Both! But many Judaism teaches us to accept folks can’t deal with both. They this and that, even when we want and expect either/or prefer to accept either this or and may tend to separate and that. isolate one element of religious The latter leads down the commitment to the exclusion of path of divisive idolatry. the others.

The former affirms the unity This is how the Torah — and all religious belief, for that mat- of life, and thus the unity/ uniqueness of life’s Creator: ter — morphs into idolatry.

Hear O Israel. The Lord is There is an old Yiddish God alone! saying, “Schwer zu sein a Yid,

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Nov. 29-Dec. 6 25 Kislev-2 Tevet Eight-day holiday commemorating Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greeks and the miracle of the rededication of the Temple. One day’s oil for the Temple Menorah lasted eight days. A chanukiah (menorah) is lit for eight nights, and latkes (potato pancakes) are fried in oil to commemorate the story. Children play with dreidels, and gifts are exchanged.

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Medical fiction, Instant Pot cooking, antiterror memoir on virtual CABS programs Brooklyn-based dermatologist Dr. David Biro drew on his medical expertise and his doctorate in English literature for his first novel, This Magnificent Dappled Sea, which he’ll discuss at 7 p.m., Monday, Nov. 1 for the Jewish Community Center’s Virtual Cultural Arts & Book Series.

A 9-year-old boy’s need for a bone Tracy Walder Paula Shoyer marrow transplant connects him and his Dr. David Biro nurse in Italy with a rabbi in Brooklyn who suffers the author of The Kosher Baker, The Holiday Kosher from a crisis of faith. Along the Baker, The Healthy Jewish Kitchen, and The New way, the nurse discovers how Passover Menu. this Catholic child has Jewish She calls the Instant Pot revolutionary, “ideal genes. for anyone who wants food fast with less cleanBiro, who also teaches at up.” Shoyer adds it’s especially helpful “when SUNY Downstate Medical you already have every burner going and three Center, is the author of two non-fiction books, more pots waiting to take their turn. Now I can One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from check off items on my cooking to-do list much Doctor to Patient, and The Language of Pain: Findfaster, with equally fast cleanup in between.” ing Words, Compassion, and Relief.

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Dayton Literary Peace Prize top honors go to fiction & nonfiction Holocaust-related books For the first time since it was established in 2006, the Dayton Literary Peace Price annual awards for fiction and nonfiction will honor authors for books each has written on Holocaust-related themes. The authors will be in Dayton on Nov. 13 for DLPP’s Conversation with the Authors program at the Victoria Theatre to celebrate the 2021 and Ariana Neumann, author of 2020 winners.

When Time Stopped Ariana Neumann is the recipient of the 2021 DLPP in nonfic- DLPP in fiction for We Germans, a New York Times Book Review editors’ choice. tion for When Time Stopped: A Memoir of The novel focuses on an elderly GerMy Father’s War and What Remains. man man whose letter to his grandson A New York Times Bestseller, When Time Stopped also won the 2020 National explains his actions as a soldier, his guilt as a Nazi perpetrator, and the chalJewish Book Award for best memoir. lenges he faced after World War II. In it, Neumann investigates her Starritt, who grew up in Scotland, father’s escape from Nazi-occupied also calls London home.

Prague, how he assumed a false iden“Maybe it’s too much of tity to survive, and how he an Enlightenment simpliultimately spied for the Allies fication to say that greater in Berlin. knowledge can rein in huNewmann, who was born manity’s more savage, clanand raised in Venezuela, now nish impulses,” Starritt said lives in London. When Time in his statement upon receivStopped is her first book. ing the prize. “But humans “People forget numbers, have an inborn impulse to but they rarely forget stoempathize, to feel along with ries,” Newmann said in her those whose struggles they statement when she received read about, which applies as the DLPP award. “We can Gloria Steinem much to what we hear about use words to continue to ‘the Russians’ or ‘the Americans’ as it divide and fragment ourselves or we does to characters in novels.” can use them to eradicate otherness. It Joining the panel conversation along is crucial that we use them to tell stories with Neumann and Starritt at the Victhat build bridges and craft bonds of toria will be 2021 DLPP runners-up and community.”

2020 winners and runners-up.

Scottish-German novelist/journalImmediately following the panel, ist Alexander Starritt received the 2021 Margaret Atwood, 2020-21 winner of DLPP’s Amb. Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, will be interviewed by 2015 Holbrooke winner Gloria Steinem.

