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Temple Israel among U.S. synagogues targeted with Rosh Hashanah swatting threat

Police responded in minutes, services continued without disruption.

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By Marshall Weiss going into the Rosh The Observer Hashanah holiday to With more than be on alert for bomb 300 people praying and swatting threats, in Temple Israel’s and that although no Great Hall on the first previous case was day of Rosh Hashacredible, all threats nah, seven Dayton should be taken seripolice cruisers and a Temple Israel ously.

MetroParks cruiser JTA reported bomb threats converged to block the congre- Regional Dispatch when the at “a number of synagogues gation’s main entrance minutes threat came in. The dispatch informed Dayton Police a few across the United States” over after receiving word of a swatminutes before 11:30 a.m. Seven the two days of Rosh Hashating threat.

Jewish new year services con- cruisers were on the scene a few nah. All the cases were deemed minutes after 11:30 a.m., joining not credible, and no incidents of tinued uninterrupted with no the police cruiser already staviolence were reported during incidents through their schedtioned there for the services. the holiday weekend. uled 1 p.m. conclusion.

Shaw said law Even so, at a hand“Someone called the national enforcement told suicide hotline at 988 and reSwatting calls ful of congregations, her they traced the Rosh Hashanah serported that they were going to aim to cause swatting call to vices were evacuated commit suicide, and they were Washington, D.C. disruption and or delayed because of going to take as many Jews at “We had all the trigger a large- the threats.

Temple Israel in Dayton with cruisers blocking During Rosh Hathem,” Suzanne Shaw, Temple scale police the entrance for shanah, the swatting Israel’s executive director, told response. a while and they calls broke into public The Observer about the Sept. 16 ended up leaving view in at least half a threat. two or three cruisers here for dozen cases. In many cases, the Swatting calls aim to cause the rest of the day,” she said. threats have targeted synadisruption and trigger a largeBefore the Jewish new year, gogues that livestream their scale police response. the Anti-Defamation League services so the perpetrators can Dayton’s police, Shaw said, had already reported 49 bomb watch the response in real time. “ended up coming here in threats against synagogues in “We generally have a police force.”

13 states over the prior two cruiser at the entranceway,” Dayton Police Information months.

Shaw said of Dayton’s Temple Specialist James Rider said the Security organizations Israel. “The police go through 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline across the United States warned here, they go through the pealerted Montgomery County rimeter and everything else before services, and everything’s locked down at that point. And then we have hired security around the building. And once services start, we just have one door to come in. Everything’s armed. We’re pretty locked down for the High Holidays.”

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Tipp City Board of Education Member Anne Zakkour told The Observer Sept. 7 that she is sorry for giving the Nazi salute and saying, “Sieg Heil" to then board President Simon Patry during a work session Sept. 5.

“In hindsight, I regret having done this,” Zakkour said via email. “As I explained to you, after four years of attacks by a board member that I believe has been acting as a dictator spreading lies and division, my action was spur-of-the-moment and I’m very sorry for that. My heart is open to all religions, and it was never my intent to offend anyone of the Jewish community.”

In an unexpected move, Patry announced at the end of the Sept. 5 meeting that he was resigning from the board, effective that night, because of business and family obligations.

Zakkour had already announced she was not running for reelection. Her term expires in December.

Her apology followed denouncements from two of the remaining three board of education

members, the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton, Ohio’s regional Anti-Defamation League office, and Ohio Jewish Communities, the umbrella organization of Ohio’s eight Jewish Federations.

As seen in video of the Sept. 5 Tipp City Board of Education working meeting, Zakkour attempted to cut in while Patry was speaking.

“I’m talking, do not interrupt me, do not make any noises or else I will…I will not tolerate that.

Stop talking,” Patry told Zakkour. She then raised her hand in the Nazi salute and said, “Sieg Heil.”

“Invoking Nazism with a ‘Sieg Heil’ salute during a school board meeting, a place meant to support and guide our youth, is outrageous, offensive, and potentially dangerous,” Kelly Fishman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League based in Cleveland, told The Observer.

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In March, ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reported that Ohio experienced a 37-percent increase in reported antisemitic incidents in 2022, 107 compared to 78 in 2021. And 2021’s numbers were a 22-percent increase from the previous year.

With a population of just above 10,000 people, Tipp City is approximately 16 miles north of Dayton. The Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton is aware of 36 people in 21 Jewish households who live there.

Jewish Federation CEO Cathy Gardner described the incident as “shocking and disturbing.”

“While I do not believe this woman had antisemitic intent, her actions highlight the need for education and a deeper understanding for all,” Gardner noted in a statement. “This incident is a reminder of how damaging words and actions can be…Flippant, casual references to Hitler, the Nazi regime, or the Holocaust grossly diminish the tragedy that still affects so many. Seeing this image splashed in the news in reference to a disagreement at a board meeting desensitizes people to the terror that ensued at the command of Hitler.”

In a phone interview with The Observer the evening before her apology, Zakkour had difficulty understanding why anyone would be offended by her outburst, though she said, “I feel like crawling in a hole.”

“It came out of my mouth right there and then because I was just frustrated,” Zakkour said. “This has been building up. I think he (Patry) does have a dictator mentality. It was like the symbolic, sarcastic gesture of… submission to a board member trying to act like a dictator. That was in no way meant to be anything towards the Jewish people. If we don’t identify, even at a local level, if we don’t call out suppression and oppression, I’m not an expert at this, but isn’t that how some of this snowballed with Hitler and Nazism?”

Zakkour added she wasn’t trying to say that her situation “equates to somebody that’s (gone) through the Holocaust," and that “what the Nazis did, I’m not saying that Mr. Patry did things like that and physically harmed people.”

In a Sept. 6 interview with the Dayton Daily News, Patry denied Zakkour’s allegations that he is a bully and acts like a dictator. He also called on Zakkour to resign.

In recent years, Tipp City Board of Education meetings have become known for acrimony among its board members.

In December 2021, petitioners sought through the Miami County Common Pleas Court to have Zakkour

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and Theresa Dunaway removed from the board over what their complaint alleged was a flagrant misuse of authority and power. At the time, Zakkour was the board’s vice president and Dunaway was its president.

The court had scheduled a trial for this October, but the group that filed the complaint opted not to advance their claim.

Zakkour said the media coverage of her “Sieg Heil” incident makes her sick.

“I have been getting hate mail.

You wouldn’t believe the four-letter words I’m being called.”

Howie Beigelman, president and CEO of Ohio Jewish Communities, told The Observer that in 2023, it’s never acceptable to compare a political opponent to Hitler.

“It’s never acceptable to use a Nazi salute in debating and discussing policy or political differences. As the (Ohio) governor and legislators are putting more of a focus on Holocaust education, this is a sad reminder of why such efforts and leadership are needed.”

Two of the remaining three members of the Tipp City Board of Education have denounced Zakkour’s incident.

Amber Drum, who is now president of the Tipp City BOE, said in a media statement Sept. 6 that she was shocked by Zakkour’s lack of professionalism. She didn’t notice the incident when it happened, only afterward when she saw the video.

“At Tipp City Schools, our district motto is ‘Where Excellence is a Tradition’ and we ask those in our district to follow the 3 Pillars: ‘Be Respectful, Be Responsible, and to have Integrity.’ Those expectations were not met by Mrs. Zakkour’s actions at last night’s board meeting.”

Regarding Patry, who resigned as president and from the board Sept. 5, Drum said in the statement that she has never felt bullied by him “or been made to feel less-than by anything he has said to me.”

BOE Member Theresa Dunaway, who was out of town during the Sept.

5 meeting, declined to comment.

Tipp BOE Member Richard Mains Sr. said in an email interview that like Drum, he didn’t see the incident when it occurred.

“I, too, was offended and insulted when I saw the video replay,” Mains said. “No one should imitate Hitler.

My father fought in the U.S. Army to defeat Hitler and the Nazis. I’m sure my father is equally offended even though he is now deceased.”

The Observer reached out to Tipp City’s mayor, Mike McFarland, for an interview about the incident. He replied by email: “Regarding the unfortunate situation that occurred, the city is not involved with the school board as they are a separate organization and not under city control. The city has no comment at this time.”

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Antisemitic conspiracy theories find platform at West Chester Tea Party

By Sam Fisher, cincyjewfolk.com Cincinnati's Jewish Community Relations Council has condemned the West Chester Tea Party for hosting a speaker with antisemitic conspiracy theories and for spreading those ideas through email and social media.

On Sept. 5, the West Chester Tea Party hosted author Harald Zieger, who addressed the group for an hour. Over the course of his talk, he made several antisemitic remarks.

