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PM receives B’nai Brith’s highest honour

By Liana Shlien Prime Minister Stephen Harper was awarded B’nai Brith International’s highest honour, the Presidential Gold Medallion for Humanitarianism, in an Ottawa ceremony on June 27.

The presentation was made at the opening of a weekend gathering here that included a meeting of B’nai Brith International’s Board of Governors and B’nai Brith Canada’s annual Leadership Policy Conference.

The award is “reserved for only those individuals who have demonstrated inspired leadership and served society at large well beyond their call of duty,” said Ottawan Moishe Smith, president of B’nai Brith International.

Previous recipients have included former Israeli prime ministers David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir, former U.S. presidents Harry Truman and John Kennedy and former

prime ministers Margret Thatcher of Great Britain and Malcolm Fraser of Australia.

Smith said Harper’s nomination for the award was the first made in 30 years by Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B’nai Brith Canada.

“Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unwavering commitment to principle on such matters as the safety and security of the Jewish people and the fight against global terror make him most deserving of this award. Prime Minister Harper continues to be a beacon of inspiration not only for Canadians but for peoples all over the world who value democracy and freedom,” said Dimant in a release announcing the award.

The humbled Harper lit the last candle on a large glass menorah, the symbol of B’nai Brith, before accepting the prestigious award.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is congratulated by B’nai Brith International President Moishe Smith on receiving the Presidential Gold Medallion for Humanitarianism at an Ottawa ceremony June 27.

Israelis debate response to threat from Arab attackers within

By Roy Eitan JERUSALEM (JTA) – The deadly tractor rampage in Jerusalem on July 2 has prompted a furious public debate in Israel about what steps the government can and should take to protect Jerusalemites against would-be Arab terrorists.

The attack, in which a Palestinian from eastern Jerusalem used a tractor to kill three people and injure dozens on Jaffa Road, drew furious and sometimes confused responses from the Olmert government.

Several ministers called for the terrorist’s home, in an Arab village on Jerusalem’s outskirts, to be razed. Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon reiterated his proposal for that village, Sur Baher, and other outlying Arab neighbourhoods to be cut out of Jerusalem.

Their residents would become West Bank Palestinians, ineligible for the rights afforded to Jerusalem’s Palestinians.

“These are Palestinian villages that were never part of Jerusalem,” Ramon told Army

Radio. “They were annexed to it in 1967.”

The debate about how Israel should react to the threat from Arabs within its borders reflects the dilemma of a Jewish state proud of its ethnically mixed democracy, but also mindful of the pull of pro-Palestinian sympathies among the country’s large Muslim minority.

Husam Duwayat, the driver of the tractor, was one of some 200,000 Arabs in Jerusalem who identify as Palestinian but live within Israel’s borders.

Hailing from territory Israel captured during the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed to Jerusalem shortly thereafter, these Arabs are considered by Israeli law to be resident aliens. They bear Israeli identity cards and have all the rights of Israeli Arabs except the right to vote in national elections.

That makes it difficult for the state to crack down on them without either appearing prejudiced or, in effect, declaring limits on its national sovereignty.

Some Israeli officials’ calls for demolishing Duwayat’s home

were met with ambivalence.

“The order to demolish the homes of families of terrorists, residents of an Arab neighbourhood in Jerusalem, is something I do not understand at all,” wrote Yaron London, a Yediot Achronot commentator. “Do we not believe that Israel is ‘Jewish and democratic’ and that the same law applies to Tel Aviv as to Sur Baher?”

Demolishing the homes of Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank or Gaza Strip was a longtime Israeli practice until recently, (Continued on page 2)

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Jerusalem tractor terrorist apparently acted alone (Continued from page 1)

when domestic and international criticism prompted the Israel Defense Forces to discontinue it. Nevertheless, it was in keeping with martial law instituted by the former British rulers of Palestine.

Used against an Arab in Israel, the tactic would raise accusations of double standards, since the state never considered such a response to the occasional act of Jewish terrorism.

Privately, Israeli security officials say the quandary about what to do in Duwayat’s case is compounded by questions about what motivated his murderous spree.

Authorities have been unable to establish any firm link to Palestinian terrorist groups, and they are considering the possibility that the 30-year-old father of two simply may have taken leave of his senses.

Duwayat had previous romantic ties to a Jewish woman and a history of drug offenses.

A “lone attacker” theory also was suggested in the attack by an eastern Jerusalem Arab last March that killed eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva.

In that case, however, the target and the weapon pointed more obviously to a political motivation.

Despite the pain and anger surrounding last week’s attack, many Israelis recognize that eastern Jerusalem Arabs, like Israeli

An onlooker peers into an overturned car at the scene of a tractor attack in downtown Jerusalem on July 2.

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Arabs as a whole, are relatively unlikely to take up arms on behalf of the Palestinian cause, though they may pay lip service to antiZionism.

Opinion polls show that most Arabs are loath to give up their rights in Israel, with its democratic freedoms and welfare stipends.

That means that any ethnic-specific security mea-

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sures run the risk of straining the already frayed fabric

of Jewish-Arab ties in Israel while doing little to thwart

terrorists acting on their own.

Thus, Israeli officials predict, security precautions will remain tactical rather than institutional. Police officers and private guards at public venues and targets such as Israel’s airports will continue to subject Arabs to more intensive scrutiny than Jews. The Shin Bet will continue to monitor IsraeliArab communities for proPalestinian sedition, just as its secretive Jewish division monitors far-right settler groups for violence.

But there cannot be sweeping legislation that undermines the collective rights of 20 per cent of Israel’s population.

The exception is in cases in which an Arab openly sides with a foreign enemy of the Jewish state. That’s why Israel moved quickly to revoke the resident rights of Jerusalem Arabs serving in Hamas after the Islamist group swept Palestinian Authority elections in 2006.

By pure coincidence, Duwayat’s rampage was followed by the ratification of a bill banning an IsraeliArab who visits an enemy state from serving in the Knesset.

Harper: support for Israel unshakable (Continued from page 1)

“It is truly an honour to be the first Canadian awarded the Gold Medallion,” said the prime minister.

“Today, there is no longer any hesitation or ambiguity to Canada’s position. We see Israel as a friend and ally in the democratic family of nations.

Our support for her right to exist is unshakable. Our support for her right to self-defence is unequivocal. Just as we support a two-state solution in the Middle East,” said Harper.

The prime minister restated the government’s refusal to participate in the Durban II conference scheduled for next year, which he expects will be

a repeat of Durban I. “This country will not be a party to an anti-Semitic, anti-western hate-fest dressed up as an anti-racism conference.”

Harper said the government will partner with B’nai Brith, Yad Vashem and Canadian Jewish Congress on the task force for international cooperation on Holocaust education, remembrance and research.

He also called attention to the government’s role in establishing the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg and to the creation of Canada’s historical recognition program to commemorate shameful incidents in

Canadian history such as when hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the SS St. Louis in 1939 were turned away from Canada and the United States and sent back to Europe where more than 200 were murdered in the Holocaust.

It was also announced that the B’nai Brith Centre for Human Rights has been established in Harper’s honour.

The educational centre will promote human rights within Canada with initial funding coming from a one million dollar endowment donated by Anna and Leslie Dan. Leslie Dan is the honorary chair of the B’nai Brith Foundation of Canada.

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They made a difference

Zeev Vered remembered by his granddaughter

By Ariel Vered Editor’s note: When community leader Zeev Vered passed away at 82 on June 9, we asked New Yorkbased journalist Ariel Vered, a former Bulletin staff reporter, to write about her grandfather.

When Zeev Vered came to Canada from Israel in 1950, with his wife, Sara, after fighting in the 1948 War of Independence, he had very little to show for himself, save for his optimism, drive and charm.

But, where many would have failed, he succeeded.

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Zeev led by example. He was a good man, open and giving. He understood that a good relationship was the most important foundation of any business dealings or friendships. That so many of his closest friends were also business partners says something about his character: he was an honourable man who inspired loyalty in those around him.

He wore many hats: family man, engineer, business partner, philanthropist and friend, to name a few. They were all, in essence, the same man with the same principles: a loyal, encouraging, dedicated, educated, hardworking visionary who believed that anything was possible.

Zeev had a thirst for knowledge and it was with bright-eyed optimism that he took on his first jobs in Canada because they afforded him opportunities to learn more about his chosen profession and chosen country.

He went on to achieve countless professional accomplishments: the Nortel Skyline campus at Baseline

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and Merivale, commercial buildings throughout Ottawa, renovation of the Peace Tower and, his proudest accomplishment, the Jerusalem City Hall Plaza.

Working was in his blood, so Zeev didn’t retire easily. He enjoyed being involved in every aspect of the business, so it was hard for him to stay away from the office.

The Ron Engineering and Arnon Group of Companies that Zeev founded and nurtured for 50 years continues to thrive because

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of the solid foundation of dedicated employees and boundless vision he provided. It takes a special sort of man to inspire all of his children to enter into the family business and his sons, Gillie, Arnie and Ronnie, are as committed as Zeev was to building upon the companies’ respected reputation; something they strive to do so from his example.

While Zeev’s mind was

focused on cultivating a successful business, his heart was in helping others.

Zeev’s legacies of philanthropy and good will are assured in the many programs which bear the proud Vered family name.

With Sara, Zeev supported and encouraged many efforts and campaigns in both the Jewish community and the community-at-large, touching the worlds of medicine (the Vered Tree of Life at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute), arts (the Vered Israel Cultural and Education Program) and education (the Vered Jewish Canadian Studies program at the University of Ottawa).

In 2003, Zeev was appointed to the Order of Canada, which he regarded as a great honour from his adopted country.

Zeev Vered exemplified the core values that are at the heart of Ottawa’s Jewish community and encouraged the constant pursuit of education, healthy living and

family, foundations upon which our community can solidify the deep bonds between generations. What an honour it is for me to be a part of such a well-respected family, with a grandfather who imbued a strong sense of commitment and loyalty simply by living by those principles.

