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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer At the seven minutes, four seconds mark, viewSeven minutes into watching the first episode of Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein’s ers see Eleanor’s mother sitting on an open baldocumentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, 91-year- cony with her embroidery. The next shot is from the balcony, in front of Elisabeth. Standing behind old Holocaust survivor Eleanor Hambury Must her in the doorway are her sister-in-law, Hannah, saw film footage of a young woman in profile, and Elisabeth’s husband, Eleanor’s father, Fritz. sitting on a balcony in Germany with her emFritz caresses the back of his wife’s neck with broidery. The young woman then turns, looks his hand. She gives him a loving look, turns to directly into the camera with a broad smile, and talk with Hannah, and smiles to the returns to her embroidery. camera again.

The young woman is Eleanor’s The voiceover to this footage contrasts mother when she was pregnant with the scene: “When Nazi rule began with her. in 1933, there were 9 million Jews in “I was just blown away,” says ElEurope. Twelve years later, when the eanor, who watched the premiere of Second World War ended, in 1945, at the episode on Sept. 18. “It kind of least two out of every three of them had put me in turmoil. Just because you been murdered.” don’t expect to see your mother. She The person who took the home died in 1935. And that’s a long time movies was Dr. Otto Plaut, Elisabeth’s ago.” brother, Eleanor’s uncle.

Eleanor and her family had no Otto’s son, Eleanor’s cousin Dr. idea the footage would be incorporated into the new PBS documenEleanor Hambury Must Andrew Plaut, now in his 80s and living in the Boston area, donated the film to tary. the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “She’s very pregnant with me,” Eleanor says which partnered on the documentary The U.S. and of her mother, Elisabeth Plaut Hamburger, who the Holocaust. would die when Eleanor was 4. “Since I was Eleanor, who lives in Centerville, recalls first born in mid-May 1931, it must have been April of seeing the footage when Andrew restored and 1931.” digitized it in 2014.

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Some stories leave you speechless. Like Eleanor Must's. As soon as I could, I got the story up at our website, daytonjewishobserver.org, and pushed it out via Facebook. A week later, I Marshall received an email from Lynn Novick.

Weiss She, Ken Burns, and Sarah Botstein are the co-creators of the documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, which included footage of Eleanor's mother. "What a stunning and unforgettable story," Lynn wrote. "All of us who worked on the film were deeply moved, to put it mildly." It was a special surprise for Eleanor when Lynn gave her a call. We hope you'll join us Dec. 5 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force for an evening discussion of The U.S. and the Holocaust with Eleanor Must and Renate Frydman, curator of Prejudice & Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit onsite at the museum.

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Continued from Page Three An only child, Eleanor was born to Elisabeth and Fritz in Hamburg. In 1933, the Nazis forced industries in Germany to fire Jews in managerial positions. Fritz lost his job with Elektrozeit, a company that made and installed time clocks and security alarms.

It was in 1934 when Elisabeth, Fritz, and their daughter, Eleanor, departed Germany — the first of their relatives to do so.

Eleanor says her father Film footage of Eleanor Hambury Must’s mother in the didn’t struggle with his new PBS documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust. decision to leave Germany.

“For him, it was pretty clear.” came to live with them in Cleveland At first, Eleanor was sent to live in Heights at age 14. Their social circle, Switzerland while Fritz and Elisabeth Eleanor recalls, was with other Holomoved to Rome, where Fritz had a caust survivors from Germany who contract with Elektrozeit to establish a sought each other out. branch office there.

When Eleanor was 82 in 2014, she “That’s what he was supposed to began writing her autobiography. It do when he moved to Italy,” Eleanor includes her father’s autobiography, says. “But then my mother died, acwhich he also wrote when he was 82. cidentally in Rome, in that apartment “It’s just basically for my family, they set up. It was a faulty water heat- my children and grandchildren,” she er in the bathroom. Carbon monoxide says. What I Know Now is the title. is heavier than air. It lay low, and she “As I began to work on it, I began was in the bathtub when she died.” to understand what happened,” she As a single father after the death says. “As a kid, you don’t know. And of his wife, Eleanor says, Fritz was that’s why I titled it What I Know unable to fulfill his sales quota with Now.” Elektrozeit. He lost his job.

The book’s title page includes the He then started his own company; words, “Without my husband, the he assembled large electric clocks on love of my life, Ray Must, none of this public buildings in Rome and Vatican work would have been possible.”

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Celebrated artist and art teacher When Italy enacted its racial laws Ray Must died in July. He and at the end of 1938, Fritz and Eleanor Eleanor, a longtime early childhood left the country. Because of steep imteacher, were married for more than migration restrictions to the United 68 years.

States against German immigrants, Eleanor says she shared her experithe two departed for Havana, Cuba ences with her children when they in February 1939. There, they were were growing up. united with Elisabeth’s parents.

“They knew. It’s part of their upIn August 1940, Fritz and Eleanor bringing. And my faults and foibles were allowed into the United States as an adult are partially a reflection of via Key West, Fla. From there, they my experiences in the Holocaust.” traveled by bus to Mansfield, Ohio, “I hope that this story engenders where Elisabeth’s brother, Dr. Hans in our descendants sympathy toward Plaut, and his wife, Erica — Elisaimmigrants who come with less than beth’s dearest friend — took Eleanor we had,” Eleanor writes at the concluin while Fritz Hamburger found work. sion of her book. “Their aspirations Fritz also changed his name to Fred to live in a free society are as great as Hambury, which he hoped would ours. We need to pay good fortune sound less German to American ears. forward.”

A few months later, Eleanor’s materEleanor Must will join a panel discusnal grandparents also arrived from sion about The U.S. and the HoloCuba and lived with Hans and Erica. caust, at 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 5 at Elisabeth’s brother Otto, his wife, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Hannah, and their children had also Force, 1100 Spaatz St., Fairborn. Joinarrived in the United States, via Holing her on the panel will be Prejudice land, in 1938-39. and Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit Although Fred’s sister escaped the Curator Renate Frydman. Film producHolocaust, their older brother and ers/directors Sarah Botstein and Lynn his wife and children perished at the Novick will join virtually. The panel is hands of the Nazis. presented by ThinkTV and the Jewish Fred married a Holocaust survivor Community Relations Council. from Germany in 1945 and Eleanor

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many people as possible and to be there for people in the ways a rabbi needs to be."

Now that he's on the ground here, Glazer said he's listening, learning, and witnessing.

"Like I would say as a filmmaker, I'm trying to get as much footage shot as possible so that we can start the process of editing together our current story and also envisioning the future story in that journey together."

Filmmaking and architecture have played key roles in Glazer's journey to the rabbinate, his scholarship, and his engagement with Judaism.

He describes himself as a "lifelong learner in Jewish mysticism."

Glazer was born and raised in Toronto, also where his wife grew up. He was raised in a Conservative household, but his personal journey led him to attend Conservative, Orthodox, and Reform Jewish day schools in Toronto.

"And by grade seven, I left them all behind because none of them spoke to me," he said. "If I had understood and had been able to call it what it was when I was looking for it, it probably would have been the Jewish mystical experience and none of the educators or rabbis who I met were able to relate to me in that way or to speak that language to me."

He found the mystical experience through drawing and painting at schools for the arts. About a third of the way through an architecture program in college, he left the University of Waterloo and eventually studied French language and literature, philosophy, Continued on Page Six

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer The call came Wednesday, Sept. 21, four days before the beginning of Rosh Hashanah.

"Can you cross on Thursday?" Beth Abraham Synagogue President Scott Liberman asked Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer.

"We're packing up right now," the rabbi said.

He and his wife, Elyssa Wortzman, had sold their house in Montreal and were living with her parents in Toronto.

Their furniture was in storage.

"We had to have what we called our evacuation pack ready as soon as the call came from the immigration lawyers that we could cross," Glazer said.

Because of the U.S. government's backlog on visa approvals, the couple had been in a holding pattern, unable to enter the United States by Aug. 1, the start date of the rabbi's five-year contract with the Dayton area's only Conservative synagogue.

"We landed here late Thursday night," said Glazer, who prefers to go by the Hebrew term for rabbi and religious mentor, rav. "On angels' wings we made it."

He and Beth Abraham's longtime cantor, Andrea Raizen, began leading services together on the bima (stage) that Friday, Sept. 23.

Since August, Glazer's been with his new congregation virtually and on the phone.

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lthough he has spent most of his adult life outside of the Dayton area, Myron Stayman still has a strong, emotional connection to Beth Abraham Synagogue and the Jewish community in which he grew up.

“My family moved to Troy when I was 6 months old,” explained Myron. “And then to Dayton because of its larger Jewish community when I was 5. The synagogue was always important to us,” he said. “I can close my eyes and still visualize the yahrzeit plaques, social hall, and beautiful stained-glass windows. The rabbis and cantors all went out of their way to be nice to me.”

Those memories were a catalyst in deciding to purchase a burial plot in Beth Abraham’s cemetery. “It’s a gorgeous cemetery,” Myron commented. Knowing that his eternal home would be alongside multiple generations of family and friends, he also chose to support the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton campaign.

“It’s an additional insurance policy,” Myron continued. “My future home will be cared for and so will the home of my extended family. I’ve had a blessed life. How could I not participate?”

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focused on contemporary mystical Hebrew poetry written in Israel.