His full talk to the group was posted on the party’s public Vimeo account and shared in an email that included excerpts from his presentation.

“The West Chester Tea Party subsequently repeated many of these ideas in an email sent to their membership on Sept. 9,” the Cincinnati JCRC said in a statement.

The West Chester Tea Party has not responded to requests for comment.

Cincinnati's JCRC was made aware of the incident over the following weekend and after conducting a review, found a

history of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the party’s social media profiles, and made the statement condemning the group’s antisemitism.

“We were informed that the West Chester Tea Party had platformed an extreme antisemitic speaker, disseminated antisemitic content to their email list, and posted much antisemitic content (over a long space of time) on their Facebook and Gab accounts,” said Rabbi Ari Jun, director of Cincinnati's JCRC. A glance at the West Chester Tea Party’s social media and website shows numerous posts that contain antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The posts cover a range of antisemitic tropes, including: • The myth that Jews control world politics, banking, and control the media; • The great replacement theory, a White supremacist conspiracy theory that claims Jews are attempting to replace White Christians with minority groups;

The West Chester Tea Party has not responded to requests for comment.

• Blood libel, a centuries-old antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews sacrifice Christian children to use their blood in religious ceremonies; • That Jews are disloyal, a conspiracy theory that claims Jews are only loyal to other Jews Announcement of Sept. 5 event with Harald Zieger at West Chester Tea Party's website. and pushing a Jewish agenda.

Zieger was promoting his latest book. He claims on his website The Cincinnati JCRC said in its statethat he was born in East Germany and ment that Republican elected officials was a “card-carrying communist until had voiced their support for the Jewish his confrontation with community and did not condone the God and meeting his group’s behavior. wife who was raised “This isn’t about typical ‘left versus in a Christian home.” right’ politics, but about setting boundThe Tea Party aries for reasonable discourse,” Jun movement was said. “We cannot allow antisemitism to founded in 2009 spread further into the mainstream.” within the Republican Addressing antisemitism head-on is Party. It opposes the the best way to keep it from spreading, Washington political he added.

Cincinnati JCRC establishment and “We might be tempted to not draw Dir. Rabbi Ari Jun espouses conservative extra attention to this extremist group and libertarian philosophy, including (but) ignoring antisemitism will not reduced government spending, lower slow their spread or make them go taxes, and reduction of the national debt away,” Jun said. “As Louis Brandeis and the federal budget deficit. said, sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

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On Rosh Hashanah, neo-Nazi flyers dropped at Tipp City homes & in Cincinnati area

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By Marshall Weiss, The Observer One city near Dayton and five communities in the Cincinnati area were littered with neo-Nazi flyers on Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16 and 17.

In Tipp City, 16 miles north of Dayton in Miami County, “a lot more than 50” hate flyers were dropped in front of homes between 9 p.m., Sept. 16 and the afternoon of Sept. 17, Tipp City Chief of Police Greg Adkins told The Observer.

Neo-Nazi flyers were also discovered on those days across the neighborhoods of Downtown Cincinnati, Walnut Hills, East Walnut Hills, the city of Loveland, and Anderson Township.

The six different versions of the hate flyers in Tipp City all carried the name of the Aryan Freedom Network and its website. At least two of the flyers distributed in the Cincinnati area indicated they originated from the Aryan Freedom Network.

One of six versions of more than 50 Aryan Freedom Network flyers dropped in front of Cincyjewfolk.com reported that the homes in Tipp City, Sept. 16 and 17. flyers in the Cincinnati area contained neo-Nazi images along with links to conspiracy websites such as the antiseSept. 5 work session. Over the next few mitic Jew Watch. days, local media coverage and video According to the Anti-Defamation of the outburst were picked up by local League’s Center on Extremism, the media outlets across the United States, Aryan Freedom Network is a small, and ultimately landed at national and growing neo-Nazi group based in De international news media.

Kalb, Texas. It claims to have chapters “I think the climate surrounding that in 25 states, including Ohio. It directs its could have played into the fact that they hatred toward Jews, Black people, and (the flyers) were delivered (so soon) the LGBTQ + community. after that had occurred,” Adkins said, “Definitely a lot of “but we have nothing the area got hit,” Adkins According to the to say that it did or did said of Tipp City, where ADL, hate activity not.” one of his police officers Sept. 5 was also when found and collected the in southwest Ohio the West Chester Tea Parhate flyers in several has expanded in ty hosted author Harald neighborhoods.

Zieger, who made several “The people who did recent months. antisemitic remarks. The it definitely spent some incident and its video money, because they put them all in distribution led the Cincinnati Jewish Ziploc bags with gravel in the bags,” he Community Relations Council to track said. “Our belief is they drove down the and denounce the West Chester Tea street and just tossed them on the curb Party’s history of antisemitic conspiracy lawns, and that way they wouldn’t trig- theories on the party’s social media ger a ringing doorbell.” profiles.

Adkins said that in his 23 years with A rising tide of hate the force, he’s never seen hate flyers The Anti-Defamation League’s redistributed in Tipp City. He added that gional office confirmed that hate activhe had no evidence that the flyer drop ity in southwest Ohio has expanded in was timed to the Jewish new year. recent months.

Steve Shuchat, who has lived in Tipp “These types of activities are increasCity for 23 years, also said he has never ingly being deployed by antisemites seen hate flyers in Tipp City, though he and White supremacists to sow hatred did recall antisemitic flyers that were and attempt to intimidate our commudistributed in western Miami County nities,” ADL Regional Director Kelly about five years ago.

Fishman said.

Four years ago, Tipp City was the site The flyers hit Tipp City 11 days after of three incidents of hate vandalism, Tipp City Board of Education Member when swastikas were found sprayAnne Zakkour sarcastically gave the painted on two sidewalks along Plum Nazi salute and said "Sieg Heil" to then Street and on a CSX railroad electric board President Simon Patry during a box. One included the phrase “White

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Shuchat is president of Temple Anshe Emeth in Piqua ― also in Miami County ― where his family goes back generations. He didn’t receive a flyer at his home but has reviewed the flyers Tipp police collected.

“It’s very disturbing that anyone is targeting Tipp City with this kind of horrible information,” he said. “I don’t think this is specifically someone who is living in Tipp distributing this to Tipp homes.”

Also on Rosh Hashanah, on Sept.

16, seven Dayton police cruisers and a MetroParks cruiser converged to block Temple Israel’s main entrance minutes after receiving word of a swatting threat. More than 300 people were praying in Temple Israel at the time.

In August, the Washington Township neighborhood of Brittany Hills/Wood-

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bourne south of Dayton was also hit with White supremacist flyers.

Even if perpetrators of such flyer drops are found, Adkins said, the only charge that might apply would be littering. The message on the flyers, he said, is protected as free speech.

“Whether it was legal or criminal, the flyers that have been distributed demonstrate how important it is that individuals and our community voice our disgust and state that this is not welcome in our community,” said Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton CEO Cathy Gardner.

“Speaking out in public will raise the communal voice that the ideology behind the flyer is hateful – plain and simple. Speaking out is the action of an upstander and not a bystander.”

Sam Fisher of cincyjewfolk.com contributed to this story.

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Closer to home, Irvin and his wife, Gayle, visit their parents and his grandparents at Beth Jacob’s cemetery in Dayton. They contributed to the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Dayton campaign to “guarantee that we can take care of the people who took care of us.”

As a Kohen, Irvin kept clear of cemeteries for a long time. “I’ve made peace with the ways in which I could get close to the people that mean the most to me,” he said. “I figured out a way not to trample on my heritage but to fulfill my need to be respectful and honor my family. When I walk through a well-kept cemetery, I get a feeling that I’m actually close to someone who’s no longer here. I’ll put a stone on the headstone to let them know I’m there. It always brings back a lot of warm memories.”

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Beth Abraham Synagogue's Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, his wife, Elyssa Wortzman, and their daughter, Tal, in a niggun circle led

by Joey Weisenberg (L) during the rabbi's installation weekend in August.

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer isn't sure what will come out of the niggun circles he's introducing to Beth Abraham Synagogue, and that's what makes it exciting.

"Once we get into the rhythm of this, there will be gifts that just emerge from the synergy of the circle," he says. "We're going to discover it together."

A niggun is a wordless, mystical prayer melody, based in the Chasidic traditions of Eastern Europe.

The power of the niggun, the rabbi says, is its ability "to be more inclusive, to reach people, to bring spiritual experiences to anyone and everyone."