Zeev’s life played like a sort of rags-to-riches story.

Having fled Germany for Israel with his family at an early age, Zeev made his mark by convincing people of his potential and by working hard. But he was never content to rest on his laurels and will be remembered as a remarkable, kind and generous man with an inherent purity to his soul.

Although he never saw himself as such, he was a giant in the community.

It is hard to say goodbye to such a man. He was tireless in his efforts. He was a good man, a great man and, most importantly, a happy man.

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They made a difference

Joseph Ages remembered by his son

By Murray Ages Editor’s note: Joseph Ages passed away on June 3.

This article is based on the eulogy delivered by Murray Ages. The Bulletin thanks Cynthia Nyman Engel for her assistance in preparing the piece for publication.

My father, Joe Ages, was 93 years old when he died.

He was one of the last of a generation that faced enormous challenges and overcame adversity in a manner that our generation and succeeding generations have difficulty comprehending.

My father’s mother, Esther Bodnoff, arrived in Canada in her early teens, a refugee from persecution and poverty in Russia. She married at age 16 and, by the time she was 20, she had been widowed twice. My father, the eldest of her three children, was three years old.

From that point on, he assumed responsibility as the man of the house.

To observe my father was to know that he was, indeed, the ‘man of the house.’ His personality was forged from unfortunate life circumstances that instilled in him the discipline and drive to succeed. In childhood, he battled and won a fight with polio that left him with a deformed shoulder. Fortunately, he was blessed with

Joseph Ages (Photo: Stuart Ages)

inherent intelligence. He was the gold medallist in all four high school years, including top grades in physical education.

My father worked from a very young age – while he was still a student – to help support the family. In that era there wasn’t the social safety net we enjoy today. Dad supported his mother financially throughout her life.

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His determination to provide a better life for his family left no time for frivolity, and my father was in no way a frivolous person. His drive to succeed included an unlimited work ethic and a

restaurant ventures using the tried and true Ages approach.

Dad also was involved in Sherman’s Record Stores, a chicken and egg farm operation in the 1960s, and Sanco, a commercial building cleaning business. He was even, briefly, one of the owners of the Junior A Hockey Team and arena in London, Ontario.

It was in his personal life that Dad achieved his greatest success.

A man who was essentially shy and ill at ease with small talk, he nonetheless summoned the courage to pursue and marry my mother, Rose Appel, a social butterfly with a smile that could light up a room.

Their 50-year relationship was truly a love story until she passed away. My father subsequently married Rae Palmer Segal, a relationship that was abbreviated when Rae succumbed to illness.

For the past 11 years, he was

married to Nikki Oko. It fell to Nikki to nurture my father through his final struggles with Alzheimer’s disease.

Dad’s parenting and grandparenting advice matched his businesslike approach: “Work hard, do it not well but perfectly, and show moral integrity at all times.”

As a child born of hardship and deprivation, and as a survivor of the Great Depression of the 1930s, he had difficulty believing, and even accepting, his good fortune. While he denied himself many things he could well afford, he was unfailingly philanthropic in his support of the Jewish community, the community-atlarge, and Israel. The Joseph and Rose Ages Family building standing proudly at 21 Nadolny Sachs Private is but one of several visible testaments to his generosity.

Joe Ages was truly one of a kind.

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JFS provides a model for social service agencies Editor’s note: JFO Chair Jonathan Freedman has arranged to share his column, on occasion, with the chairs or presidents of the community’s major beneficiary agencies or committees so they can provide some insight into their operations.

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Jewish Family Services (JFS) has expanded in the past three years to include an array of services including a mixture of settlement services for new Jewish immigrants, programs for independent, Jewish elderly and financial support of the segment of our Jewish clientele who live below the poverty line.

In particular, over the past 18 months, our Thelma Steinman Seniors Support Unit has been providing an increasingly broad range of services to a growing population of seniors living in the community. As well, our Tikvah Unit offers timely monetary support to the more than 10 per cent of Jewish families in the region who require it in order to cope with the economic realities of their daily lives. These are programs that I believe have a well-deserved profile in the Jewish community.

However, you may not be aware of the breadth of exceptionally useful work that

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JFS carries out in the community-at-large.

This now comprises more than 75 per cent of the agency’s work.

One of our most gratifying programs, initiated more than a decade ago, is a mentoring relationship with the Somali Community of Ottawa from which the Somali Centre for Family Services emerged.

This partnership, and others we are currently developing, demonstrates the groundbreaking role JFS has taken. Forging a collaborative working relationship with the Somali community, while being able to provide invaluable social support services, is a powerful example of the success that JFS has had in improving community relations.

We have built upon this success with new and increased public support. In turn, the agency is broadening our outreach

model to include other non-traditional partners. This mandate will have a major impact on JFS in the near future and could have significant positive consequences for the Ottawa Jewish community.

As a result of generous funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s Immigrant Settlement and Adaption Program in October 2007, JFS was able to hire experienced professionals to provide outreach to local community health centres and to assist them in addressing the needs of new Canadians – both Jewish and gentile.

Our new staff members working on these initiatives come from diverse backgrounds: a traditional Somali Muslim worker provides outreach on our behalf at Carlington Community and Health Services; an Israeli Arab counsellor reaches out to Arabic-speaking clients at PinecrestQueensway Community Health Centre; and a Hebrew-speaking Russian professional conducts programs on our behalf at the Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre.

These valuable outreach workers are aiding populations of new immigrants who may not have received service because of

language or other barriers. They are also able to identify new Jewish immigrants who may not otherwise have had contact with the Jewish community. This program is succeeding beyond what we had imagined and it has encouraged the agency to move forward on our mission of helping other ethnically specific communities.

Our initiatives have created invaluable partnerships in the community as well as with our supporters and will assist JFS in achieving the long-range goal of offering linguistic and culturally sensitive direct services to seniors and new immigrants throughout the Ottawa region in the years ahead.

Our services are focused on the Jewish community but are offered to the broad general population thus providing a strong reflection of Canadian multiculturalism. For this reason, I am most optimistic about JFS’s plans for the next three years to have a meaningful impact on the vulnerable populations within our community. I look forward to offering details on our progress in a future edition of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.

It’s been 10 years! Help celebrate the Soloway JCC Our ancestors Abraham and Sarah set the standard: their tent opened on all sides to welcome travellers and strangers. We have followed this teaching at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (JCC) in creating a building where we welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, respectfully and inclusively.

We honour the Hebrew expression for welcome, Baruch Haba, blessings on whoever comes to our building.

A building is like an empty tent and, as the Soloway JCC celebrates its 10th anniversary this September, we are proud that our tent bulges with people and activities. What better way to greet a newborn member of our community than with Shalom Baby, a JCC program that gives new mothers a gift basket and invites them to join other new mothers at the JCC for strollercize, swim classes and baby massage?

We are also proud of our Multicultural Child Development Centre and the Ganon Preschool, which provide Jewish schooling for our youngest and launch them on their Jewish journeys. With amazement, we realize that our first graduates are now at Bar/Bat Mitzvah age.

Our tent also enfolds some of the oldest people in our community in programs such as the Mitzvah Knitters and Creative Connections. We extend our hospitality to many Jewish community organizations, which hold major events, courses and celebrations in our building.

From 6:00 am, when fitness enthusiasts line up at the front desk, to 10 pm, when basketball teams grab showers and race out while the members of the Shira Ottawa Choir

Soloway JCC David Spring Chair linger in the lobby, the Soloway JCC offers spaces to read, to exercise, to swim, to learn about being Jewish. When the seasons turn, we turn as well from hosting schools and courses to running summer camp.

The Soloway JCC has created several meaningful activities to commemorate our 10th anniversary. We have established a Supporting Wall on the lower level of our building. By donating a tile on the Wall, community members can express their support for the Soloway JCC while also contributing to the Soloway JCC’s Special Needs Aquatics Program at the Metulla Community Centre’s Clubhouse for Children at Risk in Israel. The tiles can be used to mark a special occasion, honour a loved one, or congratulate the Soloway JCC on this significant date. After the anniversary, the names will remain and the donations will have aided children both in Ottawa and Israel.

Our connection to Israel is a theme of our anniversary events. On Sunday, August 17 at 7:30 pm, we will celebrate Tu B’Av, the Israeli holiday of love, which links us to the lives of modern Israelis. Tu B’Av is the revival of an ancient agricultural midsummer’s festival in Israel when couples attend concerts and send roses to their beloveds. The

Vered Israel Cultural and Educational Program will host an evening poolside party with cocktails, sushi and live entertainment that brings Israelis and Ottawa Jews together to celebrate. While the adults are enjoying this Israeli-style idyll, the teenagers are preparing for the Maccabi games, where they will represent Ottawa in competition with other JCC teams from around North America.

We are also building our connection to other JCCs through Live from New York’s 92nd Street Y, where we bring some of the most sought after speakers in the United States into our social hall via direct satellite link. Most people would not otherwise have the opportunity to hear these luminaries in

Ottawa and to ask them questions during the transmission via the Internet.

The festivities will culminate with an Anniversary Gala Celebration on Sunday, September 14 at 7:30 pm, featuring music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. We will honour loyal members who have been part of the Soloway JCC family for 10 years and present Celebrating our First Ten Years, a book of anecdotes, photographs and memories of life at the Soloway JCC. All are welcome, so please come join us!

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Nothing good came of the Second Lebanon War By the time you read this, there is a good chance that Israel will have repatriated the two soldiers, Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, whose kidnappings from within Israel on July 12, 2006, precipitated the Second Lebanon War with Hezbollah.

For almost two years, the Goldwasser and Regev families, indeed all Israelis and supporters around the world, held out hope the two soldiers would come home alive.

Sadly, that does not seem to be the case.