Continued from Page Five "The first book was mostly focused on female poets and film at the University of Toronto. and the second was more expansive, including male The shift came through an epiphany as part of his voices as well," he said. "But it's all an extension of architecture co-op study when he worked as a draftslooking for an experiential way of connecting to these man on a project to renovate a synagogue. mystical experiences and my love of Hebrew."

"The people I was working with didn't really seem He most recently served as senior rabbi of Conto understand what a synagogue was about and what gregation Shaare Zion in Montreal and has served sacred space was about," he said. "And I felt like I as senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom in San needed to also sort of do some archeology of myself."

Francisco and the JCC of Harrison, N.Y. Glazer said he was influenced by French thinker Glazer and his wife, artist and art teacher Elyssa Michel Foucault, who wrote about an "archeology of Wortzman, have been married for 18 years. Their the self." daughter, Tal, 16, is studying at Givat Haviva Interna"I was deeply immersed in my French-Canadian tional School in Hadera, Israel, likely through her high identity — but more French identity — in trying to school graduation. understand where I was coming from and who I was," Israel is where Tal has always felt most at home, the he said. "That part of me wanted to do an archeology rabbi said. of my own identity."

"We tend to go to Israel at least twice a year, either He decided to join an archeological excavation in as a family or I go there to teach at the Conservative Ashkelon, Israel. yeshiva or on fellowships, conferences, synagogue "I also challenged myself that I had to start gomissions, so she's come a lot with us." ing back to synagogue," he said. But he drifted away Givat Haviva, Glazer said, is an experiment in because he felt clergy didn't understand what he was shared society. Foreign students (Jewish and nonlooking for.

Jewish), Israeli Jews, and Israeli Arabs live and study "And I couldn't articulate it, but I knew I couldn't there together. find it at the shuls (synagogues)."

Over the past 15 years, Glazer has found much While an undergrad, he melded his learning in phi- inspiration as part of an archeological research project losophy and filmmaking with the great ethical dilemin Tiberias, Israel to uncover a little-known Chasidic ma in the Torah narrative of the Akedah, the binding of aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel) there in 1777.

Isaac. Glazer made a film about Danish theologian and "What drew me to it," he said, "was they didn't rephilosopher Søren Kierkegaard's book about the bind- ally have, not just a rebbe (dynastic leader of a Chasidic ing of Isaac, Fear and Trembling. sect), but there wasn't a tzadik (spiritual leader) figure "And so, I spent three to four years making this film, that the Chasid would turn to. It was a community which I eventually sold to television, the Canadian that was horizontal. Today, we would say it was egaliBroadcasting Corporation." tarian. They wouldn't have used those words. But they Rather than become a filmmaker, Glazer decided to were deeply committed to what they called mystical apply to the rabbinical program at Jewish Theological experiences of bonding through friendship."

Seminary in New York.

The rabbi said this relates directly to Dayton.

"I showed them my film for my entrance exam. I "I am committed to klal Yisrael (the Jewish people), was very chutzpadik (gutsy). I said, 'If you want me to so I resonate strongly with my Chabad colleagues and interview, I'm going to interview you. I want someone have collaborated with them in my Tiberian Chasidim on the panel who can speak French and watch my project as well as community-building efforts for all movie, and we can interview.' They had never heard Jews." anything like this before."

Glazer said his spiritual vision is inspired by the Because Glazer's parents had insisted he continue Neo-Chasidism of his teacher, Rabbi Art Green. his Hebrew language studies after he left Jewish day "I am honored that the shiddach (match) between school, he not only achieved fluency in Hebrew, he myself and Beth Abraham came to fruition, and I value came to love it. After he received his Conservative relational Judaism and hope to really develop meanrabbinic ordination, he returned to the University of ingful relationships with all my Beth Abraham chevre Toronto and earned his Ph.D. in religious studies. (friends) and beyond."

His dissertation, which led to two published books, He said he chose the Midwest because he immediately felt at home on his visit here.

"We want to explore the traditional egalitarian edge of Conservative Judaism, but also to be very open to the evolution of Conservative Judaism, which is really in a process of evolving and trying to find its next chapter."

The rabbi said the first priority he and Beth AbraUniversity of Dayton School ham will work on is its strategic planning process. of Engineering Associate Dean "We're working with the movement, the United Scott Segalewitz will discuss Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, to understand Perspectives from a Second better who we are, where we've come from, our very Generation Holocaust Survivor important history as a synagogue, and its place within as part of the university's annual the Dayton community — what the possibilities and Kristallnacht Remembrance at 5 the interests are of where leadership in the community p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 9 at the is poised presently, and what the short-term and longImmaculate Conception Chapel. term vision can be for us to be able to grow."

Kristallnacht, the Night of For his new congregants, Glazer said he strives evBroken Glass — Nov. 9 and ery day to be the rabbi that wasn't there for him when 10, 1938 in Nazi Germany — is he was searching. considered the start of the Holo- Scott Segalewitz "I try to be that rabbi that is open to the world and caust.

Prof. Sharon Gratto will conduct UD’s World Music is open to mystical experiences and spirituality, which was something I wasn't trained in at the seminary — Choir in a musical remembrance. nor were the rabbis who served me trained in. But I've For more information, contact UD Executive Direcbeen searching and cultivating those experiences for a tor of Campus Ministry Crystal Caruana Sullivan at few decades now." csullivan1@udayton.edu.

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Security camera video of young men overturning the sukkah at Miami University's Hillel at nearly 2 a.m. on Oct. 15 in Oxford, Ohio.

By Marshall Weiss The Observer In an email to its constituents Friday morning, Oct. 21, the Hillel at Miami University in Oxford released security camera video of three young men intentionally overturning its sukkah just before 2 a.m. on

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also Shabbat, marked the sixth Saturday, Oct. 15. day of Sukkot.

Hours after MU Hillel “Watching these three young distributed the security video, three young men came forward men circle the sukkah, enter the sukkah (where they encounand admitted to perpetrating tered Hebrew prayers on the the act. walls), and then intentionally As of press time, the unidecide to destroy the sukkah is versity and Oxford City Police were conducting investigations simply devastating to watch,” Fisch wrote. into the incident and weren't According to MU Hillel, ready to comment or release the approximately 1,000 Jewish identities of the men. students attend the university.

According to MU Hillel Fisch sent the Oct. Executive Director 21 email announcing Whitney Fisch, three the vandalism along young men jumped with the security the Hillel building’s video as MU Hillel fence Oct. 15. She was getting ready for said in the email its Family Weekend with the security Shabbat. video that the Ox“I find comfort ford Police Departin knowing that the ment was reviewing pride our Hillel at the video to identify Miami community the perpetrators. feels for its Jewish“What has shaken MU Hillel Exec. Dir. Whitney Fisch ness cannot and will our students and not be broken.” staff to the core and left me Minutes before the Famwith a pit at the bottom of my ily Weekend Shabbat began stomach is the complete violation of our property, and of our Friday night with 50 students and their families, "three young sacred space,” Fisch added in men admitted to being the three the Oct. 21 email. individuals from our secuThe seven-day Jewish harrity footage who desecrated vest festival of Sukkot commemorates the huts the ancient our sukkah," Fisch wrote in a follow-up email to the MU HilIsraelites lived in during their lel community on Oct. 24.

40 years in the desert before "We cannot offer any more entering the Promised Land.

Jewish households and institu- information on the identities or motivation as there are two tions erect sukkahs — tempoongoing investigations taking rary huts — and eat meals in place both at the university them over the festival. Oct. 15,

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Miami University President Gregory P. Crawford, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion Cristina Alcalde, and Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix emailed a statement to the Miami University community on the afternoon of Oct. 21 that the university “does not tolerate acts of vandalism, violence, or hate.”

“Many Miami community members, particularly Jewish community members, may be understandably distressed and feel unsafe after learning about this incident,” the statement continued. “We are committed to every Jewish student, faculty, and staff feeling welcome and included as part of the Miami community. As a university, Miami is committed to a safe environment for all students, faculty, and staff regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. We condemn the vandalism and desecration of the Sukkah, and all acts of vandalism and hate.”

The administrators also announced that Hillel and MU’s Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion would co-host a Shabbat of Love and Honor at Hillel at Miami on Friday, Oct. 28, 6-8 p.m. and invited the Miami community to attend.

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Book wins national Ohio GOP candidate defends ‘Jew you down’ comment religion writing award by saying Jews have ‘solid money principles’

By Andrew Lapin, JTA Facing criticism about her use in 2014 of the antisemitic phrase “Jew you down,” the Republican nominee for a competitive state Senate seat in Ohio said she was just trying to praise Jews’ frugality.

Michele Reynolds, a business owner and former public sector employee running as the GOP candidate in the state’s 3rd Senate district, self-published a book for business owners in 2014. In it, she wrote, “I learned from other cultures on how they spend their money. Have you ever heard the term ‘Jew you down’? This culture has a reputation for not wasting resources.”

The book, The Dreambiz Blueprint: 101 Business Tips on How to Develop and Operate Your Dream Business, is not easily available online. The passage was reported Oct. 19

by Cleveland.com reporter Jake Zuckerman and publicized by the Ohio Senate Dems caucus on social media.

The Reynolds campaign’s initial response, issued to the Columbus Dispatch, said the candidate had intended to spotlight “what she learned from the wisdom of the Jewish community and how they are reputable for building successful businesses with a foundation of solid money principles.”

Stories of Jewish Dayton by Dayton Jewish Observer Editor and Publisher Marshall Weiss has received Religion News Association's 2022 second-place award for Excellence in Nonfiction Religion Books.