Glazer borrows a term from song leader Joey Weisenberg, who led Beth Abraham's first niggun circles over the weekend of the rabbi's installation at the Conservative synagogue in August.

"He speaks about it as building singing communities. There's something about the infrastructure of building vibrant, authentic communities that can happen through sounds and resonances and especially melodies without words that bring us to a deeper place of connection that Chasidism understood at its core. It's something old, and it's something new."

Weisenberg is the founder and director of Hadar's Rising Song Institute, an incubator for musicians and prayer leaders who seek to reinvent Jewish spiritual music.

Beginning Oct. 14 and continuing the second Saturday of each month, Glazer will lead a niggun circle at 12:30 p.m., following kiddush lunch after Shabbat services.

The monthly niggun circle with meditations, he

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"We're going to have a niggun for the month and it will also be related to a phrase from the Torah. I see these circles as labs or incubation spaces. We're going to see what emerges from it. And then it's inevitable that there's going to be spillover: people will be singing differently, they'll be sitting differently."

Niggun circles organically lead some participants and facilitators to create their own niggunim in the process.

"That's the basis of a lot of what Joey was doing."

Glazer's goal is to expose his congregants and Dayton's Jewish community to a way of building community that isn't prevalent here.

"Joey's been training a lot of prayer leaders to follow this methodology of building singing communities. And that's what I really wanted to bring to Beth Abraham."

Glazer also brings his passion for various kinds of community building through Chasidism's multiple forms. Most Jews, he says, are unaware there are 37 different kinds of Chasidism.

One kind that captures the rabbi's soul forcefully is what he calls "Tiberian Chasidism."

His passion to learn about this little-known community has led him

to co-translate and co-edit with scholar Nehemia Polen two volumes of a book series on the subject — From Tiberias, With Love — with four more volumes on the way.

Beginning in the late 1770s, Rabbi Abraham haCohen of Kalisk and Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk led a short-lived Chasidic community in Tiberias that had arrived from Eastern Europe.

"It was different from the Chasidism of Eastern Europe," Glazer says. "It was a model that was more horizontal. The Vitebsker and Kalisker Rebbes co-led it together at the same time. They wanted to ensure that the newness, the freshness, the dynamism of what the Baal Shem Tov revealed wasn't becoming ossified and lost in these structures."

The Kalisker Rebbe defined what its adherents strove for as dybbuk chaverim, Glazer says, "to be deeply connected and immersed in this absorbing experience that we can call the infinite God." He says the group was concerned with "what happens when you don't have those very high moments that get you into a place where you were totally absorbed in the oneness of being. And so they said, when you feel like you've gone down a few steps, when you're off Continued on Page 23

Niggun circles organically lead some participants to create their own niggunim in the process.

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Chasidic niggunim and study with Beth Abraham Synagogue's Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 937-293-9520 Virtual Lunch & Learn, Mondays, noon-12:45 p.m. beginning Oct. 2. Who's Afraid of Chasidism & Why Does it Still Matter? Journeying Through the Foundations of Chasidism Today. Registration required at bethabrahamdayton.org.

Niggun Circle Monthly Meditations, Second Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. (after kiddush lunch), beginning Oct. 14.

Tiberian Niggun Circle, Monday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Clergy-musicians share discoveries from their Tiberian Chasidism workshop.

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Ukraine: 1941 and 2023 A personal reflection

By Jim Nathanson I was standing in what looked to be a pleasant city park. Though it was August, a light breeze made for a comfortable day, but I felt anything but comfortable as I stood and just stared at the ground. It looked so very ordinary, but it was anything but ordinary.

There once had been a deep ravine here; it had been filled, the ground leveled, as if altering the landscape could change what happened here. Nothing could. Eighty-two years ago, in September 1941, nearly 33,800 Jews were butchered at this site. The ravine was Babyn Yar — located in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.

I was in Ukraine for five days, in the midst of its war with Russia, for no other reason than to the show my support for the Ukrainian people in their battle against Putin’s naked aggression.

But I couldn’t go to Ukraine without stopping at Babyn Yar. Not only was it the sight of one of the most horrific episodes of the Holocaust, but during the Shoah, few people anywhere collaborated more with the Nazis than did the Ukrainians, and few areas saw their Jewish population so thoroughly decimated, with a prewar population of 2.7 million, 60% of which were killed by war’s end.

Reconciliation through scholar's thesis

In my support for the Ukraine of today, I needed to make peace with the memory of the tens of thousands of my fellow Jews who died in the Ukraine of yesterday.

Helping me with this reconciliation is an especially insightful book by Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. A native Daytonian, Snyder is a history professor at Yale University.

Snyder’s core thesis is that “minority populations depend most on the protection of the state, and upon the rule of law, and it is they who suffer most from anarchy and war.”

The Nazis soon learned that the first step in ridding the world of Jews was to destroy the states in which they lived, to turn Jews into stateless people no longer under the protection of any legal authority.

The Holocaust was the most brutal, Snyder argues, in areas such as western Ukraine where political authority was Jim Nathanson, a Dayton-based political and public affairs consultant for 30 years, was political director of the Republican National Committee in 1992 and had previously taught political science at colleges in New York and Ohio.

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decimated by the back and forth of Russian and German occupations, each of which set out through sheer brutality to dismantle local political structures — in the case of the Russians, to build a new society, and in the case of the Germans, to create stateless regions that could be ‘colonized’ for the benefit of the Reich.

The degree of state destruction and the obliteration of the rule of law determined the extent local populations joined in the killing of Jews — not the ethnicity of the killers.

This distinction made no difference to the millions of Jews who were murdered, nor does it expunge the culpability of those who did the killing, but it should make a difference in how we view the descendants of their murderers today.

Nationalist heroes with the stench of history

Nonetheless, many of Ukraine’s current allies do question their continued honoring of nationalist leaders who fanned antisemitic sentiment and often sided with the Nazis — committing numerous atrocities against Jews and others they viewed as sympathetic to the Soviets.

Just this January, for example, the Ukrainian parliament commemorated the birth of Stepan Bandera, who was the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the coalition that led the battle for Ukrainian independence but that also often collaborated with the Nazis.

In April 1941, for example, the OUN declared that Jews were the foremost enemy of Ukraine and that “OUN combats the Jews as a prop of the Muscovite-Bolshevik regime.”

Yad Vashem notes that months before Babyn Yar, Ukrainian nationalists were directly responsible for the deaths of at least 6,000 Jews.

Today’s obsessive political correctness would have us judge all historic figures by today’s standards with little or no recognition of the historical context within which these individuals lived and left their mark on history.

But those of us who question this obsessiveness recognize that our heroes often not only had feet of clay but sometimes the stench of history clings to their memory.

The Ukrainian people should be allowed their nationalist heroes however intense that stench might be.

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We Americans, after all, haven’t stopped purchasing Ford automobiles just because Henry Ford was one of the most outrageous American antisemites of the early 20th century. We haven’t stopped listening to Richard Wagner‘s music just because he was one of the most outrageous antisemites of the 19th century. And we haven’t torn down the monuments to Charles Lindbergh just because he was our nation’s foremost fascist sympathizer up until Dec. 7, 1941.

It's also worth noting that no place in Europe has a longer history of a Jewish presence than Ukraine. There is even evidence that Jews were living in Greek settlements in the Crimea as early as the fourth century B.C.E. and much of modern-day Ukraine east of the Dnipro River was part of the Khazarian Empire, whose nobility and many of its citizens adopted Judaism around 800 C.E. Though Khazaria largely disappeared by the mid-10th century, there are records of Khazarian Jews in the vicinity of present-day Ukraine as late as the 12th century.

My hotel in Kyiv was located in the Podil, one of city’s oldest sections, now a bustling entertainment district even as the war rages.

A thriving Ashkenazi community existed there as early as the 11th century.

Even today, the Podil is home to two early and important choral synagogues.

A short walk from my hotel was the Rozenberg or Podil Synagogue, a superb Moorish-style building completed in 1895.

Not too far way is another late 19thcentury choral synagogue, the Brodsky

In my support for the Ukraine of today, I needed to make peace with the memory of the tens of thousands of my fellow Jews who died in the Ukraine of yesterday.

Synagogue, built more in Romanesque Revival style, that boasts both a kosher market and kosher restaurant.

As I walked through both synagogues, two of seven found in Kyiv, I marveled at the endurance of the local Jewish community.

'Over a thousand years of friendship'

Henry Abramson, a Touro University historian and an expert on UkrainianJewish history, notes that the intermittent periods of violence against Jews "doesn’t negate over a thousand years of friendship."