Inspired by the Dayton Peace Accords, DLPP is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.

Alexander Starritt, author of — Marshall Weiss We Germans Dayton Literary Peace Prize: A Conversation with the Authors will be held at 4:30 p.m., Sat., Nov. 13 at the Victoria Theatre, 138 N. Main St., Dayton. Tickets are $20$150 and are available for purchase at daytonlive.org or by calling 937-228-3630.

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Not-so-random acts of kindness

Appearing in the Torah nearly 200 times, chesed is often considered Judaism’s most comprehensive and fundamental of all ethical virtues.

This significance is captured by a well-known aphorism: “The world stands on three things: Torah, avodah (service to kindness generates an increase God), and gemilut chasadim (acts in oxytocin, the brain hormone responsible for the sense of con- of lovingkindness).”

Despite their importance, nectedness and trust. “It's what helps societies bond (and keeps) however, the concepts of chesed and gemilut chasadim are not groups of people together,” explains psychiatrist Dr. Marcie easily explained. Chesed expresses both emotion and action, Hall. caring and compassion through Long before the advent of modern psychology, kindness — giving of oneself, the moral commitment we have to one another, chesed or gemilut chasadim — as simply because we are human. a virtue, an action, and a kind Gemilut chasadim emphaof social cement, was a central sizes the underlying notion that pillar of Judaism. chesed isn’t generally accomThe Torah is bookended by plished by momenacts of lovingkindGemilut tary random acts ness: God clothes of kindness, but, as Adam and Eve and chasadim Rabbi Sacks exburies Moses. In the Book of Exodus, should be our plained, by becomchesed — God’s mind-set and ing engaged with real people as we kindness and love lifestyle give of our time, cartoward humaning, and resources. ity — is listed as “It’s about how people live one of the 10 Divine attributes, together despite their differencwhich the Talmud explains are es…about working together for prototypes for how humans should act in relationship to one the sake of the common good.”

And, Rabbi Paasche-Orlow another. points out, it’s when the com“So powerful is gemilut chasadim,” writes Rabbi Jeffery mand to “love your neighbor as Salkin, “that performing acts of yourself is truly fulfilled.”

Here are some Jewish tales lovingkindness is the closest that that illustrate the notions of humans can come to a genuine chesed and gemilut chasadim. imitation of God.”

The Power of Stories

Assisting with the Albanian Muslim refugees in the late 1990s, Israel’s field medical team in Kosovo noted that the adultfocused aid agencies were overlooking the traumatized children. In response to its request for volunteers, virtually every secular and religious youth

Candace R. Kwiatek group in Israel sent teams of youth leaders who organized all manner of camp-style activities — from sports to the arts — to make the children’s temporary exile feel like a vacation. The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks concluded that it demonstrated the beauty and healing power of kindness.

Kindness is fundamental to a healthy society. Psychological research has identified kindness as a universal character strength and virtue, observed its contagious nature, and cataloged its significant physical and mental health benefits. One of the most intriguing discoveries is how

Yiddish folklore tells of the Rebbe of Nemirov, who would vanish early every Friday morning. His devoted followers concluded he must ascend to Heaven to plead on behalf of the community. A visiting Litvak, confident in his superior rational worldview, resolved to discover the real answer. One Friday, he secretly followed the Rebbe who, dressed as peasant, went into the forest. There, he chopped down a tree and split the logs into firewood which he carried in a bundle back to town.

As the Litvak watched, the Rebbe knocked at the run-down-cottage of a poor widow, announcing he had kindling for sale. Assuring her she could pay on credit — after all, doesn’t God always provide? — he entered, stacked the firewood by the hearth, and lit a fire. Then the Rebbe returned home. From that time on, whenever the townspeople said their Rebbe ascended to Heaven, the Litvak—who became the Rebbe’s student—responded, “And maybe even higher.”

A popular folk tale from prestate Israel tells the story of Hannale, who receives a new white Shabbat dress. Cautioned by her mother not to get dirty, the delighted Hannale heads outdoors and proudly shows the dress to her dog, Zoozie, and a nearby cow, Edna, carefully keeping it out of their reach. Hannale then

sees an old man with a heavy sack trudging out of the nearby woods. After showing him the dress, she asks about his sack, which he explains is filled with coal. She offers to help him carry it, and they walk together for a ways. Returning home, she discovers her dress is marred by black stains and bursts into tears. The early-rising moon looks down and whispers, “Are you sorry you helped the old man?” When Hannale replies no, she is just sad about the stains, the moon reassures her that all will be well. Shimmering moonbeams flow from the sky, turning the stains into spots of silvery light, making Hannale’s dress more beautiful than ever.