An RNA Awards competition judge commented on the book, "In telling the stories of Jewish Dayton, Ohio, Marshall Weiss twists the old canard that 'all politics is local' by showing 'all religion is local.' Local religion reporters could learn from Weiss' reporting and do in their hometown what he has done with this book — show that the best religion stories are the local stories."

The History Press published Stories of Jewish Dayton last year.

But by late in the day Oct. 20, Reynolds had issued a more straightforward apology from her Twitter account, writing, “While it was never my intent to be hurtful or disrespectful when I wrote the book in 2014, I humbly apologize to the Jewish community and anyone offended by the expression. I won’t reference this phrase again, and if the book is ever republished, I’ll make sure it is removed.”

“I realize there are better ways to express my respect for my fellow brothers and sisters in the faith,” Reynolds added.

Reynolds, who has the endorsement of mainstream Republicans and business leaders in her state, tweeted a Rosh Hashanah message in September.

An online biography identifies her as “first lady and execu-

tive pastor” of Common Ground Destiny Center Church, where her husband is the lead pas- Michele Reynolds tor. She has previously directed Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s office of faithbased and community initiatives. Her other previous roles include commissioner of Ohio’s Commission on Fatherhood, and working in the Akron mayor’s economic development office. Ohio’s 3rd state Senate district includes parts of Columbus. The seat is currently held by a Democrat. In a previous local race, for county commission in 2018, Reynolds lost to the Democratic candidate by a wide margin.

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Coming-Of-Age exhibit's local premiere at Peace Museum The photography and written narratives of 31 Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the United States, Hungary, and Israel ranging in ages from high school students to older adults are on exhibit at Dayton's International Peace Museum, Nov. 3 through Dec. 17.

Entitled Coming-ofAge: Photographs and Stories From Teens to Lifelong Learners, the international exhibit —which premiered last year in Tel Aviv — was curated by Marcy L. Coming-of-Age photo by Eszter Krauth, Budapest, Hungary.

Coming-of-Age photo by Ben Biton, Western Galilee College, Israel.

Paul, formerly senior Jewish Agency for Israel. teenagers and young adults to find similarities in their director of Dayton’s Jewish Community Relations Dayton is in Partnership with Israel’s Western Galilives and to learn about and discuss their differences.

Council and now director of the U.S. Central Consorlee along with Budapest, Hungary, and more than a High school-age students met virtually for sessions tium of Partnership2Gether. dozen cities across the central United States. with other high school students around the world.

Those whose works are on exhibit hail from locales Using the PhotoVoice technique — a social justice So did young adults. Along the way, Paul found that linked through Partnership2Gether, a program of the methodology to create community change that incorolder adults in Dayton wanted to participate too.

Coming-of-Age: Photographs and Stories from porates photography and written narratives — Paul PhotoVoice is the same technique Paul used to Teens to Lifelong Learners is on exhibit at the Interasked participants to answer the question, “What was facilitate Partnership2Gether’s SlidingDors: Voices national Peace Museum, 10 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, your coming-of-age experience?” of the Second Generation project, which brings adult Nov. 3-Dec. 17, with an opening reception at 7 p.m., The JCRC received a grant from the World Religion children of Holocaust survivors together to help them Thurs., Nov. 3. For details, go to peace.museum.

Foundation in Dayton for the project, as a way for share their stories.

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Retired Dayton JFS Exec. Dir. dies at 85

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Rabbi Sheldon Switkin, executive logical Seminary, was a chaplain in the director of Dayton’s Jewish Family U.S. Air Force, and served as a pulpit Services from 1982 to 2002, died Oct. 4 rabbi with congregations in Columbus; at the age of 85. Over his 20-year tenure Long Island, N.Y.; and St. Louis. He rewith JFS, he oversaw the received his master’s degree in settlement of approximately social work from Ohio State.

250 Soviet Jews to Dayton “I remember all the wonbetween 1989 and 1996, derful counseling he prowith nearly 200 arriving in vided, directly and through 1992 alone as part of United his staff,” recalled Peter Wells, Jewish Appeal’s Operation retired Jewish Federation exExodus. ecutive vice president. “There He rallied volunteers and was the case of a man who JFS staff to set up apartments, lost everything and was living provide English language in his car and was contemplattraining, and job search asing suicide, and they spent all Rabbi Sheldon Switkin sistance and training. night helping him to survive “We had a very successful operation, and get on with his life. Shelly provided and it was because of Shelly,” said Irvin not only the counseling but resources to Moscowitz, who served as JFS chair continue life.” when resettlement was at its peak. “He “His whole life was Judaism,” Moswould do anything for anyone. The cowitz said. “He had that extra-special things he loved, he just devoted everysomething that people who knew him thing to it.” got to witness. I feel very fortunate that Born in Chicago, Switkin received his I was able to, and to continue it for all rabbinic ordination from Jewish Theothese years.”

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American Jews must give up the illusion that they have no enemies to the left or the right Boston. From the stage, I was told, his running mate, Winona LaDuke, shrieked, “We’re going to stop the slaughter in Palestine!” This would have been bad enough, given that it erased Israel’s name from the map and, with it, the numerous Jews then being murdered

by Palestinian terrorists in the name of “Palestine.”

But what made my blood run cold was the description of what followed: The crowd howled its approval and rose to its feet in a standing ovation.

At that moment, what I saw in my mind’s eye was Hitler and the great crowd rising as one to hail him. These people, I realized, wanted to kill me.

What followed was not merely anger, but a horrific sense of betrayal. I believed in the catechisms of the left. I felt that I was one of them. But now, I suddenly realized, they did not think I was one of them.

And this was because, despite everything, I did believe that the Jews have a right, at the very least, to defend themselves. I now knew that my for-

mer comrades did not believe in that right. But I did, and I would fight for it.

I will not go into the long journey that followed, which led me to Zionism, aliyah (immigration to Israel), and everything that came after. Suffice it to say, I rejected the left in its entirety, and became very right-wing for a very long time.

I can no longer count myself an ideological right-winger. I believe I have learned a great deal from both the left and the right, from the likes of Orwell and Camus along with Burke and C.S. Lewis. These days, I prefer to keep my own counsel.

But that sense of betrayal has never left me, and I am still angry about it.

That many Jews on the right now feel the same way is painful but also, I regret to say, not particularly surprising. All non-Jewish movements contain people who believe very ugly things about the Jews. The left has Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the right has its “alt” contingent and now Kanye West.

But I must say that I do not

agree with Haworth’s despairing conclusion that “no one cares about us.” There are nonJews on the right and the left who care very deeply about the Jews, whether they be Ritchie Torres on the left or Meghan McCain on the right. Sometimes they are forced to fight a rear-guard action against the haters, but they are there, they are not to be underestimated, and we must work to embrace them all.

Indeed, for Jews to believe that we have “no enemies to the left” is as absurd as believing we have “no enemies to the right.” There is no single political movement — except Zionism — that is monolithically philo-semitic. Jews, in the end, have no right or left. We have only ourselves and our friends or enemies, wherever they may be on the political spectrum. To wholly commit ourselves to one side or the other only sets us up for a rude awakening followed by a terrible disillusionment.

Does Trump hate Jews, or just 'bad Jews'?

“dual loyalty” accusation — that is, Jews pledge their true allegiance to Israel. But again, Trump is turning an internal Jewish discourse back on itself.

Let’s be honest: Caring about the well-being of Israel — political, social, military — is a normative value in the vast majority of American Jewish settings: synagogues, schools, summer camps, community councils. That’s not dual loyalty, but solidarity with millions of co-religionists and extended family members. Such solidarity is the right of any ethnic group, and Jews have rightly owned it, even as polls show that it is the minority of Jews who make Israel their numberone issue at the polls. Trump’s tweet is a fun house version of that tendency — demanding Jews stand in solidarity with Israel but on his terms, and exclusive of other priorities.

Trump’s tweet is of a piece with what Maggie Haberman, in her new book about Trump, describes as the “racial tribalism” the real estate mogul absorbed in the New York City of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. In

that Archie Bunker-ish New York, individuals were pegged and defined, for good and ill, by their ethnicity. In Trump’s view, Jews are good business people, savvy negotiators and of one mind when it comes to Israel — and are confounding and even ungrateful when they are not. That’s the Trump heard in a recent video clip, asking if the filmmaker was “a good Jewish character.” Good Jew or bad Jew? Tamkin calls her book an attempt to “wrestle with what I believe to be the one truth of American Jewish identity: it can never be pinned down.”

Still, a lot of people have tried — sometimes out of the best of intentions, and sometimes to push people out of the fold.

When we presume to tell ourselves who is and isn’t a “good Jew,” however, we shouldn’t be shocked when others — especially a politician who has made racial tribalism his brand — do the same.

By Benjamin Kerstein One of the worst aspects of Kanye West’s recent antiSemitic meltdown has been that many figures on the right have chosen to not quite endorse but to whitewash and obfuscate it.

Particularly shameful is that some Jewish conservatives have joined in the whitewash. Others, however, have expressed deep pain and anguish at seeing those they considered allies and friends rush to West’s defense.

One example of this was a cri de coeur by Ian Haworth, who has worked in conservative media. He wrote, “As we witness supposedly anti-antisemitism conservatives brush the open and unapologetic antisemitism of cultural figures like Kanye West under the rug in exchange for the second-hand cultural attention his presence might provide — as well as cash and clicks — a familiar and brutal reality has resurfaced for Jews: No one cares about us.”