He further notes a long history of cultural interchange that wouldn’t have occurred unless Jews and Ukrainians were interacting on friendly terms for most of their shared history, or as he puts it “unless Ukrainian and Jewish children were spending time in each other’s kitchens.”

A Pew Research poll published in March 2018 found that Ukrainians are far more likely to welcome Jews as fellow citizens than the populations of any other Eastern European nation.

Only 5% of Ukrainians would not accept Jews as fellow citizens, compared, for example, to 23% of Lithuanians, 22% of Romanians, 18% of Poles, and 14% of Russians.

Nothing, of course, speaks more about the Ukraine of today than the fact that its current president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a Jew. Elected in 2019 on an anti-corruption platform with over 70% of the vote (and after playing a Ukrainian president in a TV comedy), this improbable politician has evolved into a charismatic wartime leader who has kept his nation and its allies united.

His religion has never been an issue, and even his political spat with the popular mayor of Kyiv has had no religious overtones.

Only Putin has tried to make an issue Continued on Page 22

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UPCOMING EVENTS WEDNESDAYS, 12:30 - 3:30PM Open Canasta THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6PM Cultural Arts & Book Series Opening Night Karen Fine and Animal Services Resource Fair SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2 -3:30PM Let's put the "J" in LGBTQ+!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2:30PM Cultural Arts & Book Series — Martin Fletcher TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 9AM - 1PM Medicare Check Up Day Connect with us! Check out our events. For more information, check out our calendar at jewishdayton.org.

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Please join us for a once in a lifetime trip to Europe! We will experience the modern revival of Judaism in Hungary, explore the history of Jewish artifacts in Prague, and participate in the celebration of the Torah scroll reclamation project in London. Additional highlights include an architectural tour of Budapest, a nighttime cruise on the Danube River, visits to beautifully restored synagogues, and time to explore favorite spots in London.

January 28 - February 5, 2024 Cost: $2,450 per person Cost includes hotel accommodations (double occupancy, $300 additional for single occupancy) and most meals. Does not include airfare.

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Let’s Put the “J”

Sunday, October 22 2 - 3:30PM The Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education (525 Versailles Dr., 45459) No cost. RSVP by Monday, October 16.

Let’s put the “J” (Jewish) in LGBTQ+! Are you or your family a member of the LGBTQ+ community and looking to connect with others within the Jewish community? Join us for an afternoon of connecting with friends old and new, noshing, and doing something good for the community. We will be making cards of encouragement, empowerment and support for those David’s Place serves!

Donations of new winterwear (hats, scarves, gloves, mittens) for David’s Place is your admission!

Jewish Family Services OF GREATER DAYTON

Let's do a KNITZVAH Calling all our crafty community members…Let’s do a KNITZVAH! The KNITZVAH is already underway! Monday, October 2 to Wednesday, November 22, JFS will welcome your hand-knitted, crocheted, or sewn donations of hats, scarves, lap blankets, socks, or gloves to help make our Chanukah outreach extra special (and fuzzy).

For questions or to schedule a drop-off, please contact Jacquelyn Archie at jarchie@jfgd.net or 937-610-1555.

MEDICARE CHECK UP DAYS Learn ways to: Stay Informed.

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Tuesday, October 31, 9AM – 1PM Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education (525 Versailles Dr., 45459) By appointment only.

Free Medicare Check Up Day with the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program (OSHIIP) in partnership with Jewish Family Services at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education. Schedule an appointment by calling 937-610-1555.

Medicare counselors from the Ohio Department of Insurance will be on hand to sit down with you individually.

The Annual Medicare Enrollment Period is October 15 – December 7. Get tips on how to enroll for 2024 coverage in a Medicare prescription drug plan (Part D) and/or a Medicare health plan. Can’t make it to the Boonshoft CJCE on October 31?

See the ad on page 18 for information about all the Medicare Check Up Days in Montgomery County.

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Adventures in Parenting

A special Cultural Arts & Book Series event

SPECIAL FEATURE: Animal Services Resource Fair @ 6PM

Sunday, November 5 @ 7PM The Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education (525 Versailles Drive, Centerville), No Cost

Thursday, October 19 @ 7PM The Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education (525 Versailles Drive, Centerville) Cost: $5 + Pet food, cat litter, or animal treats for donation

Community moderators will lead small group conversations on topics on every parent’s mind, including getting involved in Jewish Dayton, Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah planning, bringing Shabbat into your home, managing stress, ways to approach difficult conversations, and an introduction to the Wendy Mogel books The Blessing of a Skinned Knee — Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children and The Blessing of a B Minus — Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers.

Karen Fine

The Other Family Doctor — A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality Beyond Pets • The Other Family Doctor is a heartwarming memoir about one woman’s career as a vet and the unique roles that pets play in our lives. Woven into Dr. Fine’s story are the stories of her own pets who have taught her the most valuable lessons — how caring for the animals in our lives can teach us to better care for ourselves. Don’t Miss: 6PM Live Animal Resources Fair!

No charge. Attendees will leave with a copy of each book!

To register, visit jewishdayton.org/events.

Questions? Contact Kate Elder at kelder@jfgd.net.

Participating organizations include: SICSA Animal Adoption Center, Humane Society of Greater Dayton, The Tenth Life, Sophie’s Companions for Veterans, Montgomery County Canine Unit, Ohio Labrador Retriever Rescue Services, Wagmor Service Dogs, and Dayton Dog Training Club

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Sunday October 29 @ 2:30 PM In partnership with the University of Dayton Department of Communication University of Dayton – Science Center 114 (300 College Park Avenue, Dayton) Free parking in Lot B – off of Stewart Street Cost: $7 (No cost to students with student ID) Book signing and author presentation Martin Fletcher Teachers — The Ones I Can’t Forget Ordinary People, Extraordinary Circumstances • During his 40 years as a foreign news correspondent, Martin Fletcher met thousands of people at the extremes — war, revolution, natural disasters, and life.

In Teachers, he reflects on some of his most memorable encounters with single individuals — through narrative and photos — and the lessons he learned from each.

AUDITIONS Sunday, October 15 beginning at 2PM & Wednesday, October 18 beginning at 6PM At The Boonshoft CJCE (525 Versailles Dr., Centerville, 45459)

To purchase tickets for in-person events or to register for free events, please visit jewishdayton.org/events or call 937-610-1555

Audition for this year's musical — Tuck Everlasting!

Participants are asked to prepare a one-minute segment of a Broadway song. Please wear comfortable clothes as we will also be teaching a basic dance as part of the audition. Everyone who auditions will be cast in the show.

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JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DAYTON ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of David London Donna and Marshall Weiss Wishing Helen Halcomb a quick recovery Cathy Gardner CAROL J. PAVLOFSKY LEADERSHIP FUND In honor of Elaine Bettman’s birthday David and Marlene Miller

CAROLE RABINOWITZ CAMP FUND In memory of Robert Vigder In memory of Joyce Abromowitz Bernard Rabinowitz In honor of Cathy Gardner and all her good work Phil and Louisa Dreety JFS

ISRAEL SUPPORT FUND In memory of David London Mary and Gary Youra

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES In honor of Linda Kahn’s induction into the Dayton Business Hall of Fame In honor of Debbie Feldman’s induction into the Dayton Business Hall of Fame In honor of Sandy Mendelson’s posthumous induction into the Dayton Business Hall of Fame Susan and Jonas Gruenberg

HOLOCAUST PROGRAMMING FUND In memory of David London Helene Gordon JOE BETTMAN MEMORIAL TZADIK AWARD In honor of Elaine Bettman’s special birthday Rita Solko In memory of David London Jean and Todd Bettman In honor of Cathy Gardner’s Humanitarian Award from NCCJ Judy Schwartzman and Mike Jaffe

ROBERT L. AND RITA Z. CLINE BIKUR HAVERIM FUND In honor of Joan and Peter Wells’ 55th anniversary Meredith A. Cline

Down on the Farm!

As we celebrate the start of a new year, we look forward to continuing to strengthen our community through the LIFE & LEGACY program. If you are interested in learning more about leaving your legacy, contact Janese R. Sweeny at jsweeny@jfgd.net or 937-401-1542.

Sunday, October 22 5:30-8:30PM at Lucas Brothers Farm (3229 Ferry Rd., Bellbrook 45305) Camp Shalom and PJ Library families are invited for an evening of fall fun including hayrides, corn mazes, campfires, s’mores, and more! No cost.

RSVP by October 18 at jewishdayton.org.