“As far as we know, the two soldiers – Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev – are no longer alive. As far as we know, they were killed during the kidnapping or died from their wounds soon after the incident,” said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert late last month when it was announced that a deal had been reached, through German intermediaries, for the return of the pair.

In return, Israel will release a number of Hezbollah terrorists, including Samir Kuntar, who brutally murdered four Israelis in 1979. That Israel has agreed to release Kuntar is seen as a concession that Israel has given up on recovering airman Ron Arad, who has been unaccounted for since being captured in Lebanon in 1986. Kuntar had long been considered a bargaining chip that Israel would use to bring back Arad.

The heads of Mossad and Shin Bet both opposed giving up Kuntar as it would indicate that Israel has given up on Arad. However, the Israeli cabinet overwhelmingly voted, 22-3, to release Kuntar in return for

Acting Editor Michael Regenstreif the remains of Goldwasser and Regev.

Two years of not knowing whether their loved ones were alive or dead; or, if alive, under what circumstances, has been a terrible ordeal. Last November, I spoke with Omri Avni, Goldwasser’s father-in-law, about the families’ very difficult dilemma.

“You don’t know if your son, or husband, or son-in-law is alive, or not; if he’s being fed, or not. You can’t return to the routine of a regular life,” he told me.

Hopefully, a funeral and period of mourning will bring some sense of closure for the Goldwasser and Regev families.

The apparent loss of Goldwasser and Regev is yet another tragic reminder that there were no good outcomes from the war in Lebanon two summers ago.

And what about Gilad Schalit, the other missing soldier? Schalit was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists who had crossed over into Israel on June 25, 2006. They took him to Gaza where he has remained a Hamas prisoner ever since. Unlike Goldwasser and Regev, there has been evidence that Schalit is still alive.

There have been numerous rumours – all of which have turned out to be false – that Schalit’s release was imminent.

Many, including Schalit’s family, felt that the current ceasefire with Hamas should have been linked to Schalit’s release.

Barring a breakthrough in the week between when this column was written and when it appeared in your mailbox, the ordeal of Gilad Schalit in Gaza and of his family at home in Israel, continues. ******* Under the pressure of a continuing corruption investigation, it appears that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s time in office might run out in the next couple of months. He has been forced to agree to the holding of a leadership election in the Kadima Party he inherited from the stricken Ariel Sharon.

Labour Party leader, Ehud Barak, the minister of defence, had threatened to pull his support from the governing coalition unless Olmert agreed to a leadership election.

Although Olmert, who professes innocence of wrongdoing, has yet to indicate whether he will contest the Kadima leadership, most observers think Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is most likely to win. Israel could have its second female prime minister.

Livni’s possible ascension to the Israeli prime ministership, like Senator Barak Obama’s possible election to the American presidency, signals a generational shift with tremendous potential for the future. Will

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I’ve never been much of an Adam Sadler fan and have never bothered to see many of his movies. But, there I was on a hot Saturday night in July laughing hysterically at the antics of an Israeli superagent, the greatest counterterrorist agent of all time, a man who can catch bullets in his teeth and twist his opponents into human pretzels.

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Zohan asks his parents over dinner. His father’s war, after all, only lasted six days while he’s been fighting for years and years.

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Zohan fakes his death and heads to New York to pursue his dream of being a hairdresser. The film overflows with nonstop crude jokes, sight gags and all manner of Israeli and Palestinian stereotyping. But it’s funny; much funnier and much more entertaining than I expected it to be.

I don’t want to give away too much of the plot except to say that, ultimately, the film does have a message that embraces peace and love.

A Bat Mitzvah celebration for three generations I didn’t have a Bat Mitzvah, at least not in the sense that people usually mean. I converted to Judaism as an adult and therefore got an automatic pass on the traditional rite of passage.

I remember the first time I saw a Bar Mitzvah in synagogue. I watched a small skinny boy stand on the bimah, enveloped in a huge tallis, chanting the Torah. He sang beautifully, his voice having not yet broken, and he did so for a long time. I watched him chant the entire Torah portion and sighed in relief on his behalf as he finished. I then watched in amazement as he started in on his Haftorah.

I leaned over to my husband and whispered, “I can’t imagine having to do something like this when I was 13 years old. I’m glad I converted into the religion and managed to avoid this.”

As I learned more about becoming a B’nai Mitzvah, I continued to become more impressed, particularly when I saw what the lettering in a sefer Torah looks like. It didn’t bear much resemblance to the aleph bet I’d learned in Hebrew class.

As time went on, I began to feel less like I’d escaped some awful adolescent torment and more like I’d missed out.

Learning to chant Torah is obviously a

Nicola Hamer significant accomplishment, marking as it does the passage into Jewish adulthood. I know there are many women who never chant Torah and lead fully Jewish lives, and have done so for centuries. But, since I was looking forward to seeing my children becoming B’nai Mitzvot, it would leave me as the only one in my family without the experience.

I started toying with the idea of having a Bat Mitzvah myself. The question was when.

Doing it on the 13th anniversary of my conversion had a certain appeal, but that would put it a year before my eldest daughter’s Bat Mitzvah and I didn’t want to overshadow her in any way.

An opportunity presented itself a couple of years ago on a mission to Israel. At a premission meeting, Rabbi Steve Garten of Temple Israel announced that he was leading an early-morning Thursday service at the

Learning to chant Torah is obviously a significant accomplishment, marking as it does the passage into Jewish adulthood.

Southern Wall and anyone who wanted to read from the Torah would be welcome to. I couldn’t resist that opportunity, even though there were only a few weeks in which to learn. The time constraints required that I could only read, rather than chant, the portion I was given.

The experience was very meaningful for me. I was proud of myself for managing to learn as much as I did in such a short time and I found the experience of reading from the Torah at the Southern Wall deeply moving.

While I was nervous, I was also exhilarated.

Next time, I told myself, I’m going to make sure I have the time to really do this properly and actually chant a Torah portion.

I had no idea when that next time would be, until I attended my eldest nephew’s Bar Mitzvah. I watched as his father and grandfather each chanted a portion and thought about how nice it was to see three generations up there on the bimah. Perhaps, I thought, my husband and father-in-law could do that at our daughter’s Bat Mitzvah.

Wait a minute! It’s a Bat Mitzvah. Forget the men. My mother-in-law and I should do it.

To my delight, my mother-in-law agreed, even though she has never done it before (making this now her Bat Mitzvah too). She can’t even comfortably read Hebrew. She’s a little concerned that this makes us both officially nuts. There are moments when I feel the same. But we have the two smallest aliyot and almost a year to learn them.

I am delighted that, instead of overshadowing my daughter, I will be up on the bimah with her. She is delighted too. I suspect, though, it is not so much over the symbolism of having her mother and Bubby with her at such a significant moment, than because it means having to learn two less aliyot of her week’s Torah portion.

It won’t be an easy or simple task, but I now realize that is part of what makes it so significant.

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Focus on education at Federation AGM

By Michael Regenstreif Revitalizing Jewish education in Ottawa, and providing for its future, is the top priority of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa in the coming year, according to Jonathan Freedman and Mitchell Bellman in speeches delivered at the Federation’s annual general meeting (AGM) on June 11.

Freedman, Federation chair, noted that the community’s major day schools, Hillel Academy and Yitzhak Rabin High School, have both experienced falling enrolment levels and financial shortfalls over the past year.

“We, at Federation, and as a community, cannot ignore their calls for support,” he said.

However, Freedman explained that the Federation cannot increase its financial contributions because this would entail budget cuts in other areas of commitment.

“We do not want to cut our allocations to the needy or elderly,” he said.

Freedman said Federation

support to the schools will take the form of aiding in the reorganization and rationalization of governing structures and fundraising capabilities. Tuition costs, which are currently lower than in most North American Jewish communities, he said, would have to rise to meet the true cost of providing education.

Parents, according to Freedman, will need to be convinced that the financial sacrifice of paying full tuition fees is a worthwhile investment in their children’s future, that the education they receive surpasses Ministry and public school standards.

At the same time, he suggested that the schools must remain accessible to students whose parents do not have the means to cover the full costs of enrolment in Jewish day schools.

“Our schools,” said Freedman, “must find an easy, equitable and assessable way to allow those who cannot afford the full costs to enrol their children.”

Bellman, president and

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CEO of the Federation, said that, working together, the Federation and the schools “are on the verge of revitalizing our system” by seizing on opportunities to be more efficient and effective.

A key to revitalizing the Jewish school system in Ottawa, said Bellman, is recruitment, noting that U.S. studies have shown that involving parents in the community at the time they are having their first child is important.

“This is the time in one’s life when you undergo the most significant changes,” he said. “We need to be part of the building of new social networks at this time of life so that we can get those new networks of friends involved in our schools and our community.”

Bellman also spoke about

several other outreach initiatives of the Federation including the recently opened Jewish Ottawa InfoCentre.

The Infocentre, he said, was based on a similar program in Toronto’s Jewish community, which has found that its InfoCentre has become the main point of engagement for middle class Jews in Canada’s largest Jewish community.

Bellman said the director of the Toronto InfoCentre explained to him that “those who can afford to pay have no barriers while those on social assistance readily get subsidies. But those in the middle class are increasingly opting out even when they still want to remain Jewish. In Toronto, they learn how to connect through the InfoCentre.”

The Federation’s three major awards were presented during the AGM.

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Stuart Ages received the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award, which recognizes exceptional service to the community by an individual under the age of 40, and Mayer Alvo received the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award, which recognizes an outstanding volunteer who has contributed to the enrichment of Jewish life in Ottawa over many years.

The Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award, the community’s highest honour, was presented to Arnie Vered who could not attend the AGM because he was sitting shiva due to the untimely passing of his father, Zeev Vered, on June 9. Rabbi Reuven Bulka accepted the award on Vered’s behalf in the presence of his wife, Liz, and four of their six children.

Profiles of the three award recipients were featured in the May 19 issue of the Bulletin.