“Until our movement is willing to look in the mirror and stick to their supposed prin-

By Andrew Silow-Carroll In her new book Bad Jews, Emily Tamkin frames recent American Jewish communal politics as a series of clashes between antagonists who insist there are right ways and wrong ways to be Jewish — that is, “good Jews” and “bad Jews.”

It’s a useful and revealing way to look at how Jews fight among themselves.

It’s also incredibly timely (or timeless). Donald Trump had his own version of “bad Jews” in mind when he tweeted in October that American Jews were insufficiently grateful to him for his support of Israel, and warned that “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — before it is too late!”

Some Jewish groups heard that as an antisemitic threat.

Even giving him the benefit of the doubt — I thought he meant that Israel itself would be in danger if Jews didn’t vote for a pro-Israel president like him the next time — it does fit

ciples, the Jewish people cast out from this tent will wonder whether any of this is worth fighting for,” he asserted.

I was moved by Haworth’s anger, because he felt betrayed, and I know what that’s like.

For me, the betrayal came from the other side. I grew up in an extremely left-wing Boston suburb and was not immune to the relentless indoctrination. In my teens and early 20s, I was a half-inch from being a communist. I considered all leftists my brothers and sisters in solidarity, and never questioned this conviction.

That changed with the outbreak of the Second Intifada.

At first, I went along with the general loathing of Israel that surrounded me, even when people began asking me why I, personally, was oppressing the Palestinians so horribly. It took me a while to finally wake up, but when I did, it was lifechanging.

The final straw came in 2000, when Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader held a massive campaign rally in

into a pattern in which Trump treats “the Jews” as a monolith, and distinguishes between the good Jews who vote for him and the bad Jews who don’t recognize their own self-interest. That sort of ethnic pigeonholing never ends well. And as I have written before, I don’t know if Trump is antisemitic, but he has certainly been good for antisemitism.

Trump was also echoing the kinds of internal Jewish conversations that Tamkin describes. It may be presumptuous for a gentile politician to explain how “good Jews” vote, but Jewish individuals and organizations have been doing it for years. Liberal Jews use the “good Jew/bad Jew” framing, on everything from immigration to LGBTQ rights. But it has over the years become a conservative specialty, especially when it comes to Israel: • In 2002, New York Times columnist William Safire urged Jewish Democrats to put their domestic agenda aside to vote

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for Republicans he felt had a better record on Israel.

• In 2008, neoconservative icon Norman Podhoretz lamented that liberalism had “superseded Judaism and become a religion in its own right.”

• In 2011, Jewish conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro tweeted, “The Jewish people has always been plagued by Bad Jews, who undermine it from within. In America, those Bad Jews largely vote Democrat.”

• In 2018, Jonathan Neumann turned that idea into a book-length attack on Jews involved in social justice movements, subtitled, How the Jewish Left Corrupts and Endangers Israel.

In each case, the writers implied that good Jews put the fate of Israel ahead of other values — which, to the degree that they are liberal, seem to the writers barely Jewish in the first place.

Some of those objecting to Trump’s tweet said it fed the

Benjamin Kerstein is a writer and editor living in Tel Aviv.

Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of the New York Jewish Week and senior editor of JTA.

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Synagogue Forum of Greater Dayton's Intro. to Judaism: 14 Tuesdays, 7 p.m. beginning Nov. 1. $36 single or couple.

Register at jewishdayton.org.

Beth Jacob Classes: Sundays, 2 p.m.: Conversion Class in person w. Rabbi Agar. Tuesdays, 7 p.m.: Weekly Parsha on Zoom w. Rabbi Agar. Thursdays, 7 p.m.: Jewish Law on Zoom w.

Rabbi Agar. Call to be added.

7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp., 937-274-2149.

Chabad Classes: Mondays, Nov. 7-Dec. 5, 7 p.m.: My G-d. $72. In person & online. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. Register at chabaddayton.com. 937-6430770.

Temple Beth Or Adult Classes: Sundays, 12:30 p.m.: Adult Hebrew. Tues., Nov. 1, 8, 22, 29, 6:30 p.m.: A Jewish Approach to Personal Self Defense led

by Rabbi Cary Kozberg. Free.

RSVP. Thurs., Nov. 3, 10 a.m.: Apocryphal Study on Zoom w.

Rabbi Chessin. Thurs., Nov. 3, 7 p.m.: Chai Mitzvah Zoom &

in person. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. templebethor.com.

937-435-3400.

Temple Israel Classes: Tuesdays, noon: Hybrid Talmud Study. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. Wed., Nov. 9, 16, 23, 30, 10 a.m.: Social Justice Torah Commentary w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz. Dorothy Lane Market, Washington Sq., 6177 Far Hills Ave., Wash. Twp. Sat., Nov. 5, 19, 26, 9:15 a.m.: Online Torah Study. Sat., Nov. 12, 9:15 a.m.: Hybrid Torah Study. tidayton. org, 937-496-0050.

Children & Teens

Jewish Youth Group Outdoor Movie Night: Sat., Nov. 19, 7 p.m. Grades 6-8. $10. 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Register at jewishdayton.org/events.

Family

Chabad Kids Make Shabbat: Thurs., Nov. 10, 5 p.m. Free.

Children 3-13 prepare Shabbat Dinner. Children receive apron & chef’s hat. RSVP rabbilevi@ chabaddayton.com. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

Chabad Family Shabbat Dinner: Fri., Nov. 11, 5 p.m.

Children free, Adults $20. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. RSVP chabaddayton.com/rsvp. 937643-0770.

long Learners: Nov. 3-Dec. 17.

International Peace Museum, 10 N. Ludlow St., Dayton. Thurs., Nov. 3, 7 p.m.: Opening reception. peace.museum.

0050. Nov. 20: (At Beth Abraham Synagogue, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood, 937-2939520) Bob Thum, Jewish Life in 19th-Century America. $7 each.

Temple Israel Prayer & Play: Sat., Nov. 12, 10 a.m. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-496-0050.

Beth Abraham Men's Club Sunday Brunch Speaker Series: Sundays, 10 a.m. Oct. 30: Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, Why would a wise child walk on the wild side? Lou Reed's Abject American-Jewish Songbook.

Nov. 13: Brig. Gen. Ret. Paul Cooper, Tactical Airlift in Desert Storm-My Personal Story of 7 Months Flying in the Desert.

Nov. 20: (In conjunction w.

Temple Israel's Ryterband Series) Bob Thum, Jewish Life in 19th-Century America. $7 each.

305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

RSVP to 937-293-9520.

Community

UD Kristallnacht Remembrance: Wed., Nov. 9, 5 p.m.

Immaculate Conception Chapel.

Scott Segalewitz, speaker. For info., contact Crystal Caruana Sullivan, csullivan1@udayton. edu.

Women

Chabad Women’s Circle Ladies Shabbat Dinner: Fri., Nov. 4, 6 p.m. $36. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. RSVP to dlmdayton@gmail.com. 937643-0770.

JFGD Women’s Philanthropy Event: Sun., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.

Dayton’s Woman’s Club. 225 N. Ludlow St., Dayton. Free. RSVP to Melanie Gomez, mgomez@ jfgd.net.

JCC Cultural Arts & Book Series

See Page 14 for schedule.

Exhibit

Partnership2Gether's Coming-of-Age: Photographs & Stories from Teens to Life-

Temple Israel Ryterband Brunch & Lecture Series: Sundays, 9:45 a.m. Nov. 6: Rabbi Emeritus David Sofian, Jewish Identity-How Many Legs Does Your Table Have? Nov. 13: Rabbi Sally Priesand, Reflections on My Life as a Rabbi. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 937-496-

Beth Jacob Jewelry Making Extravaganza: Sun., Nov. 13, 11 a.m. Paper bead jewelry w.

Laura Payne. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. bethjacobcong. org. 937-274-2149.

Temple Beth Or Interfaith Thanksgiving Service: Mon., Nov. 21, 7 p.m. Partnering w.

Dayton Mercy Society, David’s United Church of Christ, St. Charles Borromeo & Christ Church United Methodist.

At Christ Church UM, 3440 Shroyer Rd., Kettering.

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CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue

Conservative Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

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

Beth Jacob Congregation

Traditional Rabbi Leibel Agar Sundays & Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m.

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

7020 N. Main St., Dayton.

937-274-2149. bethjacobcong.org

Temple Anshe Emeth

Reform Fri., Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. w. Rabbinic Intern Anna Burke 320 Caldwell St., Piqua.

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

Temple Beth Or

Reform Fridays, 6:30 p.m.

Rabbi Judy Chessin Asst. Rabbi/Educator Ben Azriel 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., Nov. 4, 6 p.m.

Fridays, Nov. 11, 18, 25, 6:30 p.m.

Sat., Nov. 12, 10:30 a.m.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

937-496-0050. tidayton.org

Temple Sholom

Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg 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.

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

Riding life's roller coaster of Magic and Loss Surprising spiritual advice from Lou Reed's American-Jewish songbook

By Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer Beth Abraham Synagogue “You can't depend on your family you can't depend on your friends You can't depend on a beginning you can't depend on an end” — Lou Reed, Busload of Faith (New York, 1989) Life can become very routinized and yet feel random — so upon whom and what can you really count on? How can we be continually surprised in our

Perspectives spiritual lives, even as skeptics?

Is a “busload of faith” enough?