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CALENDAR Classes

Beth Abraham: Mondays, noon: Virtual Lunch & Learns beg. Oct. 2: Who’s Afraid of Chasidism & Why Does it Still Matter? Preregistration required. Sat., Oct. 21, 28, 12:30 p.m.: Pilgrimage Through Psalms. 937-293-9520. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

Beth Jacob Classes on Zoom: w. Rabbi Agar. Tuesdays, 7 p.m.: Torah Tuesdays.

Thursdays, 7 p.m.: Thursdays of Thought. 937-274-2149.

Chabad Classes: Tuesdays, 8 p.m.: Code of Jewish Law. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Talmud. Thursdays, noon: Parsha. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. chabaddayton.com.

p.m.: My Favorite Midrashim w.

Rabbi Emeritus Sofian. Wed., Oct. 4, 10 a.m.: Social Justice Commentary w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz at home of Cathy Lieberman. Weds., Oct. 11, 18, 25, 10 a.m.: Torah Queeries w.

Rabbi Bodney-Halasz at home of Cathy Lieberman. Thurs., Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m.: Living w.

Ambiguous Loss. Fri., Oct. 13, 11 a.m.: Living w. Loss w.

Rabbi Bodney-Halasz, RSVPs requested. Sat., Oct. 7, 21, 28, 9:15 a.m.: Virtual Torah Study.

Sat., Oct. 14, 9:15 a.m.: Hybrid Torah Study. 937-496-0500.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

Synagogue Forum Intro. to Judaism Course: Tues., Oct. 24-March, 7 p.m. $36.

In person & Zoom. Register at jewishdayton.org/events.

Temple Beth Or Classes: Sundays, 12:30 p.m.: Adult Hebrew. Thurs., Oct. 12, 7 p.m.: Chai Mitzvah on Zoom.

5275 Marshall Rd., Centerville.

937-435-3400.

Adults

Temple Israel Classes: Sundays, noon: Israel-4 Hatikvah Questions w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz, $20. Tues., Oct. 3, 10, 24, 31, noon: Talmud hybrid.

Tues., Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31, 5:30

Temple Israel's A Rabbi Walks into a Bar: Thurs., Oct. 26, 6 p.m. 1st round on Temple Israel. w. Rabbi BodneyHalasz. Loose Ends Brewing,

Temple Beth Or Exploration of the Jewish Short Story: Wed., Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Via Zoom. templebethor.com, 937435-3400.

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890 S. Main St., Centerville.

Women

Chabad Annual Ladies Shabbat Dinner: Fri., Oct. 20, 6 p.m. $36. chabaddayton.com.

2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

Men

Chabad Men’s Night Out in the Sukkah: Wed., Oct. 4, 6:15 p.m. $64. chabaddayton. com. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

Family

Temple Israel Prayer & Play: Sat., Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m.

Contact Rabbi Sobo at 937496-0050. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

PJ Library Down on the Farm: Sun., Oct. 22, 5:30 p.m. Free. RSVP by Oct. 18 at jewishdayton.org/events. Lucas Brothers Farm, 3229 Ferry Rd., Bellbrook.

Children & Teens

JCC Children’s Youth Theatre Auditions: Sun., Oct. 15, 2 p.m. & Wed., Oct. 18, 6 p.m. Grades 3-12. For info., registration, jewishdayton.org/ events. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. 937610-1555.

Seniors

JFS Medicare Check Up Day: Tues., Oct. 31, 9 a.m. Free.

By appointment only. 937-6101555. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville.

Sukkot

Beth Jacob Cookie Decorating in the Sukkah: Sun., Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. 937-274-2149.

7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. Chabad Community Sukkot Party & CKids Club: Tues., Oct. 3, 5:30 p.m. $15 adults, $5 children. chabaddayton. com. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

Simchat Torah

Temple Israel Simchat Torah Services, Dinner & Kindergarten Consecration: Sat., Oct. 7, 6 p.m. Free. Contact Rabbi Sobo, 937-496-0050.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

Simchat Torah at Chabad: Sat., Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Buffet dinner w. kid-friendly menu. chabaddayton.com.

2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood.

Beth Abraham Simchat Torah Celebration: Sun., Oct. 8, 9:30 a.m. Free. Build your own

ice cream sundae following service. 937-293-9520. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

JCC Cultural Arts & Book Series See schedule, Page 13.

Community

Beth Abraham Rick Pinsky Brunch Series: Sundays, 10 a.m. $7. Oct. 15: Rabbi Glazer, The Nearer Your Destination, the More You Keep Slip Sliding Away. Oct. 22: Joel Shapiro, Origins of Christianity. Oct. 29: Earlham College Jewish Studies Chair Elliot Ratzman, Is Jewish Pacifism Possible?

RSVP to 937-293-9520. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

JFS' Let’s put the “J” in LGBTQ+: Sun., Oct. 22, 2 p.m.

Free. RSVP at jewishdayton. org/events. Contact Jacquelyn Archie for info., 937-610-1555.

Tiberian Niggun Circle: Mon., Oct. 23, 7 p.m: Beth Abraham Synagogue, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood.

Temple Israel Soul-Warming Drinks and S’mores: Wed., Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. Free. 937496-0050. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

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Join Rav Aubrey for spiritual study & song in the New Year Tiberian Niggun Circle • Monday, Oct. 23, 7-8 p.m.

With internationally renowned clergy-musicians sharing discoveries from their Tiberian Hasidism workshop: Rabbi Neil Blumofe (Texas), Rabbi Marcus Rubenstein (Minnesota), Rabbi Cantor Hillary Chorney (California), Rabbi Yosef Goldman (Maryland). Limited seating.

Register at bethabrahamdayton.org.

Beth Abraham's Cantor Andrea Raizen sounds the shofar for residents at One Lincoln Park as part of Jewish Family Services' Jewish new year celebration there. (L to R): Bob Kahn, Jerry Krochmal, Stanley and Connie Blum, Dr. Mort Levine, and Clara Hochstein.

Right: It was a Barbie theme for this year's Temple Beth Or family Rosh Hashanah service. Here, Marc, Carrie, and Olivia Siegel think inside the box.

Rabbis Judy Chessin and Ben Azriel connected the movie's values to Jewish values. Barbie director and cowriter Greta Gerwig said of her movie, 'Things can be both/and. I'm doing the thing and subverting the thing.'

Temple Beth Or

Below: At Hillel Academy's Afterschool Coding Club, Adi Atzmon works with Ozobots, small robots that introduce children to coding.

Hillel Academy

Niggun Circle: Monthly Meditations 2nd Saturday, 12:30 p.m. (after kiddush lunch), beginning Oct. 14 Niggun circle — interactive spiritual singing of wordless melodies — along with meditations through contemplative study.

Pilgrimage Through Psalms 1st, 3rd, 4th Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. (after kiddush lunch), resuming Oct. 21 Contemplative study of contemporary & ancient Psalms.

Virtual Lunch & Learn Mondays, Noon-12:45 p.m., beginning Oct. 2 Who's Afraid of Hasidism & Why Does it Still Matter?

Journeying through the foundations of Hasidism today.

Registration required at bethabrahamdayton.org.

JCC

Simchat Torah Celebration!

Sunday, Oct. 8, 9:30 a.m.

Dancing & singing with the Torahs followed by Ice Cream Sundae Bar. 305 Sugar Camp Circle Dayton, Ohio 45409 937•293•9520 www.bethabrahamdayton.org PAGE 16

Ready to dig into Rosh Hashanah gift bag treats in Ms. Julie's K-Club with the JCC's Early Childhood are (L to R) Audrey Jones, Wynn Thornton, Jacob Vance, and Kate Shatzkin.

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RELIGION

CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue

Conservative Rabbi Aubrey L. Glazer Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Fridays, 5 p.m.

Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.

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

Beth Jacob Congregation

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

7020 N. Main St., Dayton.

937-274-2149. bethjacobcong.org

Temple Anshe Emeth

Reform Rabbinic Intern Gretchen Johnson Fri., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m.

320 Caldwell St., Piqua.

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

Temple Beth Or

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

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

Temple Beth Sholom

Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz 610 Gladys Dr., Middletown.

513-422-8313. templebethsholom.net

Temple Israel

Reform Senior Rabbi Karen BodneyHalasz. Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo Fri., Oct. 6, 6 p.m.

Fridays, Oct. 20 & 27, 6:30 p.m.

Sat., Oct. 14, 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.

How much should we depend on a tool that could become the master?

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom, Middletown Give me a topic and ask me to write an article or teach a course, and I will have no trouble. I enjoy doing the research and will happily share what I have learned and add my own thoughts and opinions.