Freedman also paid tribute to outgoing Campaign Chair Steven Kimmel and outgoing Women’s Campaign Chair Debbie Weiss saying “both did a tremendous job” over the past two years.

Tribute was also paid to Federation clerk Abe Nadrich who is retiring this month after 50 years on the job.

“For 50 years Abe has kept us going,” said Bellman.

“Day in and day out, he has done work that may not be high in profile but has been a critical part of our growth and success.”

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Mayer Kirshenblatt paints the lost world of his childhood

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By Ruth Ellen Gruber KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) – When Mayer Kirshenblatt was born, the town of Opatow in south-central Poland was known to most of its inhabitants as “Apt.” That’s because most of the population was Jewish, and Apt was Opatow’s name in Yiddish.

The Holocaust left Yiddish Apt a distant memory, glimpsed dimly in sepia-tinted photographs or locked up in the hearts of the few people still alive who had known it before the destruction.

Kirshenblatt was one of them until 1990 when, at the age of 73, he taught himself to paint and began to record in colorful detail the vibrant lost world of his childhood hometown.

“I only paint one thing – that’s Apt,” he said. “I paint not from my imagination but what actually happened.”

Sprightly and bespectacled, with twinkling eyes and a bristly moustache, Kirshenblatt turned to painting at the urging of his family.

Since 1967, his daughter, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor at New York University, has conducted interviews with him on prewar Jewish life in Apt.

Mayer Kirshenblatt and daughter Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett speak at the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival on June 30, 2008.

(Photo: Ruth Ellen Gruber)

The recollections were published last year along with nearly 200 of Kirshenblatt’s paintings as a book, They Called Me Mayer July.

The title stems from his childhood nickname, “Mayer Tamez,” or “Mayer July” – slang at the time for “Crazy Mayer.”

The book has won several awards and brought international attention to the work of Kirshenblatt, who left Poland for Canada in 1934.

He continues to live in Toronto.

In recent months Kirshenblatt’s paintings have been exhibited in San Francisco and are slated to be shown in Atlanta, New York, Amsterdam and Warsaw over the next two years. This summer, for the second year in a row, Kirshenblatt’s work was featured at the annual Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow.

And on June 28, Kirshenblatt and his daughter brought his memories of Apt back to present-day Opatow with an exhibition of 50 fullscale digital prints of his

paintings, on display at the Opatow District Office building.

“It was absolutely fabulous,” Kirshenblatt said. “We had over 200 people and they made a tremendous display.

The event was well advertised all over the city with posters – even the priest mentioned it.”

He added, “I’ve had exhibitions elsewhere, but here the people, the atmosphere, was absolutely the best I ever had.”

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Abe Nadrich to retire after 50 years of service to the community

By Liana Shlien Abe Nadrich retires at the end of the month after 50 years spent working for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and its predecessor the Jewish Community Council of Ottawa/Vaad Ha’Ir. He has been, by a margin of many years, the Federation’s longest-serving employee.

The Ottawa-native began working at the old Jewish Community Centre (JCC) on Chapel Street in 1958 just a few years after it first opened.

There were just four staff members at the JCC then and Nadrich sent out flyers promoting the centre’s programs using an early addressograph machine.

What began as a parttime job in Grade 11, directing calls as a switchboard operator, soon transitioned into full-time work – the last 30 years as clerk.

Technological changes have been profound over the half-century that Nadrich has worked for the community.

“I started out using a standard typewriter before going on to an electric one and then, eventually, a computer,” he said.

“The day’s work gets done a lot faster now.”

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“It’s a bright and happy atmosphere here.”

“For 50 years Abe has been keeping us going,” said Federation president and CEO Mitchell Bellman in making a presentation to Nadrich at the Federation’s annual general meeting on June 11.

Bellman recalled what happened in his own early days with the Vaad when Nadrich took some time off for a Florida vacation.

“Within the first few hours, the entire place fell apart. Mail didn’t come.

Mail didn’t go out. The photocopiers broke and no one knew what to do. Faxes disappeared.

“The anxiety in the office was palpable and the staff circulated a petition demanding that Abe never be permitted to take a vacation again.”

Looking back, Nadrich says it was “a milestone” when he celebrated 25 years on the job in 1983. Now, after 50 years, he is leaving feeling contented and fulfilled.

“When I go home, I always feel like I’ve accomplished something,” he said.

Federation clerk Abe Nadrich enjoys his last month working at the Jewish Federation of Ottawa.

(OJB photo: Liana Shlien)

Yitzhak Rabin students visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington

By Zachary Kershman YRHS Student Each year, the Grade 9 students of Yitzhak Rabin High School, as well as students from other schools, travel to Washington, D.C. to visit various museums and connect with fellow students from other places. However, the main purpose of the trip is to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to obtain a better understanding of the Holocaust.

Our journey to Washington began at 6:00 am when the students and three chaperones met at the Ottawa airport. We were sleepy, but eager.

After arriving in Washington, we were given a guided tour of the Washington Mall.

This consisted of the White House, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and various other memorials to wars and past presidents.

After seeing the amazing architecture and the magnificent beauty of the monuments and memorials, we were taken by bus to our hotel. Then it was time to make new friends. Around 200 students from all across Canada, both Jews and nonJews, joined us for dinner and socialized while ice-breaking games were played.

The next morning we

made our way to the Holocaust Museum, a well-lit stone building with lots of people and many sad and horrifying exhibits.

As the tour began, we were each given an identification booklet. Each booklet told the unique story of a person who had experienced the Holocaust – some who were murdered by the Nazis and some who survived. We were asked to read another page of the booklet each time we entered another of the four floors in the museum.

The museum’s levels are organized in chronological order of the events of the Holocaust.

Beginning on the fourth floor, the exhibits document Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, the imposition of the Nuremburg Laws on the Jews and other minorities and describe how the Germans determined if a person was Aryan or not based on hair colour samples and the measurement of people’s noses and foreheads.

We then walked down a corridor with hundreds of framed photos of people who perished in the Holocaust.

Reaching the third floor, we were given a sense of what the ghettos were like for the Jews. We were struck by the harsh living conditions and

lack of food.

On the way to the second floor, we again walked through a corridor filled with seemingly endless photos of those who had perished. This floor was about the concentration camps. There was a model cattle car that we could stand in to see how small and dark they were. There were videos showing the experiments and tortures that people endured in the concentration camps, as well as a model concentration camp illustrating how well organized the camps were to serve the purpose of genocidal mass murder.

Finally, on the first floor, there were exhibits about Righteous Gentiles and countries that helped save many Jewish lives during the Holocaust, as well as on the liberation of the death camps and videos of Holocaust survivors telling their stories.

The next day, we returned to the Holocaust Museum to hear a riveting talk from a survivor about experiences in the Holocaust as a young girl.

She inspired many of us and, once she had finished, hands flew up with a whole range of interesting questions.

Visiting the Holocaust Museum was a tremendous learning experience that strengthened our identities as Jews and deepened our thinking about the moral choices we must face as human beings.

Later on, we were free to visit other museums. Some of us went to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and others went to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. At the Air and Space Museum, some students were lucky enough to see Hollywood star Ben Stiller doing a movie shoot.

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Two exhibitions help to explain how the Holocaust could happen

By Liana Shlien When commemorating the Holocaust, the question always resurfaces: “How did society allow this to happen?”

Two exhibitions, currently in Ottawa, address the question by showing how devaluing the lives of certain groups of people became acceptable and how both scientists and artists defined and celebrated the ideal human being in 1930s Europe.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, which explores the Nazis’ obsession with eugenics, is a travelling exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that opened at the Canadian War Museum last month.

Meanwhile, the National Gallery of Canada’s summer art exhibit, entitled The 1930s: The Making of ‘The New Man,’ revisits the decade’s art as it reflects biological and esthetic ideas of human perfection.

Prominent at the entrances to both exhibitions are glass anatomical models, replicated from the Deutsche Hygiene Museum, which were used for teaching at the beginning of the German eugenics movement.

The ‘science’ of eugenics – attempting to improve and perfect humanity by selective breeding and eliminating individuals and groups considered undesirable – took root easily and grew into a full-fledged movement that drove the Nazis’ anti-Jewish policies and ultimately the Holocaust.

The artifacts, photos and documents at the War Museum, dating from 1933 to 1945, attest to how eugenics was passed off as a pure science, was legitimized by Germany’s top physicians and researchers, and how Hitler’s Nazi regime made it a national policy.

People deemed a burden on national resources – the handicapped, homosexuals and the ‘feebleminded’ – were targeted by the Nazis for forced sterilizations in order to safeguard the ‘collective health’ of German society.

Conversely, it was German women’s national duty to have many children in order to sustain the ‘master race.’ Medals were awarded to prolific mothers.

Under the cloak of war, so-called child ‘euthanasia’ programs pioneered the use of gas for large-scale killing and, in concentration camps, eugenicists ran experiments in the name of genetic research.

Though the exhibit is disturbing and unsuitable for children, its value is unquestionable.

“We’ve received an overwhelmingly positive response from the public,” noted project manager Sarah Dobbin.

Besides being made bilingual, the Washington exhibit was adapted to fit the Canadian context, says Dobbin.

“It comes as a big surprise to a lot of the patrons that eugenics was widely accepted internationally, with a lot of support in the United States and Canada.”

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A replica of The Glass Man from the Deutsche Hygiene Museum in Dresden is a central symbol of the eugenics movement. A similar female replica is also on display at the Canadian War (OJB photo: Liana Shlien) Museum.

programs in Western Canada, targeting the mentally and physically disabled, that lasted until 1972.

Over at the National Gallery, the latest exhibition on the 1930s features 207 works from Europe and North America, including masterpieces by Dali and Picasso, which clearly reveal the troubled times of the Depression years. The disturbing, yet fascinating show is arranged into themes such as Genesis, The Will to Power and Convulsive Beauty.