Let's explore what it means to ride life’s roller coaster through moments of magic and loss and why it can even in the midst of it remain surprising.

I recall my surprise when I attended the Passover cabaret known as the Downtown Seder at City Winery in New York when Lou Reed was cast as the wise child (chacham) as he read an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven! Beneath my amazement resonated the words of the remarkable late, great music critic, Ellen Willis, who encapsulated the genius of Lou Reed as early as 1978, that he had “made a fateful connection between two seemingly disparate ideas — the rock-androller as self-conscious aesthete and the rock-and-roller as selfconscious punk.” How could this rock-and-roller as selfconscious aesthete punk who sang about “walking on the wild side” be anything but the wicked child (rasha)? It is nothing short of surprising. Through the years of my own spiritual searching and growth while listening to Lou Reed, I realized

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he too was searching and grow- (New York, 1989): ing, always ready to surprise “You can't depend on intelliand be surprised. Many do not gence realize that Lou Reed grew up ooohhh, you can't depend on as Lewis Allan Reed, (19422013). Reed became a somewhat God You can only depend on one renowned singer-songwriter and sometimes outrageous per- thing you need a busload of faith to former whose songbook overflows with the lyrical landscape get by, watch, baby” meant to shock and surprise.

Everyone — even a skeptic Reed's songbook is woven from — experiences roller coaster the midst of living in a horrific highs and lows in life, what the world after Auschwitz, HiroJewish mystics call ratzo v’shov, shima, Chernobyl. The soberand that oscillation ing punch of reality really hit Lou, who feels interwoven and confessed, “Between integrated into our two Aprils I lost two very fabric of being, friends/Between two especially on the Aprils magic and mean streets of New loss...” That is the York from the 1970s brief poetic inscriponwards. tion that marks the But what continliner notes of an ues to surprise me underappreciated is how Lou Reed’s Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer album called Magic songbook grew and and Loss (1992). Lou also manmatured with surprising spiriaged to sneak into the credits tual advice, even as a skeptic who cannot depend on anyone more heartfelt words of mourning: “This album is dedicated or anything. to Doc and especially to Rita."

Growing up in large part by While Rita remained a mystery, fleeing from his Long Island Lou was more explicit about his suburban upbringing quickly befriending legendary songbrought Lou to the bowels of New York and his foray into the writer Doc Pomus, who died bohemian world of The Factory, a year prior to this recording. where he encountered countless Some of Reed’s most heartfelt legends including Andy Warhol lyrics emerged as bittersweet laments forged from the pain he that birthed his first musical experienced as he witnessed his venture known as the Velvet friends (like Andy Warhol and Underground.

Doc Pomus) dying, in Power and That short period became Glory (Magic and Loss, 1992): the stuff of New York arts and culture legends and many of his “I saw a great man turn into a fellow seekers from then never little child survived to later chapters in life as did Lou. So one hears the The cancer reduced him to dust His voice growing weak as he challenges amid the struggles fought for his life swirling around him through With a bravery few men know that era in the crucible of surviving beyond it when he sings I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs of needing a Busload of Faith Trying to stop the cancerous spread And it made me think of Leda and The Swan And gold being made from lead The same power that burned Torah Hiroshima Portions Causing three-legged babies and death Shrunk to the size of a nickel November 5: Lech Lecha To help him regain his breath” (Gen. 12:1-17:27) November 12: Vayera (Gen. 18:1-22:24) November 19: Chaye Sarah (Gen. 23:1-25:18) November 26: Toledot (Gen. 25:19-28:9)

As Lou listened deeply to life's roller coaster of one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1950s and 1960s, Doc Pomus, he also witnessed how this White Jewish singer on crutches had the courage to sing in blues

clubs and never let polio deter his love for music and from beginning his career as a blues singer in the 1940s.

As it happens, in New York, Lou Reed lived a couple of blocks away from Doc Pomus and their friendship revolved around listening to old blues records together and sharing reflections on songs and the art of songwriting. Despite the “isotopes introduced into his lungs," Pomus passed away after a valiant battle.

While Lou Reed attended Pomus’ funeral, he heard Jimmy Scott singing Someone to Watch Over Me, as per Pomus’ last wishes. Hearing Scott sing that brokenhearted song at Doc’s funeral was one of the most powerful experiences that touched Lou and inspired the lyrics for Power and Glory, on which Scott sings a single refrain, “I wanted all of it,” in this context: “And I was struck by the power and the glory I was visited by a majestic hymn Great bolts of lightning, lighting up the sky As the radiation flowed through him He wanted all of it Not some of it” To want all of it (hakol) and not settle for some of it is the paradox of being human — as Ecclesiastes quips, “all of life is merest of breaths.”

Many encounters with remarkable people turned into friendships that came and went, but something about each encounter would always inspire Lou’s journey and the memories left a lasting impression.

Despite the brevity of these encounters, Lou learned much from them, and from fellow seekers, especially how to get perspective, as he sang in Perfect Day (Transformer, 1972): “Just a perfect day You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else

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Someone good” No matter how skeptical one may become, Lou’s roller coaster lyrics remind us that deep within any darkness there is still goodness, there is always a moment that shines on. Despite his apparent skepticism that “You can't depend on your family/you can't depend on your friends," nonetheless he felt “struck by the power and the glory/I was visited by a majestic hymn” while watching his friend pass on.

Lou’s friendships teach us still how the enduring importance of such encounters, without beginnings or endings, really remain in the timeless flow of the song.

And if I’ve surprised you by sharing this spiritual advice from the mean streets of New York, if you want to discover why a wise child would walk on the wild side, join us at Beth Abraham Men’s Club brunch Sunday, Oct. 30 to explore another side of this fascinating American-Jewish songbook of Lou Reed: Why would a wise child walk on the wild side?

Who else could be this mysterious chronicler of the misbegotten of New York’s infernal underworld afterhours, revealing the hidden lyrical light of his misfit characters, infusing them with dignity and devotion to authenticity except the lyrical rocker Lou Reed? Come to be surprised.

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Jonah Sandler, founder and CEO of Scene75 Entertainment, has received Wright State University's Honorary Alumni Award. Jonah has served on the Dean’s Corporate Advisory Board of the Raj Soin College of Business. He also serves as chair of the Student Experience Committee, and has helped the college develop several programs, including Business 1000, the Professional Business Institute, and Wright Venture.

Jewish Federation Development Director Lidia Zambilovici has been named to the first cohort of Jewish Federations of North America and Repair the World's Catalyst Jewish professional development initiative for Federation professionals focused on next-gen engagement. She is one of 14 professionals from 12 Federations across North America who will create programming grounded in volunteerism and Jewish learning for local community members in their 20s and 30s.

The nine-month virtual program includes training from Repair the World educators, with in-person service learning at Jewish Federations’ General Assembly Oct. 30-Nov. 1, and micro-grant funding to pilot a new volunteer/service initiative or grow an existing one.

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Wallman-Guggenheimer Joel and Judi Guggenheimer are pleased to announce the engagement of their son Samuel to Frances Wallman, daughter of Jon and Sally Wallman.

Frances has a master's degree in international security studies from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and is currently employed with the State Department in Washington, D.C. Sam graduated from Georgetown Law School in 2021 and was admitted to the New York bar in June 2022. He is working at the firm of Shearman & Sterling in Washington, D.C. Frances is the granddaughter of the late Mary Barker Warren, the late Robert Milton Warren, the late Jerold Morris Wallman, and the late Bernice Roth Wallman. Sam is the grandson of Paul and Margaret Maranka and Henry and the late Barbara Guggenheimer. A June 2023 wedding is planned.

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For goodness' sake The Power of Stories Series

At this year’s Rosh Hashanah party, soldiers at one Israeli army base were excited to learn there would be a raffle.

As hundreds of soldiers each contributed 50 shekels and put their names into the raffle box, the buzz in the room grew.

The winning ticket would

Candace R. Kwiatek receive the entire sum of 15,000 shekels. One of the soldiers debated what name to put on his ticket. He could really use the money. But a fellow soldier had recently been wounded on a military mission and was having a rough time. He chose to write that soldier’s name instead of his own.

The moment of truth arrived. The commander shuffled through the box, selected a ticket and, miraculously, announced the wounded soldier’s name. Later while cleaning up the room, the compassionate soldier emptied the box of unused raffle tickets into the trash. He noticed the name of the wounded soldier written

on a ticket. Puzzled, he picked out another — and again, there was the name of the wounded soldier. One after the other, every ticket was inscribed with the wounded soldier’s name.

What is goodness? In Jewish thought, goodness is human action, virtuous behaviors modeled after Divine goodness.

Kindness. Generosity. Benevolence. Honesty. Altruism.

At its best, it’s about being focused on others: acknowledging we are all equal in our humanity, recognizing the Divine image in every person, and acting accordingly.

Goodness is also about being benevolent moral caretakers of God’s Creation for the benefit of humankind. In the words of Aristotle, “Human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.”

However, goodness itself isn’t an action—How do you "do" goodness? It’s a category that encompasses a broad range of acts: providing for the needy, teaching someone a skill, welcoming guests, judging others favorably, bringing about peace between people.

From the Bible to rabbinic works to prayer and beyond, acts of goodness abound in Jewish literature and law. But

in daily life today, what does goodness look like? Unusual circumstances and spur-of-themoment decisions could benefit from a straightforward, easyto-remember guiding principle, especially when no familiar mitzvah (commandment) seems to apply.