There are 613 Torah commandments, the most central obligation of which is acting with lovingkindness, as noted by Rabbi Akiva: “This is a great principle of the Torah: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Fundamental to living a meaningful Jewish life and creating a good, cohesive society, gemilut chasadim should be our mind-set and lifestyle, guiding how we interact with family and friends, fellow citizens, and strangers, even when it is hard, writes civility author Stephen Carter. It would go a long way toward healing today’s fractured world.

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Be a Mensch: Unleash Your Power To Be Kind and Help Others

by Elisa Udaskin. Being a mensch doesn’t require superpowers — just “simple shifts in your approach to everyday interactions.” Filled with real-world anecdotes and excellent insights, this slim book offers practical ideas for adults and kids about kindness and helping others through difficult situations from life’s tragedies to daily interactions: including when someone doesn’t meet our expectations. Be a Mensch is not only fun to read, it’s an eye-opener to many unexpected ways of being a good and kind person.

Pink and Say by Patricia Palacco. Two Union soldiers, one White and one Black, meet on the battlefield. Their true story involves a rescue from the battlefields, a relationship built on common humanity, and the devastation wrought when people cannot see the image of God in one another. While written as an illustrated book for elementary ages, it is a powerful story of lovingkindness for adults as well, especially relevant in today’s fractured society.

Hanna’s Sabbath Dress by Itzhak Schweiger-Dmi’el. An excellent YouTube video recording of this classic tale, also a PJ Library book, retold in a lovely British accent, available at Storytime with Raquel: centralsynagogue.org.uk/blog/story-time-raquelhannahs-sabbath-dress-itzhak-schweiger-dmiel/

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OBITUARIES Marcia H. Alpert, age 79, a lifelong resident of Dayton, passed away Oct. 7. Mrs. Alpert was a realtor for over 40 years. She loved to spend time with her family creating memories, travel, try new local restaurants, and shopping.

Mrs. Alpert was preceded in death by her parents, Morris and Idah Bernstein; her husband, Marvin Alpert; brother, Robert Bernstein; and son-in-law, Michael Bondurant.

Mrs. Alpert is survived by her three children: Jaime Bondurant, David Alpert, and Josh (Heather) Alpert; grandson, Zach Parrott; and granddaughter, Marissa Bondurant; sister, Dorothe Bernstein; and many cousins and friends. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton or the charity of your choice.

he battled serious health issues over many years speaks to his courage and dedication to his family. Mr. Hochman met the love of his life, Jeanne, while attending The Ohio State University. They soon married and had two children, Jeffrey and Marla. While at OSU, Mr. Hochman earned his J.D. degree and eventually opened his own successful law practice in Dayton, today well-recognized as Hochman & Plunkett. He was the youngest judge appointed to the municipal court bench

by Gov. Rhodes in 1970 and presided over his courtroom for 16 years. Mr. Hochman was recently honored by the Ohio State Bar Association for his service of more than 50 years. As a proud Daytonian, Mr. Hochman’s commitment to the community, and the arts in particular, was evident in his service to a variety of organizations. Among his Allen G. DuBro, age 84 of passions were the Dayton Dayton, passed away Oct. Philharmonic, where he served 3. Dr. DuBro was a retired as trustee, and the Dayton optometrist who served the Art Institute, where he liked Dayton area for over 50 years. to ride his bike as a child and His greatest love in life was took art classes throughout spending time with family and his life. Mr. Hochman was the friends. He was preceded in embodiment of joie de vivre, death by his parents, Sam and never letting an opportunity Eva DuBro; his wife, Sandra to enjoy life pass him by. He (Roberts) DuBro; and his sister, was proud of his travels, which Shirley Fahrer. He is survived took him around the world to by his children, Jeffrey (Vonnie) all seven continents. He and DuBro, Sheri DuBro, Evan (Kari) Mrs. Hochman took many trips DuBro, eight grandchildren, with good friends. Some of his one great-grandchild, one sister, greatest adventures were taken numerous nieces, nephews, with his children, including and cousins. Interment was climbing the Himalayas with at Riverview Cemetery. his son, Jeff, and traversing the Memorial contributions may Drake Passage, sledding on be made to Ohio State College Antarctica, then rounding Cape of Optometry or Parkinson’s Horn with his daughter, Marla.