The 1930s were not defined by one artistic movement, but encompassed brash contrasts and contradictions, like the polarity between the ‘superman’ and the ‘degenerative’ that appears throughout.

Biology was the focal point. Yet, much like the disfigured styles of many of the works, science itself became a distorted rationalization for the racist ideologies that permeated totalitarian regimes.

As the show’s title suggests, the concept of renewal was novel to this decade. The cult of health and the quest for bodily perfection were major preoccupations.

Breeding ‘the new man’ was an essential element of Nazi propaganda appealing to the masses of young boys. The masculine ideal – the Aryan athletic, muscular figure – was set against the sick and weak.

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race runs until November 11 at the Canadian War Museum. The 1930s: The Making of ‘The New Man’ is on until September 7 at the National Gallery of Canada.

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It was, Kirshenblatt said, a far cry from the first time that he returned to his hometown.

That was in 1988, when Poland was still in the grip of communist rule. “I was crying,” he recalled. “I came to the town and there was not a sign of Jewishness.”

Since then, Kirshenblatt and his daughter have returned on other occasions and established good relations with Opatow’s residents.

“I enjoy going back there, and Opatow is beautiful,” he said. “But it’s not Apt.” Displaying the energy of someone far younger than 91, Kirshenblatt and his daughter have toured extensively, accompanying slide shows of his paintings with lively discussions of the incidents and people portrayed.

“At my age,” he said, “to have another career like this is most terrific.”

Detailed, wry and often witty, Kirshenblatt’s paintings are peopled by sometimes crudely drawn characters, each of which seems to come to life as an individual.

They crowd around dinner tables or cluster in the synagogue. They peer into windows, carry water in wooden buckets, play music, walk to school, mourn the dead and

even commit a crime.

To a certain extent, the paintings recall the work of the American Grandma Moses, another self-taught artist who took up the brush in her 70s and created remembered scenes of rural life in 19th century America.

History, though, has given Kirshenblatt’s work a special edge.

The titles of his paintings reflect complex, even convoluted tales that defy common stereotypes. Some examples: The Kleptomaniac Slipping a Fish Down Her Bosom; Boy with a Herring; The Hunchback’s Wedding; Jadzka the Prostitute Shows off her Wares at the end of Market Day at Harshl Kishke’s Well.

“What I’m trying to say is, ‘Hey! There was a big world out there before the Holocaust,’” Kirshenblatt told his daughter in one recent conversation. “There was a rich cultural life in Poland as I knew it at the time. That’s why I feel I’m doing something very important by showing what that life was like.”

“It’s in my head,” he said.

“I will be gone, but the book will be here.”

Opatow’s official website offers scant mention of the town’s Jewish past. Most of

those who live there now settled in the town from elsewhere after the Second World War. Knowledge about the town’s prewar past is sketchy.

Things are changing, though, says KirshenblattGimblett.

At the exhibition in Opatow, she said, she met a young local man who wants to specialize in Jewish studies in college. And as part of a nationwide project of “adopting” historic places, a group of local people is attempting to document the destroyed Jewish cemetery and recover uprooted tombstones.

The high profile accorded her father and his work, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett said, is part of this process.

“They have really embraced him,” she said.

“They consider him really one of the people who holds the memory of the town.”

Significant, too, she said, was the title given by town authorities to her father’s exhibition.

“They called it ‘Old Opatow,’ not ‘Old Jewish Opatow,’” she said. “And when we dedicated the book, we dedicated it to the people of Apt. So it’s everybody, Jews and non-Jews alike, but we dedicated it to the town with its Jewish name.”

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Samuel Golubchuk, 84, of Winnipeg, died of natural causes on June 24. He had been on life support since November. Doctors said he had virtually no chance of recovering and wanted to remove his ventilator and feeding tube.

His case made headlines when Golubchuk’s Orthodox Jewish family took the hospital to court. In February, they were granted an injunction forcing doctors to keep him alive.

Citing Jewish law, the family argued that removing Golubchuk from his ventilator and feeding tube would be tantamount to murder.

Three doctors resigned from the hospital over the case, with one commenting that he felt keeping the elderly man alive was “tantamount to torture.”

A trial over the matter was set to begin in mid-September.

“No one took him off life support. God did and that’s what [the family was] fighting for,” said family lawyer Neil Kravetsky.

Obama to visit Israel this month JERUSALEM (JTA) – U.S. Senator Barack Obama reportedly will visit Israel this month.

The presumptive Democratic Party presidential candidate is expected to arrive in Israel on July 22 or 23 for a two- or three-day visit, Yediot Achronot reported.

According to the report, Obama’s itinerary in Israel will likely include meetings with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other top leaders, as well as a visit to Sderot to show solidarity with residents who have suffered from Palestinian rocket barrages. Obama’s Republican counterpart, U.S. Senator John McCain, made a high-profile trip to Sderot as part of a recent Israel visit.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 – Page 13 In support of the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge In the Joseph and Inez Zelikovitz Long Term Care Centre Card Donations Card donations go a long way to improving the quality of life for our residents. Thank you for considering their needs and contributing to their well-being.

On behalf of the residents and their families, we extend sincere appreciation to the following individuals and families who made card donations to the Hillel Lodge Long-Term Care Foundation between May 29 and July 2, 2008 inclusive.

HONOUR FUNDS Unlike a bequest or gift of life insurance, which are realized some time in the future, a named Honour Fund (i.e., endowment fund) is established during your lifetime.

By making a contribution of $1,000 or more, you can create a permanent remembrance for a loved one, honour a family member, declare what the Lodge has meant to you and/or support a cause that you believe in.

A Hillel Lodge Honour Fund is a permanent pool of capital that earns interest or income each year. This income then supports the priorities designated by you, the donor.

Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund A generous donation was made in observance of the Yahrzeit of our beloved mother Leona Adler by Jeff, Marilyn and Elayne Adler In Memory of: Ivan Berezovsky by Marilyn Adler Esther Shiloni by Marilyn Adler and Neil and Daniel Blacher In Honour of: Marilyn Adler Thank you! by Ingrid Levitz Auxiliary Fund of Hillel Lodge R’fuah Shlema: Sam Gershon by Carolyn and Sid Katz Elsie Baker Endowment Fund In Honour of: Colleen McBride and Mayor Larry O’Brien Mazal tov on your marriage and wishing you all the best in the years to come by Polly and Jackie Moran; and Andrew Levitan Boris and Dolly Blancher Family Fund In Honour of: Irv Osterer Mazal tov on receiving two prestigious teaching awards by the Blancher family Jenny and Murray Citron Endowment Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Murray Citron Zeev Vered by Murray Citron Jean Zackon by Murray Citron In Honour of: Morley Gorsky and Emily Mazal tov and best wishes on your forthcoming marriage by Murray Citron

Michel Lipski Congratulations on your nomination to the Hillel Lodge Board of Directors and on receiving the Ottawa Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Award, as part of the region’s most dynamic, successful and community-minded business people group by Dora and Bernard Lipski Abe and Bea Dubinsky Endowment Fund In Memory of: Sam Spungin by Bea Dubinsky Friedberg and Dale Families Fund In Memory of: Honey Vickie Schachter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob and Jonathan Dale Esther Shiloni by Elaine Friedberg, Bob and Jonathan Dale R’fuah Shlema: Frayda Raber Wiseman by Elaine Friedberg and Bob and Jonathan Dale Malcolm and Vera Glube Endowment Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Vera and Malcolm Glube Moe Kugler by Vera and Malcolm Glube Beatrice Stone by Vera and Malcolm Glube In Honour of: Stuart Ages Mazal tov on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by Vera and Malcolm Glube Nell Gluck Memorial Fund In Memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Molly Goldstein by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Larry Moore by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton In Honour of: Linda and Rabbi Alan Cohen Mazal tov on the birth of your grandsons Benjamin Zvi Cohen and Eli Jaron Gorodszinski by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Manny Gluck Best wishes for a very happy special birthday by Toby Appel; Barry Appel; Toby and Joel Yan; Julia, Ted and Jess Oveton; Sandra Appel and Jerry Shuman, Mira and Naomi; Maureen and Henry Molot; Adee Fortune; and Stephanie Fortune and Eric Mazoff Mildred and Oscar Handelman Best wishes on your 50th wedding anniversary by Rae and Jack Freedman Adrienne Jones Best wishes on your special birthday

by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Jennifer Morawetz Best wishes on your significant achievements by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Sylvia Morawetz In honour of your indomitable spirit by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Matthew Ortved Best wishes on your graduation by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Gail and Stephen Victor Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson Dylan Ross by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton R’fuah Shlema: Leslie and Bob Garnett by Julia, Ted and Jess Overton Gina and Howard Grant Family Fund In Honour of: Judith and Ian Freeman Mazal tov on your silver wedding anniversary by Gina and Howard Grant and family