However, ask me to write an article on anything I wish to convey...and I am stumped.

So, I did something I never thought I would ever do.

I asked Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot to write an appropriate article of approximately 750 words for the October edition of The Dayton Jewish Observer.

Perspectives Within moments, I had before me an article of 788 words, which detailed the holidays of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot. The article even referenced several congregations in the Dayton area for services and programs.

It was interesting, but it wasn’t me. In addition, by the time this article is being read, the first two holidays will be over for this year.

However, the experience had me concerned.

Recently, I was having breakfast with a group of friends, and we were discussing AI and the powers we are giving to computers.

These programs are slowly learning from us and, what are currently useful research tools, can easily become something much greater, and possibly something dangerous.

We debated whose jobs were at risk of being taken over and I stated, rather smugly, that as a rabbi, my job needs a human touch. Now, I am not so sure.

It was very easy – perhaps too easy — to have my computer write for me.

My first thoughts were with regard to the matter of ethics: Is it ethical to use an article or a sermon written by my computer?

According to Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot, my “AI-powered copilot for the web,” the matter of ethics depends on the purpose and context of the article.

I was given a short list of

some possible ethical issues, with a clean slate, perhaps this which included plagiarism, is a good time to question how misinformation, and privacy. much we want to depend on It occurred to me that in AI. Judaism, when discussing sinat Are we capable of using this chinam, or baseless hatred, an technology as a tool and not example often used is quoting allow it to go any further? something and not giving the In an article by Rabbi original author credit.

Yitzchak Zweig from April When I was looking for a 23 found at Aish.com, it says specific story for one of my “…humans have long been High Holiday sermons, I had aware of the possibility of this asked Microsoft's coming to pass, and Bing AI chatbot and one would hope that was given a similar measures are being story, but it had a diftaken to safeguard ferent ending. humanity. HollyWhen I asked who wood has been warnwrote that story, the ing us of the dangers computer program of this technology for answered, "I did," over 50 years (2001: almost proudly, if A Space Odyssey that is possible. I springs to mind and, realized then that Rabbi Haviva Horvitz of course, there are plagiarism is going to many others like The be a concern.

Matrix and I, Robot).”

Next, my focus turned to the His article raises concerns recent writers’ strike. Again, I about an AI-run world where conferred with Microsoft's Bing decisions and actions are based AI chatbot and was informed on data analysis. The human that the “cause of the writers’ touch would be lost. Rabbi strike is a lack of agreement Zweig continues: “This is simion a new contract between the lar to the difference between Writers Guild of America and living in a world created by the Alliance of Motion Picture accident vs. living in a theoand Television centric universe; a divinely creProducers.” ated world that has intelligent Three main isdesign and is purpose driven. sues in the strike One of the main features of were listed, includliving in a world created by ing the use of artiGod is that life has sanctity and ficial intelligence in innate value. Most importantly, the writing process. and a primary tenet of Jewish Like me, the writers philosophy, is the core belief are concerned that that God created the world this wonderful tool might one with the sole purpose of benday replace them; and that one efiting mankind and that the day seems to be getting closer Almighty seeks a relationship and closer. with man.”

As Rabbi Dan Wolpe So, does AI help our relaposted on his Facebook page tionship with the Almighty or recently, “The irony of the get in the way? Can AI make OpenAI ChatGPT is that it will the mundane holy, as we try to ultimately destroy the very do, or is it too robotic? intelligence and creativity that In the meantime, I wrote this enable it to be created.” article myself, and am happy As we have concluded the with myself for doing that, High Holiday season for 5784 even if it is a little too long and and have begun the new year not perfect. Shanah Tovah!

Can AI make the mundane holy, as we try to do, or is it too robotic?

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Holocaust-themed student art at DAI

Altruism

by Noah Levinson

Through Nov. 12, 20 student artworks from the 2023 Max May & Lydia May Holocaust Art & Writing Contest are on exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute. The annual contest for area students in grades five through 12 is named after the grandparents of Dayton Holocaust Resource Center Director Renate Frydman.

October

Tishri/Cheshvan Candle Lightings Shabbat, Erev Sukkot Sept. 29: 7:05 p.m.

First Eve Sukkot Sept. 30: 8:01 p.m.

Shabbat, Erev Shemini Atzeret Oct. 6: 6:53 p.m.

Erev Simchat Torah Oct. 7: 7:50 p.m.

Shabbat, Oct. 13: 6:43 p.m.

Shabbat, Oct. 20: 6:32 p.m.

Shabbat, Oct. 27: 6:23 p.m.

Torah Portions Oct. 14, Bereshit (Gen. 1:1-6:8) Oct. 21, Noach (Gen. 6:9-11:32) Oct. 28, Lech Lecha (Gen. 12:1-17:27)

Sukkot

Festival of Booths

Sept. 30-Oct. 6 15-21 Tishri Named after the huts the Jews lived in while wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. Marked by building sukkot to eat meals in during the festival, and in the synagogue by processions with the lulav (palm branches with myrtle and willow) and etrog (citron fruit).

Shemini Atzeret

Eighth Day of Assembly

Oct. 7/22 Tishri Historically, it allowed an extra day in Jerusalem for Jewish pilgrims on their journey to the Temple.

Tefillat Geshem (the prayer for rain), Hallel (Psalms of thanksgiving and joy), and Yizkor (memorial prayers) are recited.

Simchat Torah

Rejoicing of the Torah

Oct. 8/23 Tishri Annual cycle of reading the Torah is concluded and a new cycle begun. Celebrated in the synagogue with singing, dancing, and Torah processionals.

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MAZEL TOV! Renee and Frank Handel have joyfully welcomed the births of two granddaughters. Josh and Arielle Handel of Cincinnati welcomed daughter Emmy Blake on Feb. 27.

Emmy joins big sister, Marlowe, 3.

Maternal grandparents are Jonathan and Shari Mann of Cincinnati. Dori and Jeff Herald welcomed the arrival of Maren Ava on April 14. Paternal grandparents are Kathy and Bill Herald of Atlanta. Both girls were named for their great-grandmother, Maxine Rubin, of blessed memory.

Dayton Children’s has presented Dr. Michael Albert with its Wallace B. Taggart Award, its highest physician honor.

Mike has led the orthopedic department at Dayton Children's for nearly all of his 34-year career. He arrived there during his Dr. Michael Albert first rotation studying at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Mike has created cutting-edge, minimally invasive surgery procedures

Dayton BBYO teens joined more than 100 from the region at Kings Island for the BBYO-KIO regional kickoff (L to R): Noah Baumgarten, Eli and Brody Dowlar, Cay Becker, JCC Exec. Dir. Marc Jacob, Alli Becker, Avi and Chava Gilbert, Bri Becker, Sam Jacob.

that have greatly improved the efficiency of spinal surgeries for young patients.

Amy and Marshall Lachman are now the proud owners of Bill's Donuts in Centerville.

Matt Arnovitz received the Miami Valley School's Distinguished Alumnus Award at the MVS annual alumni awards dinner.

Melanie Barrett, CEO of Bailey Bug, competed on Season 11 of Amazon Prime's The Blox, a competition program for startups. Based in Springfield, Bailey Bug manufactures capes for wheelchair users. The capes, which wrap around the front, are produced by people with disabilities through Vocational Guidance Services in Columbus. Season 11 of The Blox is scheduled for release in a few months.

Taking Israel: A Journey of African American Students, a Marvin Olinsky will be inducted 2015 documentary prointo the Dayton Region Walk duced by retired Wilberof Fame at its Oct. 11 luncheon force University Vice Presiat Sinclair Community College. dent of Development Eric The retired CEO of Five Rivers V.A. Winston and directed MetroParks, Marv was a driving

by Vincent Singleton, was force behind Adventure Censhown on Maryland Public tral, which has served Dayton's Television in September in youths for nearly two decades. conjunction with the staThe Walk of Fame is on West tion's annual Historically Third Street between Shannon Melanie Barrett Black Colleges and Uniand Broadway Streets in the versities Week and is now Wright-Dunbar Business District. streaming via MPT for two years. In Taking Israel, Wilberforce alumni return Meryl Hattenbach has joined Hillel Academy as its administrative assistant. to Israel and recall summers of work, She's also responsible for recruiting new teaching, and study there. Between 1988 and 2002, 150 Wilberforce students families to the Jewish day school. completed their summer co-ops in Lake Miller, education director with the Israel with Winston's guidance.

National Conference for Community Send your Mazel Tov announcements to & Justice of Greater Dayton, is now an mweiss@jfgd.net.