These stories highlight traditional guiding principles to consider.

People first. Known as The Meat Maker, a stretch of the Trans-Canada highway through Banff National Park was once perilous to motorists and wildlife alike. A highway expansion project in the 1980s decided to address the problem. One wildlife research scientist acknowledged that the project’s primary focus was on protecting motorists, not animals, but eventually the needs of both were met.

Within 30 years, the park had the most wildlife crossing structures—tunnels and bridges—of any park in the world.

Meanwhile, Parks Canada created techniques to research and monitor animal movement, scientifically demonstrated proof of immensely improved motorist safety alongside increased genetic diversity among the animal populations, and continues to influence and assist similar development worldwide.

Entrepreneur and author Tony Tjan concludes, “Purpose-

ly and proactively put people first in your decision making.”

Greater needs. Businessman Samuel Abraham was rushing to catch a train when he passed a young boy walking barefoot.

He stopped and asked the youngster why he wasn’t wearing any shoes. When he learned the boy had none, Abraham took him to a nearby shoe store and bought him a pair, and then went to catch the next train. In the words of Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, "Consider the needs of others before your own, and acknowledge when theirs are greater."

Right and good. The familyowned E. Leitz Inc., famous for Germany’s Leica camera, had a tradition of enlightened policies toward its workers, many of whom were Jewish. When Hitler became Germany’s chancellor in 1933, the company’s patriarch, Ernst Leitz II, began receiving frantic calls from Jewish employees asking for help.

He quietly began assigning Jewish employees, their families, and even friends to Leica sales offices in France, Britain, Hong Kong, and the United States. There, Leica executives paid them a small stipend until they found jobs in the industry.

Known as the Leica Freedom Train, this little-known operation saved hundreds of Jews.

As written in Deuteronomy, “Do what is right and good in God’s eyes.”

God's ways. During the Depression, Sam Fishman’s parents had a little candy store in Brooklyn where they worked 18-hour days year-round to provide for their family. One scorching summer morning, a thin middle-aged man in a well-worn suit sat down at the soda fountain, exhausted.

In a quavering voice, he told Sam’s father how he had begun walking long before dawn from the Bronx, 20 miles away, hoping to land the advertised tailor position nearby. But when he got there, the job had already been taken. He sobbed, wondering when he would find work and how to tell his family.

Sam recounts, “I’ll never forget Pa’s face as he cried silently with his fellow man. He went to the register, took out $2 and change — the whole morning’s receipts — and gave it all away.”

Comforter. Provider. Rescuer. Deuteronomy challenges us to “Walk in God’s ways always.”

It has been said, “The good of any thing is found in its ability to accomplish what it was created for…to realize its purpose for existence as intended by its maker.”

Our task as Jews, as humans, is to be partners with God in the ongoing experiment of Creation, to bring the blessings of goodness into the lives of others.

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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

by Debby Applegate. She was dubbed “the Queen of Tarts” and “the Female Al Capone,” and she hosted the biggest names of the era from glitterati to gangsters in her Manhattan brothels. Madam is a brilliant biography that reads like a novel and brings the Jazz Age to life, from high society to underworld.

Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish by Cathy Barrow.

If you love eating New York bagels fresh from the kitchen, this book is for you. With only five ingredients, you can make your own bagels, and the possibilities for accompaniments are endless. This book is a delight.

Never Simple by Liz Scheier. You can love someone who has caused you a lot of harm. At the age of 18, the author learned her long-dead dad wasn’t really her father, her social security number was a fake, and her birth had never been recorded. Compelling and daunting in turn, Never Simple is a memoir of both the author and her mother: a single parent plagued by escalating mental illness and a daughter trying to survive and learn who she really is.

Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat by Mara Rockliff. Nobody eats those! In the 1950s, grocery stores sold only about five dozen different kinds of vegetables and fruits. Today that number is between 700 to 800. What prompted Americans to try something new, like kiwi fruit, mushrooms, or purple potatoes? Discover the answer and much more in this fascinating tale about a Jewish immigrant who changed the way we eat. Perfect for preschool and primary grades.

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Dig into Jerusalem’s subterranean history

By Howard Freedman, j.

Jerusalem has a particularly fraught archaeological heritage, with the battle over the city’s present and future reflected in disagreements surrounding its past. In Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City, Andrew Lawler shows how, just as the city reveals layers of history, so does the story of its excavation, with generations of archaeologists breaking earth in pursuit of radically different agendas.

Lawler begins with the fledgling archaeological efforts of the mid-19th century, which expressed the colonial aspirations of Great Britain and France in Ottoman-governed Palestine. The earliest explorers were motivated both by expectations of treasures to loot and by the enduring Christian connection to the city.

At the 1865 meeting that saw the creation of the Palestine Exploration Fund, the Archbishop of York summoned memories of the Crusades in declaring for claims of belonging. that “Palestine belongs to you and to But tensions weren't limited to Jews me, it is essentially ours” and calling for and Arabs. Among Jews, there devela “new crusade to rescue from darkness oped persistent rifts between the largely and oblivion much of the history of that secular academics and the rabbis. country in which we all take so dear an With political leaders needing the interest.” support of religious parties, one of the The excavations that followed often concessions frequently made was to provoked the suspicion and opposition uphold the opinions of the religious of local Muslims and their leaders, with establishment concerning what could particular concern about violating the and couldn't be dug up. As a result, acasanctity of the Noble Sanctudemic archaeologists sometimes ary or, to Jews, the Temple worked clandestinely.

Mount.

The author goes into fascinatAlthough they already ing detail about numerous digs. constituted a majority of the He notes that, as a consequence city’s population, Jews were of most Israeli archaeologists’ uninvolved in these efforts. singular interest in uncovering It wasn't until 1912 that Rayremnants of Jewish existence in mond Weill, a Frenchman, ancient Jerusalem, remains from would become the first Jew the Roman, Byzantine, Crusader to break ground, in an effort Andrew Lawler and Ottoman periods were somefunded by Baron Edmond times sacrificed in order to reach de Rothschild. While the competition what lay beneath. between France and England continued, As archaeologist Meir Ben-Dov the division between Jew and non-Jew stated bluntly, “The brutal fact is that would now become more pronounced. if you want to know what lies under a The subterranean ventures assumed certain stratum, you have no choice but a different tone following the estabto destroy it.” lishment of the State of Israel, as the He also chronicles the increasing agendas of competing colonial powers tendency of excavations to trigger powere replaced by those of residents of litical tensions between Arabs and Jews. the contested region, with archaeology In particular, the extensive tunneling assuming a politicized nature. along the entire western perimeter of With Jews and Arabs each minimizthe Temple Mount led to destabilizing ing each other's historical connection buildings in the Muslim Quarter and to the land, the uncovering of material to accusations about trespassing into evidence offered significant implications holy territory. And in 1999, Muslims dug beneath the Temple Mount in order The JCC Cultural Arts & Book Series pres- to create the vast al-Marwani Mosque, offending archaeologists and religious ents Andrew Lawler virtually, at 7 p.m., Jews alike.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 in a program at The Lawler effectively conveys how Torch Lounge, Kennedy Union, University of Dayton. The cost is $6, free with student digging up Jerusalem, while continuing to provide stunning new insights, ID. UD Assoc. Prof. of History Dorian has often provided more kindling to a Borbonus will also talk about archeology. frequently flammable environment.

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How Polly Adler ended up running Prohibition’s hottest bordello

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By Renee Ghert-Zand The Times of Israel Like many early 20th century Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the United States, Polly Adler wanted to make something of herself.

Although largely forgotten today, she did make it big in her time — as the leading madam of the Jazz Age. Anyone who was anyone in the 1920s and 1930s made their way to Adler’s place in Manhattan. Beyond a highpriced house of ill repute, it was an opulent gathering place to mix and mingle while drinking bootleg liquor during Prohibition. It was a salon where entertainers, writers, businessmen, politicians, professional athletes, and mobsters rubbed shoulders, exchanged ideas, and cut deals.

Robert Benchley, Desi Arnaz, Joe DiMaggio, Milton Berle, Lucky Luciano and Walter Winchell were but a few of the household names who frequented the bordello, dropping lots of cash for illicit alcohol, gorgeous girls, or both.

Women, including the writer Dorothy Parker, also showed up. Duke Ellington would drop The JCC Cultural Arts & Book Series presents Debby Applegate, 7 p.m., Sun., Nov. 13 at The Dayton Woman's Club, 225 N. Ludlow St., Dayton, with a jazz concert before her talk. The cost is $12. Register at jewishdayton. org/events.

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by with members of his band to play a set or two.

Adler also sent women out to service clients. There is circumstantial evidence that one of them was politician Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who later became the president who shepherded the country through the Depression and World War II. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Debby Applegate brings us back in time to this “speakeasy with a harem” in her biography of Adler.

Published ast November, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age, is the story of both Adler and the era in which she operated. In captivating prose, Applegate

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provides a vivid and detailed account of how the underworld worked, and how it intersected with the oftcorrupt politicians and law enforcement that enabled it to continue to flourish.

As the cost of doing business, Adler herself paid members of the vice squad thousands of dollars in bribes every month.

“She was a window, a lens, that could open up a much bigger history of the period,” Applegate said of Adler from her home in New Haven, Conn.