Moe Greenberg and Elissa Greenberg Iny Family Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Elissa and Avraham Iny Maxwell Feldman by Elissa and Avraham Iny Bella Gallaman by Elissa and Avraham Iny In Honour of: Fran and Stan Ages Mazal tov on Stuart being named the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by Elissa and Avraham Iny Gunner Family Fund In Honour of: Estelle Gunner Best wishes for a very happy special birthday by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz Toba Gunner Mazal tov on the birth of your greatgrandson by Estelle and Sol Gunner Miriam Levitin With sincere appreciation by Estelle Gunner Ingrid Levitz Mazal tov on a successful completion of your presidency by Estelle and Sol Gunner Estelle and Ian Melzer Mazal tov on the engagement of your son Jordan by Estelle and Sol Gunner Fran and Rob Roll Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Estelle and Sol Gunner Sheela and Ozzie Silverman Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Estelle and Sol Gunner Frank and Lily Hoffenberg Family Fund In Memory of: Basil by RoseAnn and Ron Hoffenberg Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Family Fund In Memory of: Sam Kreisman by Roz and Nordau Kanigsberg David, Harvey and Victor Kardish Family Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Sheryl, Harvey, Mallory and Ryan Kardish Sam Spungin by Gale, Victor and Sydney Kardish; and Sheryl, Harvey, Mallory and Ryan Kardish Dorothy and Maurie Karp Endowment Fund R’fuah Shlema: Lee Raskin by Dorothy and Maurie Karp Lillian and Morris Kimmel Family Fund In Honour of: Eileen Baron Wishing you Mazal tov on the Bat Mitzvah of your granddaughter by Lily Feig Sol Kaiman Happy Father’s Day by Steve, Janet, Tobin and Aaron Kaiman Morris Kimmel Happy Father’s Day by Steve, Janet, Tobin and Aaron Kaiman Ed Levine Wishing you a happy and healthy 60th birthday by Brenda, Nathan, Jesse and Daniel Levine; and Morris Kimmel Issie Rose Mazal tov by Morris Kimmel, Janet and Steve Kaiman, Shelli and Steven Kimmel, Brenda and Nathan Levine and families R’fuah Shlema: Norman Raicek by Esthel and Larry Huniu Lee Raskin by Morris Kimmel Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Endowment Fund In Honour of: Miriam Algom Mazal tov and best wishes on your special birthday by Arlene and Seymour Isenberg R’fuah Shlema: Alvin Mallay by Marcia and Charles Rak Levenson-Polowin Feeding Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Heidi and Steve Polowin Max Lieff Endowment Fund A very generous donation has been made to this fund by Dorothy Lieff

Sarah Lithwick Green and Murray Sidney Green Family Fund The Foundation would like to thank Arlene Green for a very generous donation to this fund.

The Foundation would like to thank Henry Green for a very generous donation to this fund.

Pencer Family Fund In Honour of: Irwin Pencer Wishing you a very happy 60th birthday and much health and happiness now and in the future by Alison, Howard, Tara and Emily Modlin Rosenthal/McCormack Family Fund In Honour of: Estelle Gunner Wishing you a very happy special birthday and thank you for all the things you do for me by Helen Rosenthal Schachter-Ingber Family Fund In Memory of: Bella Gallaman by Rachel, Howard, Davida and Josh Schachter Sam Kreisman by Judi and Ed Kerzner Gregory Savelson by Rachel, Howard, Davida and Josh Schachter In Honour of: Cynthia and Vince Feigin A heartfelt Mazal tov on the marriage of Lindsay to Michael. Wishing you and your whole family continued blessings and joy by Rachel, Howard, Davida and Josh Schachter Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Family Fund In Memory of: Don Boyaner by Morag Burch Moe Kugler by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz; Estelle and Sol Gunner; Debra and Stephen Schneiderman; Bonnie Dobson; and Morag Burch Zeev Vered by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman R’fuah Shlema: Liane Freedman by Bunnie Cogan Harold and Lillian Shoihet Memorial Fund In Honour of: Rebecca Rotenberg Ma zal tov on the engagement of your daughter Anna to Moshe Grunfeld by Dovid Shoihet R’fuah Shlema: R’euven Aryeh Sabl by Zaidi David Shoihet Jeff Sidney by Dovid Shoihet and Family Label and Leona Silver Family Fund In Memory of: Jean Zackon by Leona and Label Silver In Honour of: Fay and Moshe Helman Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Leona and Label Silver Ralph and Anne Sternberg Family Fund In Memory of: Louis Ages by Laya and Ted Jacobsen R’fuah Shlema: Alla Khesin by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Mary Nunn by Laya Jacobsen Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Sarah and Arnie Swedler Max Feldman by Sarah and Arnie Swedler Sam Kreisman by Sarah and Arnie Swedler In Honour of: Jack Baylin So glad to see you out and about. Stay well by Sarah and Arnie Swedler Sarah and Arnie Swedler Mazal tov on your 50th wedding anniversary! Wishing you many more years of health and happiness by Doreen and Ariel Arnoni; Elaine and Norman Wolfish; Carole and Norman Zagerman and Andrea Arron; and Evelyn and Joseph Lieff (Continued on page 14)

THE LODGE EXPRESSES ITS SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT AND APOLOGIZES FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, THE WORDING APPEARING IN THE BULLETIN IS NOT NECESSARILY THE WORDING WHICH APPEARED ON THE CARD. GIVING IS RECEIVING – ATTRACTIVE CARDS AVAILABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS Here’s a good opportunity to recognize an event or convey the appropriate sentiment to someone important to you and at the same time support the Lodge. Card orders may be given to Debra or Rhonda at 728-3900, extension 111, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Friday. You may also e-mail your orders to donations@hillel-ltc.om. E-mail orders must include name, address, postal code, and any message to person receiving the card; and, amount of donation, name, address and postal code of the person making the donation. Cards may be paid for by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cheque or Cash. Contributions are tax deductible.

Page 14 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 Dina and Heshel Teitelbaum Mazal tov on Avraham’s marriage to Rivka Malka by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky Alan Williams Heartfelt Mazal tov on your special birthday by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky

(Continued from page 13)

Music Therapy Program In Memory of: Honey Vickie Schachter by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky Esther Shiloni by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky

Roslyn and Myles Taller Family Endowment Fund In Memory of: Rosalyn Cobrin by Roz and Myles Taller R’fuah Shlema: Jane Moody by Roz Taller Ethel Taylor by Roz and Myles Taller

Ritual Program In Honour of: Issie Scarowsky Mazal tov on the birth of your granddaughter and your safe return from Israel by Morris Schachnow

Edith Teitelbaum and Eddie Zinman Memorial Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ages by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Beloved brother of Harry Simkover by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Beloved nephew of Ruth and Hy Calof by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Irving Camlot by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Issie Tannenbaum by Fuzzy and Morty Teitelbaum Zeev Vered by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Annie Zoltak by Fuzzy (Gursky) Teitelbaum In Honour of: Stuart Ages Mazal tov on being named the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership Award by Fuzzy (Zinman) Teitelbaum Mayer Alvo Mazal tov on being named the recipient of the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Award by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Moe Litwack Thank you by Fuzzy Teitelbaum Diana and Al Malomet Wishing you a happy anniversary and may you celebrate many more by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Faigel and Lenny Shapiro Mazal tov on being awarded honorary citizenship in Mazkeret Batya, Israel.

May you continue with your wonderful generosity in good health by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Diane and Louis Tannenbaum Wishing you a happy anniversary and may you enjoy many more years together by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum Arnie Vered Mazal tov on being named the recipient of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service Award by Fuzzy and Max Teitelbaum

Joseph Ages by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; Evelyn and Howard Silverman and family; Ingrid and Gerry Levitz; Carolyn Weiss; and Zelda and Leon Zelikovitz Max Feldman by Jane and Bill James; Ingrid and Gerry Levitz Gladys Friedman by Rae and Jack Freedman Bella Gallaman by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz Eva Geaser by Marion and Myer Vexler Jeph Goldberg by Evelyn and Howard Silverman and family Malca Goldstein by Adele and Jeff Sidney Sam Kreisman by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; Debi and David Shore; Rhonda, Danny, Samuel, Zachary and Shelby Levine; and Bonnie and Bruce Engel and family Moe Kugler by the teachers and staff of Hillel Academy Esther Shiloni by the teachers and staff of Hillel Academy Sintra Singh by Lynn and Brian Keller; and Dodie and Bram Potechin and family Zeev Vered by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; Evelyn and Howard Silverman and family; and Rhonda, Danny and Shelby Levine Beloved sister of Marilyn Goldberg by Marilyn Waserman Beloved brother of Kettlie and Sonia Cherestal by Morag Burch and Staff at Hillel Lodge Beloved brother of Clova Taylor by Morag Burch and Staff at Hillel Lodge

Milton and Mary (Terry) Viner Family Fund In commemoration of the Yahrzeit of Joe Viner a beloved brother by Millie Schaenfield Anna and Samuel Wex Family Fund In Honour of: Sheela and Ozzie Silverman Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Anna and Sam Wex Anna and Sam Wex Mazal tov on the arrival of your granddaughter Iris by Carolyn and Adam Telner Toby and Joel Yan Family Fund In Honour of: Toby Appel Mazal tov on your special birthday with love by Toby and Joel Yan and family Janice and Sheldon Baryshnik Mazal tov on the birth of your new grandson with love by Toby and Joel Yan and family Etta Kaner and David Nitkin Mazal tov on Yael’s engagement and achievement of her PhD with love by Toby and Joel Yan and family Carole and Norman Zagerman Family Fund In Honour of: Max Weinstein Wishing you a very happy special birthday by Carole and Norman Zagerman Feeding Program In Memory of: Molly Goldstein by Ethel and Abe Murray In Honour of: Lynne and Joseph Ben-Ami Mazal tov on Chaya Mushka’s marriage to Kalman by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky Ingrid Levitz In recognition of your outstanding leadership and contributions as President of Hillel Lodge

by Anna and Sam Wex Ethel Taylor Thinking of you by Ethel and Abe Murray

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IN HONOUR OF: Bryna and Simon Gartenberg Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Carolyn Weiss Ingrid Levitz Mazal tov on your successful presidency of Hillel Lodge and for your incredible dedication and most productive years at the helm by Zelda and Leon Zelikovitz; and Thank you for a job well done as president of Hillel Lodge by Joel Diener Jeff Miller Congratulations on becoming the new president of the Board of Directors of Hillel Lodge by Joel Diener Ethel and Bernie Rosenblatt With sincere thanks and appreciation for your time and effort by the Jewish War Veterans Sheela and Ozzie Silverman Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz Buddy Steinberg With sincere thanks and appreciation for your contribution to our function by the Jewish War Veterans Sarah and Arnie Swedler Mazal tov and happy 50th wedding anniversary by Barbara and Sy Gutmajer; Jane and Bill James; and Rhonda, Danny and Shelby Levine Gail and Stephen Victor Mazal tov on the birth of your grandson Dylan by Zelda and Leon Zelikovitz; and Beverly Friedman

R’FUAH SHLEMA: John Holzman by Ruth and Irving Aaron Ethel Taylor by Ruth and Irving Aaron; and Rickie and Marty Saslove Helen Marshall by Zelda and Leon Zelikovitz THE FOUNDATION WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING: The estate of the late Rose Flesher for a very generous bequest to Hillel Lodge Rose and Morris Konick for a very generous donation to Hillel Lodge The Zemer Lach Choir for a very generous donation to Hillel Lodge

Once Upon a Story:

Elliot Marshall’s autobiographical collage

By Diane Koven Anyone who knows Elliot Marshall knows that he always has a story to tell.