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Mr. Hochman is survived by his wife, Jeanne Krieger Hochman, James Bertram Hochman son Jeffrey Hochman (Petra), passed away on Sept. 23 at the daughter Marla Hochman, and age of 80, in Palo Alto, Calif. grandchildren Joshua, Jack, and The determination with which Abby Hochman. Interment was

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at Riverview Cemetery. The family requests donations be made to the Stanford Medicine Cancer Institute.

Roberta (Bobbi) Linda Hoffman, 72 of Land O’ Lakes, Fla., passed away July 5. Mrs. Hoffman was born in New Brunswick, N.J. and after attending high school and college, went on to earn two masters degrees. She dedicated her professional life to her special education students, whom she taught with her unique combination of heartfelt affection and no-nonsense style. Mrs. Hoffman leaves behind her loving husband of 46 years, Larry; her brother Richie (Debbie) Weiss and their family; daughter Jennie (Howard) Rothbaum; son Steve (Aly) Hoffman; and the lights of her life, her grandchildren Brad and Abby Rothbaum and Alex Hoffman. Her mother, Evelyn Davis, left us just over a year ago. Life took Bobbi and Larry from New Jersey to Indiana, where she met her lifelong friend Ellen Katzman, to Ohio and then to Florida, where she spent her one precious year of retirement continuing to keep us all in line with the intense love and dedication to her family that defined her. We will forever miss her and honor her memory every day. Donations may be made to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation, give2stjoeskids.org.

Marian Lorraine Plotnick (nee Goldflies) was born June 9, 1923, in Chicago, the daughter of Eugene and Sophie Goldflies and sister of Bruce Goldflies.

Mrs. Plotnick passed away on Oct. 9 at the age of 98. Trained as an occupational therapist at Tufts University in Boston, Mrs. Plotnick returned to Ohio with

her husband, Bertram Plotnick, with whom she enjoyed a loving marriage of over 53 years. An enthusiastic traveler and bridge player, she also was a talented home decorator. Mrs. Plotnick’s outgoing personality was always on display when meeting new people, and she was a very exuberant and doting grandmother. She is survived by her three sons, Stephen (Shaleta), Jeffrey (Theresa), and David; and three grandchildren, Anthony, Katherine (John), and Benjamin (Kaitlyn). Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. In memory of Mrs. Plotnick, please make charitable donations to the Mary Scott Nursing Center at 3109 Campus Dr., Dayton, Ohio 45406.

John L. Reger, born on Aug. 24, 1949 to John and Helen Reger in Dayton, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 10. Mr. Reger graduated from Belmont High School (1967), where he was class president and had great affection for his classmates and school. He attended Miami University in Oxford and graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business. Preparing to attend law school, Mr. Reger joined the national guard, requiring him to postpone school for a year. Returning from basic, Mr. Reger rethought the law career, and began to explore options in business. His uncle and friend, Robert Lahm, approached him with an offer to join a start-up, Winston Heat Treating company, and since 1972, that was his labor of love.

He derived great pleasure from growing the business and its reputation in the industry and cherished his co-workers, customers, and suppliers. Far and away, Mr. Reger’s greatest

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love and joy were his family: wife Sharyn, daughter Elise (Michael) Henderson, son David (Katlyn) Reger, and adored grandchildren Gavin, Vivienne, and Bianca. Truly beloved were Mr. Reger’s sister Janet (Dr. Robert) Van Etten, niece Maria (Kent) Rademaker, their twins Ella and Violet, and sister-inlaw Evelyn Goldstein, special cousins, family, and friends.

Mr. Reger was obsessed with taking care of things: leading and managing, while always attempting to make things better. Unfiltered, generous, and caring, he possessed a keen and offbeat sense of humor and sarcastic wit with a gift for satire and impressions. Mr. Reger was blessed with many friends and served as a best man 12 times. He loved casinos, business, politics, gardening, or just sitting quietly smoking a good cigar while pondering life. His favorite jobs were being owner and CEO of Winston Heat Treating, president of The Metal Treating Institute, and president of Temple Beth Or. He valued time spent at Delco Products, as a trucker for Winston, and warehouseman for Peninsular Steel. Mr. Reger received recognition from numerous committees, boards, and non- profits, including MTI’s Industry Legend Award.

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