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Simchat Torah & Sushi Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’!

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Sunday, October 8th in Levin Hall 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

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FOOD

Sukkot makes me dream of a beef tagine with quinces

By Rob Eshman, forward.com When I see the pomegranates turn ripe on our tree and the quinces appear at the farmers market, I know it’s time to start planning menus for Sukkot.

Quinces aren’t much to eat raw, but cooked they offer up a flavor between apples and pears, and unlike both, lend more substance to a stew.

There’s a lot of recipes for North African beef or lamb tagines with quinces — many Persian and Syrian ones as well. From Claudia Roden’s books I learned to cook the quinces separately, giving them their own deep honey glaze, then folding them into the almostfinished stew.

Make the onions Add another quarter cup of olive oil to the skillet. When hot, add onions and garlic. Sauté until clear, add the carrots and celery, then the bay leaves and all the spices. Sauté a few more minutes.

Cook the stew If you use an Instant Pot, add the beef and onion mixture to the Instant Pot. Pour in about two cups of water, so it comes about threequarters of the way to the top of the meat. Stir well. Cover and cook at Stew/Meat setting for @foodaism an hour. In a regular heavy pot, stir all ingredients together, add water, bring to boil, then lower heat to medium. Cover with a tight lid and simmer the stew for two hours.

3 lbs. boneless beef shank or stew meat, in 2-inch cubes 3 onions, chopped 5 cloves garlic, chopped Make the quinces 1/2 cup olive oil Wash the quinces but do not 1 Tbsp. ras el-hanout peel. Place quinces in a pot of 1 tsp. smoked paprika boiling water. Boil the quinces 1/2 tsp. cinnamon about 15 minutes or until barely 3 tsp. salt cooked. They should still be 1/2 tsp. harissa or cayenne firm. Cut quinces in quarters 1 tsp. pepper lengthwise. Remove core with 2 bay leaves knife. Cut in eights, then cut 1 carrot, chopped crosswise into chunks. In a 1 stalk celery, chopped Beef and Quince Tagine large skillet, heat the vegetable 2 large quinces oil. Add quinces and honey. Sauté until well1 tsp. honey browned, turning frequently. Set aside.

1 small lemon, juiced 3 Tbsp. vegetable oil Finish the stew About 2 cups water If you're using the Instant Pot, let cool, then open. Stir in most of the quinces and the lemon Sear the meat juice. Taste for seasoning: You may want more Season the beef with salt and pepper. In a harissa, salt or pepper. Remove lid, stir in most large skillet, heat a quarter cup of olive oil. Add of the quinces and the lemon juice. Taste for beef cubes and sauté until well-browned on all seasoning: you may want more harissa, salt or sides. You may need to do this in batches so pepper. To serve, dish stew into a warm servyou don't crowd the skillet. Remove the beef ing bowl with the liquid. Garnish with reserved from the skillet and let rest while you make the quince. Serves six. onions.

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

Needy or needed?

selves: the transcendent or the sacred.

Altruism would seem to qualify as a transcendent value, yet altruism has no equivalent word in ancient or modern evolutionary trait that enhances Hebrew, rabbinic scholar Rabbi species survival, an involuntary Emil Hirsch notes.

Pavlovian response to the “feel The closest terms are nedivut, good” brain hormones triggenerosity or openhandedness, gered by giving, or a learned and ahavat hazulat, implying behavior rewarded by increased love of one’s fellow human feelings of self-esteem and self- being, neither of which encomworth. passes the idea of reciprocity or Jewish psychologist Abracost to oneself. ham Maslow reframed these The Hebrew calls to mind explanations as a hierarchy of God’s acts of pure goodness innate human needs, expanded and kindness, a selfless givto include meaning, personal ing that exemplifies holiness, growth and, at the apex, trana quality the Torah calls on us scendence: being motivated by to emulate in order to be holy values that reach ourselves. beyond the perThe human sonal self. challenge of selfEach of these less giving, howexplanations ever, is that we implies that, in are hard-wired the words of for self-interest.

Rabbi Warren The great Goldstein, “God Lithuanian sage has hard-wired Rabbi Shimon self-interest deep Shkop offers a into the human most intriguing psyche.” response to that challenge. “If Two thousand years earlier, the self is getting in the way of the Talmudic sage Hillel imhelping others, then we need to plied the same: “If I am not for expand our definition of the self myself, who will be for me?” to encompass others — family, But just as Hillel continued, community, the Jewish people, “If I am only for myself, what the world.” am I?,” Maslow recognized Goldstein adds, “The more that human beings also have we reach out to others, the an absolute need for something greater we become. This is why, bigger and higher than themwhen a child is born, we pray:

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While attending a conference in New York, Panamanian Rabbi Gabriel Benayon took time to shop in Manhattan where he purchased a new pair of sneakers. Returning to the conference, the rabbi noticed an ill-clad fellow enter his subway car, shoeless. Benayon thought to himself, “Why do I have

Candace R. Kwiatek two pairs of shoes and he has none?”

He might have concluded, “I need a second pair of shoes,” and left it at that. Instead, he chose to see that they were needed by someone else even more. So he gave the shoes he was wearing to his fellow passenger and then put on his own new sneakers.

“We always have to be alert,” he explained. “We always have to try to think what good can we do towards another.”

Behavior that benefits another individual at some risk or cost to oneself is known as altruism. It’s variously explained by psychologists as an

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Doing. It’s the little things that make all the difference when flying from London to Los Angeles with a toddler, Barbara recalls. "Like the man who lifted my carry-on into the overhead. And the couple seated next to me who moved to the next row, saying kindly, 'We thought you’d enjoy the extra room.' And the woman who spontaneously packed up my things as we readied to land, allowing my baby to continue sleeping on my shoulder. They made the trip so much easier, and I’m so grateful."

Fixing. "I was creeping along Chicago’s I-55 in a snowstorm when my car skidded, eventually coming to an abrupt halt, horizontally across three lanes of the highway," Ethan remembers. "Heart pounding, I surveyed my limited options. A nearby driver stopped, stepped out into the middle of the highway, and waved both arms yelling, 'Stop!' Traffic came to a halt while he called out directions, guiding me back into one of the lanes. 'You’re good,' he shouted, thumbs-up, as he jumped back into his car and took off."

How many times do we zoom by others, too busy with the rush of life to pay attention to another's need?

Each person has something to offer, a talent or gift that can help another. “We exist because we are needed,” Manis Friedman concludes.

“That’s who we are. We are necessary.”

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‘May this katan’ — this small one, ‘become gadol’ — become big. We pray for this infant, so naturally preoccupied with meeting its immediate physical needs…to become someone who sees the people around him, really sees them, and has an expansive perspective of the world and an expansive definition of self.”

“You have freedom of choice, and the choice you need to make is a very simple one,” advises YouTube’s most popular rabbi, the Chasidic social philosopher Manis Friedman.

“You can be needy or you can be needed. That’s it. That’s what (the purpose of life) boils down to. You can focus on your needs, try to satisfy your needs, pursue your needs, do it your way — whatever that means, and you’re gonna get depressed. Or you can focus on who needs you.”

Giving. "I remember the early years of Israel," muses Devorah, "when every egg and every piece of fruit was a treasure, and they didn’t stretch far in a family of 12. At the end of the street lived Mrs. Arzi. She wasn’t rich, but she saw things that needed to be seen. She would often give me a banana from her shopping basket as naturally as if I were her own child. I learned from her that you don’t have to be wealthy or live in prosperous times in order to give."

Gitty and Kvetch by Caroline Kusin Pritchard. It started out as a perfect day when the upbeat and adventurous Gitty and her cranky feathered friend, Kvetch, set out on an adventure. But when Gitty’s perfect plan turns upside down, the importance of friendship and seeing things in new ways come into play. Complemented by lively, colorful images and hilarious dialogue sprinkled with Yiddish, this tale for primary ages also holds great adult appeal.

Coco at the Ritz by Gioia Diliberto. Unknown to most, Coco Chanel, the couturier and founder of the Chanel brand, had dark connections with the Nazi party that made her very rich. Her paramour was a Nazi officer, but did she willingly agree to become a Nazi spy? She was an avowed antisemite, but did she ascribe to Nazi ideology? Did she seek personal profit or was she just trying to survive? Based on well-researched history, this novel raises the challenge of how each of us stands up to evil within our sight.