He’s a people watcher, an observer of human nature and a man with a great sense of humour.

The transplanted Cape Bretoner has made many friends in Ottawa since moving here with wife Helen to be closer to their two daughters and their families.

Marshall’s lifelong dream was to write a book and he has fulfilled that dream with Once Upon a Story, a compilation of his memories, philo-sophies of life, anecdotes and more.

“Although I wasn’t a particularly good student, I always liked English literature, stories and poetry and thought I may have a chance to put them all together some day,” said Marshall.

The youngest of 10 children, Marshall was six years old when his father died. He credits his mother’s tenacity and her positive attitude for the successful upbringing of such a large family in tiny Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Marshall’s siblings, their lives and career paths are all described in this “autobiographical collage of stories that covers seventy plus years,” as noted on the book’s back cover.

After some time away at university, Marshall returned to Glace Bay and took over the family clothing store. He and Helen operated the store for several decades and there are stories in the book about their adventures in the smalltown retail business, vivid descriptions of some of the “characters” who shopped at Marshall’s, and anecdotes about their small town life.

There are also chapters dedicated to special people Marshall has encountered over the years, including several here in Ottawa.

Marshall pays tribute to his friend and Holocaust survivor, Barry Davis, who is well known locally.

He devotes one of the

Elliot Marshall’s memoirs include stories of small town life on Cape Breton Island and tributes to special friends in Ottawa’s Jewish community.

book’s chapters to Rabbi Reuven Bulka.

“Upon listening to his sermons every Shabbat, I think what a shame that his message is not broadcast directly by satellite signal to the rest of the world. He reaches not only the very essence of your soul, but also the maximum height of rational common sense. And he does it so brilliantly that energy is generated by the flow of his words,” writes Marshall.

There is a moving chapter about the late Bill Leith who, with his late wife Phyllis, was known and loved in the Ottawa community. Bill had grown up in Cape Breton and was a lifelong friend of Marshall’s.

An as-of-yet unproduced screenplay for a proposed television show has found its way into Marshall’s book, as well as several poems.

“There are many chapters in my life, but what are my credentials to write a book?” asks Marshall in the book’s introduction. “I am not a

journalist, not a preacher, not a teacher, nor am I an expert in any field; but I’m a thinker … Jewish themes and many Jewish personalities penetrate my stories. I welcome whatever feeds my curiosity.

I experiment with stories, challenging and exploring life. Stories crop up when I reflect on my youth. I include relatives, old friends, old teachers from down home in Cape Breton, and famous people I admire and quote.”

Cape Bretoners, in particular, are bound to enjoy a nostalgic walk down memory lane while reading Once Upon a Story. But Marshall’s vivid stories about small town life, and about the varied people he’s encountered over his lifetime, will entertain many other readers.

The book is available at the Hillel Lodge Auxiliary Gift Shoppe and at Congregation Machzikei Hadas. Once Upon a Story can also be purchased by contacting Elliot Marshall at elieh@sympatico.ca.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 – Page 15

Northern Galilee mayors visit Ottawa

By Michael Regenstreif Ottawa’s Jewish community has been twinned with Metulla since 1997 as part of the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Partnership 2000 Program (P2K). Metulla, on the border with Lebanon, is Israel’s northernmost town.

Other medium-sized Canadian Jewish communities – in Atlantic Canada, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver – are twinned with other towns and municipal authorities in the northern Galilee. Delegates from several of those Israeli and Canadian communities met in Ottawa last month to review recent P2K achievements and plan for the future.

The Bulletin met with three visiting Galilee leaders during a lunch break from the P2K conference at the Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building.

Metulla Mayor Jacob “Kobi” Katz said the P2K partnership with the Jewish community of Ottawa has been very important to his town. Interactions between the people of Ottawa and Metulla have formed “a liv-

ing bridge” between Israel and Canada. One of the highlights of the P2K partnership, said Katz, has been the close relationship that has formed between Ottawa’s Hillel Academy and Beit Sefer Hanadiv in Metulla.

Katz also said that the people of Metulla are constantly reminded of their friendship with Canadians because the Canada Centre, containing Israel’s most comprehensive athletic facilities, is located there. Among the facilities is the country’s only Olympic-sized skating rink, home to Israel’s national hockey team.

“At first, hockey and ice skating seemed very strange to Israelis,” said Katz, “but it’s become a great attraction in Metulla.”

Ahron Valency, mayor of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, which represents 29 kibbutzim on or near the border with Lebanon, said the P2K partnerships with Canadian communities “show us we are not alone in the world.”

According to Valency, the ongoing interaction between

Canadian Jews and the people of the Galilean communities reinforces feelings of Jewish unity.

“When the Canadian kids come and meet our kids, or when our kids visit Canada, it influences and strengthens their Jewish identity.”

Valency said he was particularly gratified by the solidarity of the Canadian Jewish community during the Second Lebanon War two summers ago.

Beni Ben-Movhar, the mayor of the Mevoot Hahermon Regional Council, which represents 13 communities in the Hula Valley, agreed with the other mayors that the partnerships with Canadian communities were very important to the people of the Galilee.

“I hope they continue for many years,” he said.

As the lunch break ended and the mayors prepared to go back into their conference they were asked if they had a message to pass on to Canadians.

“Come to visit,” said Valency, his colleagues nodding in agreement.

The mayors of three Galilee communities visit City Hall during their trip to Ottawa.

(Left to right) Federation CEO Mitchell Bellman and Mayors Jacob “Kobi” Katz (Metulla), Beni Ben-Movhar (Mevoot Hahermon Regional Council), Larry O’Brien (Photo: Roger Lalonde) (Ottawa) and Ahron Valency (Upper Galilee Regional Council).

AFN chief speaks to CJC Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, addressed the national annual meeting of Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) in Ottawa on June 22 and thanked CJC for its support of efforts that led to the Canadian government’s recent apology to First Nations peoples for the decades of abuse many suffered in residential schools. Fontaine (third from left) is seen here with CJC’s CEO Bernie Farber and co-presidents Rabbi Reuven Bulka and Sylvain Abitbol.

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L’hitraot to Ambassador Alan and Dalia Baker The Ottawa Jewish community bid L’hitraot to Ambassador Alan and Dalia Baker with a musical party June 25. The Bakers will be returning to Israel when the ambassador’s four-year appointment as the Israeli government’s chief representative in Canada ends in September.

Reflecting the ambassador’s deep appreciation of arts and culture, particularly music, the evening featured performances by young Ottawa jazz musician Nathan Cepelinski and Toronto’s Hallelujah Drummers.

Proceeds from the event – pre-

sented by State of Israel Bonds and Canadian Friends of Hebrew University at Agudath Israel Congregation – funded the Alan and Dalia Baker Endowed Scholarship for Perpetual Student Aid in Education the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The scholarship has been earmarked for students from Kiryat Shmona, in Israel’s north, and Sderot, in the Negev, towns which have been perpetual targets of terrorist attacks.

(Right) The Bakers with a painting presented to them that symbolizes their years in Canada.

(Photo: Mark Segstro)

Ruth Berger Memorial Concert at Hillel Lodge

Greenfield speaks at Jewish War Veterans brunch Historian Nathan M. Greenfield was the guest speaker at the Jewish War Veterans of Canada – Ottawa Post’s annual spring brunch on June 22 at Agudath Israel Synagogue. Greenfield’s presentation was based on his recent book, Baptism of Fire: The Second Battle of Ypres and the Forging of Canada, April 1915. (Left to right) Nathan (Photo: Elly Bollegraff) M. Greenfield, Phil Pinkus and Cantor David Aptowitzer.

The Fifth Annual Ruth Berger Memorial Concert took place June 13 at the Bess and Moe Greenberg Family Hillel Lodge in the Joseph and Inez Zelikovitz Long Term Care Centre. Lodge residents and guests were delighted by a program of classical music performed by violinists Stanislav Pronin and Roy Gablinger, cellist Leah Sabbah and pianist Bryan Wyant. The concert was presented by the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation (CICF) and the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation through the Pinchas Zukerman Music Education Fund. Norm Barwin, CICF president (far left), is pictured with the performing artists and members of Ruth Berger’s family.

Friendship Circle barbecue

Beth Shalom celebrates its 50th anniversary More than 350 people gathered at Congregation Beth Shalom on June 18 to celebrate the synagogue’s 50th anniversary. The evening included a cocktail party, an elaborate buffet, music and a screening of a documentary about the shul. There was a presentation to Issie “Mr. Beth Shalom” Rose and the candles were blown out by Max Zelikovitz, a charter member of the congregation. Gathered around the cake (left to right) are Beth Shalom President Ian Sherman, Max Zelikovitz, Cantor Daniel Benlo(Photo: Paul Sheffrin) lo and Murray Zloten.

