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Cleveland Kesher debuts a new feature in this issue where we profile a member of the community we feel is interesting and who you should get to know. If you have someone you would like to suggest for consideration, email submissions@ClevelandKesher.com. Please provide the person’s name, contact information and why you think they are “Someone you show know.”

Someone you should know Etty Cusner | Realtor and disc jockey LISA MATKOWSKY

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ometimes, the most interesting people live right next door.

University Heights has been home to Etty Cusner, a Realtor and disc jockey for the last 10 years and she’s someone you should know.

Cusner and her husband, Ashi, an organizational psychologist, live with their children, Mikey 15, Akiva 13, Eliana 9, Azi 5, and Rikki 2, all of whom attend Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood. They came to Cleveland a little over a decade ago for educational purposes and have really enjoyed the community.

“I love it here,” Cusner, who plans to move to the Poets’s Corner neighborhood in Shaker Heights, told Cleveland Kesher.

“Both University Heights and Shaker are so wonderfully warm and charming,. There’s such a good quality of life here. Cleveland is such a great place to raise children. I love the beautiful (Cleveland) Metroparks, and everything is just a few minutes “drive away.”

Cusner was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she attended the Shulamith School through high school and then started her college career at Touro University.

“When I moved from New York with my husband to Brookline, Mass, where we lived for six years, I completed my degree at the University of Massachusetts and taught at the New England Hebrew Academy,” she said. “When we then moved to Cleveland, I continued to work as a teacher at the Fuchs 4 | Cleveland Kesher

Etty Cusner combines her day job as Realtor with her side job of being a DJ. | Kesher Photo / Lisa Matkowsky Mizrachi School.”

Despite a passion for teaching, Cusner yearned for more autonomy.

“Back in 2013, when we arrived, I enrolled in a real estate licensing course,” she said.

“I was eager to be my own boss, make my own hours and feel connected to my new community. I enjoy helping people find their homes, where they can make tons of meaningful memories. I am a very handson Realtor and enjoy sitting with the clients

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Community News CUSNER | 4 throughout the whole process – from start to closing. Each transaction is just a really amazing opportunity to change a client into a friend.”

Helping people and building relationships in the community is a running theme for Cusner.

In addition to her career as a Realtor, she is a disc jockey as well. Cusner and her partner, Smadar Chafetz, run a DJ business for bat mitzvahs, which is another of her passions given her lifelong love of music.

“Music and dancing have always been a huge part of my life,” Cusner said. “My dad was a professional chazzan and composer. He taught me how to transform a moment through music, and that is something that I have been doing for as long as I can remember. My mom passed away from cancer when I was 11 years old and the one amazing memory that sticks with me to this day was her putting on the record player and us just dancing together in my living room. I believe that my parents were responsible for developing my love of music and dance. So, when I get on the dance floor at bat mitzvahs, I am taken back to those precious, cherished moments from my youth.”

The idea of becoming a DJ was also inspired once the family moved to Cleveland.

“Smadar and I decided to share in this adventure together,” she said. “We both had a deep enthusiasm for music, dancing and bringing simcha to people’s lives. In 2015, DJ Zuz was born. We are very unique to the Cleveland simcha scene in the sense that we don’t simply hype up the party with fresh music and watch the party happen. Rather, we join in the party and hype up the dance floor. We are constantly reimagining creative ideas to bring extra-Zuz-fun to events.”

The Cusners attend several shuls, primarily Green Road Synagogue in Beachwood and Kehillat Heichel Kodesh in University Heights.

She said she is glad she chose Cleveland and that if she wasn’t living here, she would be most likely living in Israel.

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Smadar Chafetz, left, and Etty Cusner can often be seen taking to the dance floor as owners of DJ Zuz. | Submitted photo said.

“Or Florida,” she said with a laugh, “because of the weather.”

But she is pleased with her choice of community and her choice of juggling two careers.

“I was drawn to real estate as a tool to provide for my family and to invent a new professional self, whereas I was drawn to being a DJ in pursuit of delivering happiness and fun to others,” Cusner said. “It happens to be that I find deep pleasure in performing both jobs, even though I was drawn for different reasons.

I hate to sound cheesy, but … It is an absolute privilege to be able to serve the community in both capacities. I hope that I can continue for many years to come.”

Lisa Matkowsky is a freelance writer from Beachwood.

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Fuchs Mizrachi participates in Rabbi Sacks Legacy program CLEVELAND KESHER

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ntegrating the ideas of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks into the current curriculum in Jewish schools across North America is what the Torah V’Chochmah program consists of.

“We were looking for schools that were interested in doing this, interested in integrating Rabbi Sacks’ wonderful ideas into their curriculum, but also teachers who are interested in growing professionally,” Rabbi Jeremy Bruce, Torah V’Chochmah program director and executive director of the Rabbi Sacks Legacy North American operations, told Cleveland Kesher.