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Arts&Culture

Lessons learned from people — & pets — kick off JCC's annual Cultural Arts & Book Series A New York Times bestselling author/veterinarian and a National Jewish Book Award winning longtime NBC News Israel correspondent/bureau chief will raise the curtain on the JCC's 2023-24 Cultural Arts & Book Series in October.

Karen Fine opens the series Oct. 19 with a talk about her new memoir, The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life and Mortality.

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An hour before Fine's talk, CABS will host an animal service resource fair.

Prolific author and television journalist Martin Fletcher

returns for his third talk on the CABS program, Oct. 29 at University of Dayton. This time, he'll discuss his latest book, Teachers: The Ones I Can't Forget.

He shares stories of what he's learned over his four decades of reporting.

"My business was to meet people on the worst day of their lives, tell their story, and move on, often to a different tragedy in a different country," Fletcher recounts in the book's introduction. "I needed thick skin, but many left a scratch on my soul.

I learned from their lives, and they changed me."

The JCC series continues with a dozen more events through April. For details, go to jewishdayton.org.

The JCC Cultural Arts & Book Series opens with Karen Fine, Thursday, Oct. 19 with an animal services resource fair at 6 p.m. followed by her talk at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. The cost is $5. Donations of pet food, cat litter, and animal treats are encouraged.

In partnership with the University of Dayton Dept. of Communication, CABS will present Martin Fletcher on Sunday, Oct. 29 at 2:30 p.m. at Science Center 114. Free parking on campus is available at Lot B. The cost is $7, free for students with ID. Tickets for both programs are available at jewishdayton. org/events, 937-610-1555, or at the door.

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Continued from Page 10 of Zelenskyy’s Jewishness. That his nation has rallied around him is a testament to both President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people.

But there is something else that I think speaks strongly to the Ukraine of today — the actual trigger that reminded me how important it was that I visit Babyn Yar. There is a Hebrew song, Eli, Eli, (My Lord, My Lord) that many of us have heard sung on Yom Hashoah, the yearly event we hold to commemorate the Holocaust.

The words were originally a poem written by a young woman, Hannah Senesh, who at the age of

19 in 1939 had immigrated to British Mandate Palestine to escape the antisemitism she faced in her native Hungary. Hannah Senesh was a true woman of valor.

In 1943, she enlisted in the British Army and volunteered to be trained as a resistance fighter. On March 14, 1944, she parachuted into Yugoslavia and spent three months with Josip Tito’s partisans before working her way north toward her ultimate objective, Budapest.

Soon after reaching Hungary, she was captured.

Despite enduring five months of interrogation and torture, she never divulged a single detail of her mission. On Nov. 7, 1944, she was executed by firing squad.

In January, Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, shared on Twitter the Ukrainian Army Choir singing Eli, Eli at Babyn Yar during ceremonies mark-

ing International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The menorah where I was able to place a memorial stone is a tribute to the Jews killed at Babyn Yar and the focal point of this wonderful video.

The heroism of Hannah Senesh during the Shoah and the heroism of the Ukrainian people today both speak eloquently to that spirit within us that yearns for freedom and demands that we fight evil when encountered.

Our Haggadah, which we read each Passover, reminds us that this is the responsibility of each and every generation.

When we think of the Ukrainian people, we should never forget those who died at Babyn Yar, but we should also remember that moment — in the midst of their own bitter struggle against tyranny — when the Ukrainian people did honor to their memory.

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Singing community

program at Beth Abraham.

"We don't know what it's going to be," Glazer says. "It could be a teaching, it could be Continued from Page Nine a couple of niggunim. It's going to be something experiential. that place of connectivity, you We want people to be drawn can connect just as deeply by connecting to the group energy. in, like we did with Joey. Let's learn this niggun together and Dybbuk chaverim is the glue see what it feels like. Let's see to the absorptive quality that happens when you connect with if there are any future applications we might discover in the friends around you." process. What does it touch in When he learned that teaching 15 years ago from Nehemia our soul?"

Their findings, he says, will Polen, it inspired Glazer to dig form volume six of his Tiberian deep into research about this lost community of Tiberias and Chasidism book series, "with contributions from contemits relevance for today's world. porary experts in niggunim and musicians from Orthodox Tiberian niggun America and Israel." workshop This month, Glazer hopes to Virtual lunch & learns bring the sounds of Tiberian Glazer begins a new virtual niggunim to life for the first lunch and learn series Oct. 2 time in centuries — at Beth that will continue Mondays Abraham Synagogue. from noon to 12:45 p.m. He'll Four rabbis from across the introduce participants to what United States who are expert calls the "37 musicians will Glazer hopes to he different flavors" join him at Beth Abraham in an bring the sounds of Chasidism.

"My goal is to intensive 72-hour of Tiberian go through all workshop.

37 flavors, try to For the work- niggunim to with people shop, Glazer has life for the first share as many of the been granted access to the Meir time in centuries niggunim as I can find," he says. "I Shimon Geshuri want to celebrate what exists, Archives of Chasidic Song and but I also want to uncover the Dance of Israel's Jewish Music things that people don't even Research Center at Hebrew know. We can complicate and University of Jerusalem. also enhance our spiritual lives An ethnomusicologist, Geby understanding how rich Jushuri musically notated thoudaism really is from a spiritual sands of Chasidic melodies he perspective." heard in the mid-20th century, noted who he heard sing them, and where those who sang them And a new book, too Along with all the rabbi's said the melodies originated.

Glazer describes the Geshuri Chasidic programming he archives as like a recipe book of launches in October, he celebrates the release of his new Chasidic melodies. book with Rabbi Martin Cohen, Only six or seven melodies Merest Breath, a contemporary connected to the Vitebsker translation of Ecclesiastes with and Kalisker Rebbes from the two new commentaries.

Geshuri Archives have been Glazer describes Ecclesiastes published. as the strangest book of the "But there's more. Much, Bible, and one of his favorites. much more. What I want to do "It's the most interesting, with the group is to go through fascinating book that you never the archives and workshop would have imagined would be some of these melodies that part of the Tanakh (Jewish Bible), have basically been almost lost to history. We're going to camp and it is."

Beth Abraham will host a out in the chapel, we're going to book release celebration via have a recording studio set up there, and from dusk till dawn, Zoom at 7:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 2. Preregistration is required at we'll pray together, we'll eat bethabrahamdayton.org. together, we'll study together, "I've been working on it for and we're going to spend most of our time going through each a lot of years and it's going to be fun," Glazer says of Merest of these pieces that we find Breath. "We wanted to give it a in the archives. 'Gishori says contemporary recharge, with a this one comes from Tiberias. translation making it fresh and Let's try this one. Let's move it accessible, and commentaries around the circle and see what that speak to the breadth and happens.'" depth of where these great On Monday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m., the rabbis will share what works of sacred literature come from." they've discovered in a public

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OBITUARIES Rochelle Maris Goldstein passed away on Sept. 7 in Dayton at the age of 81. She was born on April 8, 1942 in Allentown, Pa., the only child of the late Edward Erkes and Ruth Anne Shupack Erkes.

Rochelle was a kind and caring individual, known for her inquisitive nature and energetic spirit. She dedicated her time to various causes as an active volunteer, always seeking ways to make a positive impact on her community.

In her professional life, Rochelle had a diverse career.

She was a piano teacher for many years, sharing her love for music with numerous students.

Additionally, she owned a knitting shop, where she nurtured her passion for knitting and connected with fellow enthusiasts. Rochelle also served as a secretary at the Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities and later as a membership manager at WDPR Discover Classical radio station.

Rochelle found solace and community in her faith. She worshipped at both Beth Abraham Synagogue and Temple Israel. Her spiritual beliefs were an integral part of her life, providing her with guidance and strength.

Beyond her professional and religious pursuits, Rochelle had a rich array of hobbies. She was an avid knitter, creating beautiful pieces with her skilled hands. Historical fiction held a special place in her heart, and she loved immersing herself in the captivating stories of the past. Rochelle's passion for film and cultural arts led her to become a longtime member of the JCC Film Fest Committee, contributing to the celebration of Jewish culture and art. She was also an avid supporter of the rich Dayton cultural arts community.

Rochelle will be deeply

missed by her beloved family.

She is survived by her devoted husband, Michael Goldstein; her daughter, Ellen Goldstein; and her sons, Eric and David Goldstein. She also leaves behind one granddaughter and four grandsons, who will cherish her memory.

Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. In memory of Rochelle, contributions may be made to WDPR Discover Classical radio station, the JCC, Beth Abraham Synagogue, or a charity of the donor's choice.

Rochelle's legacy of kindness, curiosity, and dedication to her community will continue to inspire all those who were fortunate enough to know her.

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