Volume XXI, Issue XXIII | www.thejewishvoice.org Serving Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts
HANUKKAH
29 Kislev 5776 | December 11, 2015
Temple Am David in receivership BY FRAN OSTENDORF fostendorf@jewishallianceri. org PROVIDENCE – A temporary receiver has been appointed for Temple Am David in Warwick. On Nov. 25, Theodore Orson, of Providence’s Orson and Brusini law fi rm, was appointed by the Kent County Superior
Court to preserve and protect the assets of the temple to maximize the benefit for creditors. Assets include the temple building, on Gardiner Avenue in Warwick, and sacred items, including eight Torahs. In many receiver situations, such as a company with a facAM DAVID | 2
5 questions to ask after San Bernardino BY URIEL HEILMAN JTA – Since last week’s mass shooting in the California city of San Bernardino, U.S. authorities have been piecing together what might have led Syed Farook and his wife, Tafsheen Malik, to gun down 14 of Farook’s colleagues at a holiday party for county health department employees. The attack raises a host of questions. Here are five to consider. 1. In Israel, armed civilians stop terrorist attacks. Should that be a model for America? Opponents of gun regulation argue that attacks like the one in San Bernardino, the Nov. 27 Planned Parenthood clinic shooting in Colorado and even the 2012 massacre at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, demonstrate the need to have an SAN BERNARDINO | 23
PHOTO | ARIEL BROTHMAN
Students mix challah dough and chat with friends at Brown RISD’s Challah for Hunger chapter.
Student bakers fight hunger with challah BY ARIEL BROTHMAN
When I was in college – which was not that long ago – a professor assigned us a video project wherein we had to show our interpretation of the city where we lived and attended school. I chose to contrast a series of starkly dark landscapes (the Canadian city was/is in an economic recession) against the warm and bright colors of the time I spent with friends. I fi lmed at two friends’ houses, where we spontaneously made food, danced and sang, and chased each other around the house with various kitchen utensils, laughing and shouting and falling the whole time. I still look back on that video fondly; there is no experience quite like making food with your friends. But there’s something even better than making food with your friends: making food with your friends for a good cause. That’s exactly what is taking place in the Brown
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RISD Hillel kitchen every Thursday evening. Challah for Hunger, a national initiative with a goal of providing food for the hungry in communities throughout the country, “brings people together to bake and sell challah to raise money and awareness for social justice” and “make[s] a difference in the world by investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs, social activists, and philanthropists,” according to the group’s website. With 78 student-run chapters, young adults across the country are doing everything from mixing dough to selling the fi nished challot in their communities to raise money for the hungry. Proceeds from the sale of the 48 Kosher challot that the students bake every week are split between a national organization, which is chosen by Challah for Hunger, and a local organization chosen by each chapter. Challah for Hunger has selected the national CHALLAH | 3
Happy Hanukkah