The program helps participants incorporate the teachings of Sacks, who died in 2020, into their classrooms to help inspire the next generation of students to lead meaningfully Jewish lives, according to a news release.

Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood was one of 18 schools selected to participate in the Rabbi Sacks’ Legacy Torah V’Chochmah program and to attend the five-day program at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls from July 9 to July 13 in Teaneck, N.J. The

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two teachers from the school were junior high teacher Aliza Joel and high school teacher Rabbi Rick Schindelheim.

“It was just so energizing to be part of a cohort of like-minded, passionate, thoughtful educators who continuously want to grow both personally and professionally,” Aliza Joel told Cleveland Kesher.

The two local teachers are being mentored

by Rabbi Zvi Grumet, the Chumash mentor, and developing two curricula for the Book of

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The group of participants from the U.S., Canada and Mexico at the Torah V’Chochmah program at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck, N.J. | Photo / The Rabbi Sacks Legacy 10 | Cleveland Kesher

Community News FUCHS | 10 Shemot for both the junior high and the high school.

“The learning that we did at the conference, Rabbi Dr. Grumet’s mentorship and the opportunity to learn and work with colleagues from across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, England and Israel were each incredibly valuable enough in their own right,” Schindelheim wrote in an email to Cleveland Kesher. “The combination of all of these made it an exceptional professional development experience.”

The program is in the design phase until summer 2024, and will be implemented in the 2024-25 school year. Three different sources are a part of this program, including Jewish philosophy, Chumash and parshat HaShavuah, Bruce said.

Aliza Joel teaches Chumash to sixth, seventh and eighth graders, which gives them the skills to decipher, decode and understand Torah, and to have it be an inspiration for them to live a life of meaning and Jewish values, she said.

“It’s exciting to have a fresh viewpoint after having taught for so many years, and just the ability to innovate and grow and improve my teaching practice is so invigorating,” she said.

Aliza Joel hopes to build on her current curriculum with the values and ideas from Sacks onto her more traditional commentaries, she said.

“The idea of this program, the Torah V’Chochmah program, is to be able to incorporate Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, his inspiration, and his Torah, his values, his

Rabbi Jeremy Bruce, program director of the Rabbi Sacks Legacy’s Torah V’Chochmah leads a session at the five-day program. desire to make the world a better place,” she said. “And most of all, I would say, his hope for the future – something I’m really excited to make part of my junior high Chumash curriculum, and to be able to spread to my students.”

Through the Book of Shemot, Aliza Joel said she will look at two different themes Grumet shared. Through the themes, she will choose what the students will learn in both the original texts with more traditional commentaries, and with some essays, quotes or ideas from Sacks, she said.

“I’m excited to be able to bring it onto the level of junior high students at a time where they’re really starting to think about things in a more personal way,” she said.

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I doubt he was observing the speed limit, maybe he didn’t realize it was in kilometers.

Speeding down the highway, he turned to us and said, “Check this out. You know I could turn off the car and it will still drive.” Without giving us a chance to respond, he proved it to be true and turned off the car.

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“Oh no,” he exclaimed, “The steering wheel locked up, I can’t control the car.”

Thankfully, it was a straight stretch of road, with no other cars around, and we were able to stop the car completely and avoid a terrible incident.

Do you ever feel like that? Do you ever sense that there are areas of your life that are just running on their own and you need to get a grip?

Are any areas of your life driving themselves and you would like to take better control?

Elul and this season of the year are the designated pullover for us all. We are able to stop the car and recalibrate. There are so many opportunities this month to tap into our soul, to regain control of our lives.

One of the greatest lessons I have learned about how to take control, I learned outside of an ice cream shop. A few years ago, a guest speaker for the teenagers of NCSY, shared such a simple way to be more in control of our decisions.

“Keep a daily accounting of the areas of life you need to work on,” she said. “If you question yourself daily about certain practices, those areas of life become easier to deal with.”

Her message made such an impression on me, and I have achieved various goals of personal improvement because of it. A daily accounting truly helps you stay focused on your goals.

May we all maximize our Elul and High Holidays by pulling over, refocusing and learning how to journey forward.

Rabbi Menachem Tenenbaum of University Heights is the associate regional director of Central East NCSY (formerly known as the National Conference of Synagogue Youth). He recently authored his debut book “Three Steps Forward,” a book about Jewish prayer.

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Time for School Fuchs Mizrachi School

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This summer, campers enjoyed Machane Mizrachi. This year’s theme was tzvaim b’olam, colors in the world. Each week they explored a new color, investigated them through art, sensory activities, song and play.

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