“Prohibition was an odd period because we have made this everyday activity illegal, and that changes the morality of things…If you want to have a glass of beer you have to get it from a criminal...You start getting this bleeding between what is acceptable and what is unacceptable. It turns the world of vice, the underworld, into chic and glamor instead of scummy and dangerous. It’s where the action is, where all the interesting people are. Polly was riding that cultural shift. Suddenly women of the night are like bootleggers, and she slides in,” Applegate said.

Adler was born around 1900 and grew up in the Russian Empire’s Pale of Settlement in the village of Yanow, located in modern-day Belarus.

Education-minded, she had hoped to attend high school in the nearby city of Pinsk, but her parents decided that the family would immigrate to the United States, and that Polly (then known as Pearl) would go first.

She arrived in America alone at age 13, living first with a family from Yanow that had settled in Massachusetts, and later with relatives in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Plans for the rest of the Adler’s family to join her were stymied by the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Although her parents and younger brothers would all eventually make it over, Adler was stranded and forced to be independent from the moment she left home.

The ambitious and intelligent Adler quickly realized that her sweatshop jobs would get her nowhere. And she learned quickly about life’s harshness after being raped by a factory foreman, undergoing an illegal

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abortion, and being thrown out Adler supported her parents up and moving her bordello to by her relatives. and younger brothers after they a new location at a moment’s With nowhere to go, Adler arrived in the United States notice, paying off law enforcefell into a bohemian circle, and — but it’s not known if they ment to avoid arrest and jail eventually into the regular com- understood where the money time, and getting caught in the pany of hustlers and gangsters. came from. middle of feuds between gang“Polly and her pals didn’t Adler kept her professional sters took its emotional and even want to be good…When and personal lives private physical toll. you feel as Polly did, rejected when visiting her parents. But So why did she keep doing by your family and isolated according to Applegate, Adler’s it? Why didn’t she quit after from them, when you feel like father would have known she had enough to buy nice no one cares whether you live something, especially since his clothes, jewelry, fur coats, a car or die, you start to find your daughter bought stocks and and an apartment? friends among the pariahs, properties under his name and “I do think that she gets where you are welcomed. had him sign for them. It was addicted to the money…She That’s where only later, when says at one point, ‘As the retired people say to Adler appeared madam I am going to be a pahell with the rest in newspaper riah, but as Madam Polly who of the world,” articles related runs the most opulent bordello Applegate said. to the Seabury in New York, society will come According to investigations to me,'” Applegate said. the author, there into municipal “It is hard for us to put ouris no evidence corruption in the selves in that mindset now, but that Adler ever 1930s, that her when you, from all corners, see admitted to mother and other how money and sex and male turning tricks relatives started prerogative interact, you say herself. However, to get wise to to yourself, if I could just cut Applegate does her professional a corner and take the advaninsinuate in her activities. tage that others are constantly book that Adler “Her family taking, just for a little while, most likely did so Debby Applegate followed her to it starts to seem more acceptin 1919, when she California after able,” she said. was first out on her own and her retirement and was happy By the end of World War II, hungry. to take her money. But her Adler, who remained single, “Madams almost never like mother refused to have her at decided to get out of the busito admit that they worked as the Passover Seder. It bothered ness and retire to a quiet life prostitutes before they were Polly very deeply right to the in Los Angeles. She went back madams, but it’s unlikely that very end,” Applegate said. to finish high school and earn they skip right As glamoran associate degree. That, and to manageous as it was for writing her memoir with the ment,” AppleAdler to host Ahelp of a ghostwriter, were the gate said. list friends and proudest moments for Adler, A histoparade through whose opportunity for an edurian as well as the hottest cation had been snatched away a biographer, nightclubs with from her as a young teenager.

Applegate had her prettiest girls A heavy smoker, Adler died been unaware of Adler until (some of whom went on to beof cancer in 1962 at age 62. To she came across her blockbuster come famous Hollywood and her last day, she never openly 1953 memoir titled A House Is Broadway actresses and singquestioned the morality of her Not A Home in the Yale library ers), her life as a madam was activities as a madam. stacks. The thin volume, which extremely stressful. Her success “But she did say that she sold 2 million copies when it was due to her discretion and could never really be happy, was first published, intrigued natural business acumen, but because she knew too much Applegate. also to her ability to stay one about human nature,” Apple“With this book, it felt like I step ahead of the law. Packing gate said. was unearthing stuff that was hidden, and if I didn’t share it, it would not be shared,” she said.

Applegate was in touch with Adler’s relatives in Israel and the United States while conducting many years of research, and discovered that members of the older generations had not been eager to speak about Adler and her memoir.

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer really considered a If you're working on your Chanukah gift-giv- viable option and there ing list, all-around pop culture vulture Mathew are people who talk Klickstein might suggest adding two books: See about this in the book: You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, how graphic novels Fandom, and The Triumph of Geek Culture, pubcame about and how lished by Fantagraphics in September; and The something like Maus Little Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture, to be pubcould happen, and lished by Rockridge Press Nov. 22. Klickstein is why it was so importhe author of SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickel- tant not only for telling odeon’s Golden Age, and co-author of Springfield the story of his father Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a in the Holocaust, but Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. Here, he shares what he did aside from why he plunged into Comic-Con and Jewish that was the format culture for his latest projects. (of the graphic novel genre).

Mathew Klickstein What should our readers know about See You Another great Jew, at San Diego?

Will Eisner, was the ultimate progenitor of the I wanted the ultimate end-all and be-all hisgraphic novel. Even the biggest award in comtory on all this. I realized the best way of doing ics, it’s called the Eisners and they are given that would be through the narrative of the preevery year through Comic-Con. It was originally history, history, and expansion of the largest pop called the Kirby Awards, another great Jewish culture gathering worldwide. It’s not just Comic- guy (Jack Kirby), and he's there on the cover.

Con, it’s about a whole kind of Another Jewish guy, Forrest J. Ackerman, who community. is considered the father or People will be very surprised the godfather of modern what’s in there. For example, fandom, he published a very one of the interviewees, John important magazine that’s Pound, is the first artist to have still kind of around in its worked on the Garbage Pail own way (Famous Monsters).

Kids drawings. It was created The last picture in the entire by well-known Jewish comic book is this great picture of artist and graphic novelist Art Forrest at the Ackermansion.

Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman So Jews are all over the place created Garbage Pail Kids, but in the story of all this. he got John Pound, his friend, to work on Wacky Packs, which What intrigues you about is another one. Spiegelman was Comic-Con? very smart. He was making You can see the people money on the side doing Wacky who really made it happen, Packs and Garbage Pail Kids who brought it together. and kooky things, and meanThey did so because there while that gave him the opwas this intersection like portunity and the many years the cantina in Star Wars, the

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bar in Treasure Island. All these different people who are there. People would go there to get work. Because people knew they’d see, even early on, Bradbury and others. And as early as the mid-'70s, you start to have Hollywood come down with Star Wars and Star Trek and others.

And it became a known thing that you go there and not only maybe have a good time, not only maybe sell some things, but you might meet some editors or producers and end up working for them. A lot of people did.

One of the ways I was able to do this project — talk to all these people — the main nexus of folks who created ComicCon are all still very much friends with each other. Comic-Con for them has become almost more like a high school reunion and they all grew up together.

They all worked on projects together.

And you throw in anything — Hanna-Barbera, Marvel, DC, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers, Disney — all these people went on, everyone who didn’t become a creative did become some kind of professor, got very involved in the science world.

things sometimes and they would say, "What’s that?" So I would say, "Let’s talk about that."

They didn’t know who the Marx Brothers were. Or the Three Stooges.

They struggled with the idea of slapstick. No Borsht Belt. No vaudeville.

No George Burns or Henny Youngman.

And I realized that, especially right now, we’re supposed to be going through this transition (in education) where they’re shedding a spotlight on history that hasn’t ever been illuminated before.

We know there have been explicit issues, in California, in the Academy Museum, somehow all the Jewish contributors (were excluded). That was upsetting.

And (California Gov.) Gavin Newsom’s plan to teach ethnic studies that left out Judaism as well. It’s explicitly happening that we are being left out of this push to bring some stories back into the curriculum.

These people are very important: they helped create Broadway, American comedy, radio, storytelling, and I think it’s really important to give them to the younger generaDo you identify as tion. inside that community I wanted to do a series looking out, or outside of children’s books, looking in? each that would focus I aspire to be an on a different imporoutsider looking at it tant Jewish cultural without being objective. icon. I started pitching I’m not necessarily too it around. In the three involved in the comic years I’ve been here (in scene, and I’m not a Dayton), I’ve come out part of the group that with five books. I had a comes and makes a lot lot of trouble selling this of this happen. Comicbook. I had spoken with Con has been around one company. They, a for over 50 years now. few months later, actualThere’s never been anything like this ly came back to me. They said they were book. There was a documentary, there developing a Jewish culture encyclopewas a Rolling Stone article that came out dia. Their idea was, why don’t we put it in 2017 that attempted to tell the origins all together in one thing? Marx Brothers of Comic-Con. And there were errors. and Three Stooges and Fanny Brice and This is an oral history. The raw stories new people and old people and food. that are in there, this reminds me of It’s lighthearted, it’s fun, there are talking to my grandparents and other entire sections: Jewish critics, Jews and people’s grandparents. A lot of these comics. We wanted it to be eclectic and people are not going to be around much expansive. And there’s fictional and hislonger. We have some who are already torical. So you will see Dr. Fleischman gone. from Northern Exposure, but you’ll also see Freud and Einstein in there.

What can we expect from The Little Adults will appreciate it, but I hope Encyclopedia of Jewish Culture? they read it to their children. I try to I’ve done theatre here with children’s keep it sophisticated but fun. It doesn’t groups. It was called Dare2Defy and read exactly like an encyclopedia. I can now, very smartly, TheatreLab Dayton. see a 10 or 11-year-old enjoying this, cerWe had kids from all over town. We tainly ones I worked with in my theatre were a group of people writing a play classes would be able to read this and together. I would make references to enjoy it.

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OBITUARIES Richard (Dick) A. Moyer, May 17, 1929 - Sept. 16, 2022.

Dick Moyer led a full life and was loved and respected by all who knew him. He was a great businessman, community leader, and family man. Dick was known for his kindness, fairness, humility, and clarity of thought, and was still active and involved until the end. Dick lived most of his life in Dayton, was a graduate of Fairview High School and Miami University, and moved to Florida upon his retirement. He grew up during the Depression, from which he learned the importance of community support and involvement from his parents who were instrumental in the Dayton Jewish community before him. He also was very involved in the Dayton Jewish community. He cofounded the Dorothy B. Moyer Leadership Award in memory of his mother in order to recognize outstanding young Jewish women in Dayton; he served for many years and in many capacities on the boards of Temple Israel and the Jewish Federation, including making donations of land for building the original Jewish Community Center. In business, Dick grew Moyer Mortgage Company from a one-person operation into the largest mortgage business in southwestern Ohio. He also was involved in the construction business, Terminal Cold Storage, and other ventures. His community involvement was extensive. He was active in the Dayton Jaycees, including serving as their president; he also served as the first president of Big Brothers in Dayton. In 1961, Dick received the award of Dayton’s Young Man of the Year. He was one of three Jewish members on the original Dayton board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and served on many other boards, including Camp Fire Girls, Ohio Mortgage Bankers, North Riverdale Little League, and Fairview

High School PTA. He was also involved in Rotary, both in Dayton and after retiring to Florida. In Florida, he remained active with various boards and charities.

He took up golf, and one of his personal highlights was making a hole in one. Even in his last year, while treasurer of the board at his retirement community, he identified a major fiscal error, resulting in significant savings for members of the community. Dick was also a family man who never missed one of his children's activities. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Sheila, after 45 years of marriage, and is survived by their children Diane Moyer (Colorado), Janis and Bill Dodson (Colorado), Rick and Carol Moyer (Dayton), Jim and Robin Moyer (Arizona), and Scott Moyer (Arizona); also eight grandchildren: Andrew, Ross, Jenna, Sara, Abbi, Aaron, Rachel, and Jillian. Dick is also survived by his wife, Marcia (Florida), and their very special nurse caregiver of many years, Michelle Philippe.

Donations in Dick's memory may be made to the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton or the charity of your choice.

Richard Alan "Rick" Pinsky, age 51, of Washington Township, passed away Oct. 12 at The University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Rick was employed at Kettering Medical Center, formerly employed at his familyowned Mendelson Electronics Co. He was a dedicated member of the Star Trek USS Bismarck Club, loved working with Legos, was a devoted lifelong member of Beth Abraham Synagogue, and recording secretary of Beth Abraham Men's Club. He attended Ball State University, Wright State University, and earned an associate degree in pharmacy tech from Sinclair College. Rick is survived by his beloved parents, Terry and Marlene Pinsky of Dayton; brother and sister-in-law, Howard and Michelle Pinsky of Mason; nieces, Dayna and Samantha Pinsky; and many other relatives and many friends. Interment was at

Beth Abraham Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Beth Abraham Synagogue in Rick's memory.

Maxine G. Rubin (nee Polasky), 92 years old, died peacefully on Oct. 12. Born Oct. 4, 1930, in Piqua to the late Harry and Rebecca Colp Polasky. Preceded in death by her beloved husband, Dr. Frank Rubin, her brothersin-law, Dr. Gerald Rubin and Edward Rubin, and her sister, Helen Beatrice Lisman. Maxine is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Renee Rubin Handel and Dr. Franklin Handel of Dayton; son Harlan Jamie Rubin of Fla.; four adored grandchildren, Jonathan Handel (Tova Jacobs), of Vienna, Va.; Dori Handel Herald (Jeffrey Herald) of Atlanta; Joshua Handel (Arielle) of Cincinnati; and Elyse Handel of Indianapolis; great-nephew Jeremy Darhansoff of New York; two great-granddaughters, Estelle Ray Handel and Marlowe Reese Handel; and devoted friend and companion, Mary E. Mitchell. A lifelong member of Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua and Hadassah, Maxine moved to Dayton in 1952 after meeting and marrying Frank Rubin. She devoted her life to her family and was an active volunteer in "everything" PTA, the Dayton Dental Society Auxiliary, Girl Scouts, TWIGS, Temple Israel Sisterhood, and in later years, the Dayton Art Institute. She worked for many years as the office manager of Frank's dental practice, a role she cherished. The practice was a true partnership, with Maxine as the scheduler-in-chief and the first smile most patients saw as they walked in the door. She filled her life with love, family, positivity, gratitude and a multitude of friends. Not to mention a fondness for winters in Longboat Key, Fla., mah jongg, canasta, and any and all four-legged friends, including her own little goldendoodle, Max. The family would like to thank the staff at Hospice of Ohio for the extraordinary, compassionate care which Maxine received, as well

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Marilyn Doris Serbin, Feb. 25, 1930 - Sept. 13, 2022. Marilyn Doris Serbin, nee Klarin, passed away peacefully in her adopted town of Cloverdale, Calif. surrounded by loved ones on Sept. 13.

Marilyn was 92 years old.

Marilyn grew up in Dayton, the oldest daughter of Max and Esther Klarin and big sister to Joyce Maggied. Marilyn went to Roosevelt High School, where she was described in her high school newspaper as “the girl to help you out whenever you feel blue because with her happy smile she will soon have you smiling too.”

Marilyn attended Miami University for two years but dropped out to marry Richard Alon Serbin, an aspiring physician, and her beloved husband of 53 years. They had three children and lived in their dream home on Sunnyview Avenue for 35 years. Their welcoming home became a refuge for many teenagers, far-flung family members, and many four-legged friends. There was always an open door, a full refrigerator, and most days a pot of homemade soup on the stove waiting to be shared.

Marilyn and Dick loved to travel and took trips to Israel, India, Cuba, Russia, and Paris. However, once their grandchildren were born, their favorite trips were to Alabama to visit Pat’s children, Scott and Ben Boyer, and to New Jersey to visit Nancy and her husband Bill Silverman’s children, Zak, Emmy, and Katie Silverman.

Marilyn was an extremely devoted grandmother and didn’t miss a tennis match, dance recital, soccer game, or band concert even if she had to travel great distances to get there. There are people that can travel the world but see nothing, and then there are people like Marilyn who can travel around the block and see the world. She had a “child-like” sense of wonder and joy that could turn any outing into an adventure. This love for adventure served her well when she moved across the country to California at age 85 to be closer to her son Ricky and his partner Mitchel Benjamin who treated her like a queen. Marilyn lived in California for seven years and during that time she lived in four different assisted living facilities, had to be evacuated three separate

times because of fire danger, and lived through the isolation of the pandemic. She also had many health issues and the last couple years lost most of her mobility but none of those things stopped her from enjoying her life. From her recliner she “saw the world” and loved talking about the different birds that were landing on her bird-feeders, which of the many orchids that lined her window were blooming, or what her latest Sandra Brown mystery was about.

She delighted in getting to know every new resident and every aide that worked in the home and could tell you where they were from, if they had children, and what their previous jobs had been. She loved social media and became somewhat of a “Facebook celebrity” as Ricky would post weekly pictures of her with his dogs or in a funny hat (“Serbins in turbans” she said) and she would get 300 comments about her beautiful smile each time. A couple months before she died, she was interviewed for the monthly newspaper her assisted living facility published. At the end of the interview, they asked Marilyn “what is the one thing that she would like everyone to know about her” and Marilyn responded “I want everyone to know that I am just so happy.” If happiness is a choice, and she believed it was, she made that choice every day of her life. Marilyn is survived by her sister Joyce Maggied, her children Nancy and Ricky Serbin, her sons-in-law Bill Silverman and Mitchell Benjamin, her grandchildren Scott Boyer, Ben and Dasha Boyer, Zak Silverman, Katie Silverman and Emmy Silverman, and her great-grandchildren Grace and Aleksey Boyer. The family will hold a memorial in Dayton to celebrate Marilyn in the Spring of 2023 when the flowers are in bloom. Friends are encouraged to make donations in her memory to St Jude Children’s Hospital or the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation to help find a cure for the disease that took Marilyn’s daughter Patricia Boyer.

Rabbi Sheldon Switkin, 85, passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Oct. 4, surrounded by his loved ones. He was preceded in death by his parents, Esther and Max Switkin, and sister Judyth Talmi. He is survived by his beloved wife of 55 years, Linda Switkin, cherished daughters: Marni (Dan) Nagel, Lisa Switkin (Elijah Saintonge), and Abby (Sarah) Riskin, precious grandchildren: Elia Nagel; Ari, Nava, and Miriam Riskin; Jarah and Zev Saintonge, as well as special extended family and treasured lifelong friends. Interment was at Jewish Oakridge Cemetery, Hillside, Ill. Donations may be made in his memory to Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, Shaaray Torah Synagogue in Canton, or the Ohio State Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.

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