The Friendship Circle, a program of the Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa that helps families with children who have special needs, held its annual appreciation barbecue for families and volunteers on June 25 at Hampton Park. Among those attending were (left to right): Devora Caytak, Cassandra Starosta, Friendship Circle co-ordinator Sigal Baray, Rebecca Silver, Brittany Silver, Corinne Baray, Trillium Foundation representative Bob Wilson, Aaron Moscoe and Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 – Page 19

A legendary children’s advocate lost in the Holocaust Janusz Korczak’s Children

By Gloria Spielman Illustrated by Matthew Archambault Kar-Ben Publishing 2007 40 pages. Ages 7-10 Most adults who know of Dr. Janusz Korczak probably remember him as a heroic father figure who would not abandon his charges, no matter what.

Korczak was the head of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland. In 1942, at the height of the Holocaust, he calmed his wards by telling them they were going on a picnic as he and they climbed aboard the cattle cars that would take them to the Treblinka death camp.

According to author Gloria Spielman, Korczak (the pen name adopted by Henryk Goldszmidt) was the ultimate advocate and activist for children’s rights, dignity and well-being. In that sense, all children were, and always will be, what the title describes: Janusz Korczak’s Children.

In the book, though, Spielman is referring to a specific time and place and to specific children, poor and orphaned Polish Jewish children, who benefitted from Korczak’s many talents as a physician, educator, administrator, writer and social worker from the early-1900s until his death at Treblinka in 1942.

Written in five short chapters as a picture book biography, Janusz Korczak’s Children provides a simplified overview of an intellectually gifted, sensitive, determined boy and man who grew up in a time so different from our own that young readers may need help to understand the degree of poverty and bias rampant in some social strata of Warsaw, Poland and in parts of its Jewish community.

Spielman’s portrayal of Korczak’s childhood hints at what later must have been the major factors that motivated his life’s work: Why couldn’t all kids play together?

Why did adults physically and mentally mistreat children?

Why weren’t his own parents more understanding of him and his needs?

When his own family’s fortunes declined, Korczak

Kid Lit Deanna Silverman

came to understand how the wealthy could help the less fortunate, especially children.

This understanding stood Korczak in good stead. In 1912, the new Jewish orphanage he was to head opened.

Its standards of care, cleanliness, education and governance were exceptional.

Equally exceptional was Korczak’s devotion to, and relationship with, the approximately 200 children in his care at any given time. Imagine treating children with dignity and respect, allowing them to participate in the governance of the orphanage and encouraging them to publish their own newspaper!

Meanwhile, Korczak was also gaining popularity within the general Polish population as a writer of children’s books, a radio broadcaster and author of books about child care. Despite his growing fame, however, he remained totally devoted to the children in his orphanage.

It is not surprising, then, that in 1940, when the occupying German Nazis created the Warsaw Ghetto and moved the orphanage children there, Korczak stayed with them and continued to care for them even as they were marched to their deaths in 1942.

It is also not surprising that, in an afterword, we learn that Korczak was the inspiration for the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. As I wrote, all children are, indeed, Janusz Korczak’s Children.

The world would do well to continue to learn from his example and his theories of childcare. And our children would do well to learn about him. Although there are aspects of the book that could be improved, Janusz Kor-

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By Gloria Spielman; illustrated by Matthew Archambault czak’s Children is a good introduction to this highly complex man.

Note: I happened to hear Ottawa businessman and philanthropist Leon Gluzman talk about Korczak on CBC radio in April, shortly before I read this biography. Gluzman had been a resident of Korczak’s orphanage before coming to Canada in 1929. The Ottawa School of Speech and Drama is currently developing a play about Korczak and how he affected the young Gluzman that will be performed within the next year.

Page 20 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 that this was his second championship with a Honigman on the hill. He won an Ottawa softball title with the late Lou on the mound.

Summer reading Day by Day in Jewish Sports History by Bob Wechsler covers trivia and sports history for each day of the year and includes names, records, events and achievements of all kinds from virtually every sport you can think of – and some you can’t – to give a definitive picture of the role Jews have played in sports.

The book is informative, enlightening, entertaining, easy to read and includes more than 100 photos. It is available at on-line outlets, including amazon.ca.

Ottawa native Jesse Levine competes with the world’s top tennis names.

Jesse Levine at Wimbledon Although Levine has previously competed in the Australian and U.S. Opens, and has been sparring partner for number one ranked Roger Federer, it is still hard to believe that a kid who grew up in Centrepointe, attended Hillel Academy and played tennis at the Ottawa Athletic Club roamed the grass courts at Wimbledon. Levine, who now resides in Boca Raton and is ranked 137 as a singles player, bested American Donald Young for his first win at the fabled tennis tourney. Although Levine fell in his second match to Austrian Jurgen Melzer, he can still compete with the best players in the world and hopes to be ranked in the top 100 in the near future.

Jewish baseball trivia On August 20, 1938, Morrie Arnovich and Phil Weintraub hit home runs for the Phillies in an 8-7 win over the Giants. Catcher Harry Danning also hit a solo shot for New York. It is the only time that three Jews have gone “yard” in a Major League game.

Team Awards for Soloway JCC men’s leagues Basketball Champions – Team White Hockey Champions – Team Red Softball Champions – Outaouais 2008 Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductee Sergio Fiszman

B’nai Brith Canada Parliament Lodge No. 2159 Athletic Achievement Award Ryan Baker and Brad Ellison Irving “Shap” Shapero Memorial Award Carlos “Bobby” Brown Noah Cantor Middle School Athletic Award Michael Vered and Daniel Altshuller Jack Goldfield Memorial Award Gavi Stulberg and Ariel Pelletier

Jewish Men’s Softball League

Mark Kerzner, who moved to Arizona from Ottawa in 1998, helped found the Phoenix/Scottsdale JCC softball league in 2002. The league has two seasons each year, one in the fall and one in winter/spring.

Kerzner is also a founding member of the Jewish Poker League (JPL), which has sponsored softball teams since its inception. The 2008 JPL winter/spring softball squad included Kerzner, Allen Honigman, Howard Gossack and a host of players in their 40s and 50s.

In their first appearance on the diamond, the Ottawa boys combined for 12 hits and 10 RBIs, including two inthe-park homers, more than enough to spank the opposition and serve notice that this was a veteran team to take seriously.

That early-season lopsided victory proved prophetic as the JPL boys knocked off a top-seeded team of youngsters with a commanding 26-7 victory. The Ottawa JMSL vets were huge and contributed timely hitting to the cause.

Honigman pitched a great game for the win with Gossack and Kerzner playing solid defence. Gossack commented

The 2008 winners

Joe Zelikovitz Memorial Ski and Snowboarding Award Rhea Singer

Andrew Calof attended the Nepean Raiders’ June Import Camp on June 23 at the Steve Yzerman Arena. The Raiders acquired Calof from Hawkesbury in a trade for defenceman Neil Clarke and winger Brad MacCosham in May. The talented Calof counted 51 points including 27 goals with the Hawks in his rookie season.

JMSL veterans star in Phoenix

to faith, family, community and sports as an example we can all look up to.

Athletic Director Jon Braun cited the contributions of the many community volunteers and sponsors.

Sharon Koffman Memorial Athletic Award Talia Feder

Calof makes Raiders debut

The JMSL had a terrific start, but a wet June has had organizer/stats man Howard Miller scrambling to reschedule rained out games. The league welcomes back the Shlebs after a one-year hiatus.

It is great to see Charles Schachnow back on the diamond. He can still hit and son Josh often joins him in the infield. Charles is a great sport and a terrific ambassador for the league.

Irv Osterer

Sergio Fiszman is inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Lou Honigman Award Irv Osterer With Lou, there was no sport without sportsmanship.

That’s the kind of guy he was. And everyone who knew him would tell you that was his game plan. It is a life lesson not lost on me and I feel truly humbled to have received this award in his memory. I hope I can continue to follow his example. .

Breakfast of Champions On June 8, the Soloway JCC honoured the achievements of community athletes at the seventh annual Sports Breakfast of Champions.

Sergio Fiszman, who represented Argentina as a wrestler at the 1976 Olympics, was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Fiszman asked that we support our athletes going to the Maccabiah Games in Israel next summer and endorsed efforts to send an Ottawa contingent to the regional JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit August 17-22.

Guest speaker Laurie Boschman was introduced by Friends of Israel Hockey chair Mitch Miller, who profiled the NHL veteran’s commitment

Ottawa contingent headed to the regional JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit in August (from left to right): Robbie Osterer, Adam Ublansky, Reuben Goldberg, Michael Levine, Harrison Freeman, Gavi Stulberg, Melina Rymberg and Hart Wener.

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Defining the differences between Canadians and Americans It is just after Canada Day in Canada and Independence Day in the United States. Many speeches have been given about how these two nations have so much in common.

Some, particularly Canadians, walk around tearing their clothes and pulling their hair, worrying that there is no Canadian identity and that we are becoming assimilated Americans.

Well, I have made an amazing discovery. Canadians from across the land and of many ethnicities, languages, cultures and religions, men and women, boys and girls, we all think alike and we all know exactly how we are different from Americans!

Here is my evidence.

For the past five years, I have given workshops that teach about the nature of bias and prejudice. One of the exercises I use is to ask people to finish a few sentences in the most stereotypical way they can.

The two sentences I start with are: “Americans are __________,” and “Canadians are __________.”

I have given this exercise to more than 3,000 people across Canada, from Vancouver to Saint John’s, from many different age groups, from ethnic groups as diverse as Somalis and First Nations, from all the major religions and in professions ranging from school teachers to police to bus drivers, in both English and French.

It fascinates me that all of these people tended to finish these sentences in very similar ways. The two most positive words used about Americans were “proud” and “patriotic.”

The word “rich” was also used to describe Americans.

Humour me, please Rubin Friedman While I suppose those words might be considered to be neutral descriptions, all the other words used to describe Americans are exactly what you know they are; and they’re usually uttered with the kind of guilty giggle you’d expect from a school kid saying a swear word out loud for the first time.

I am not even going to tell you what they were. I want you to imagine them.

Of course, the people taking part in the exercise all tended to show similar patterns in finishing the sentence about Canadians. The worst words used about Canadians were “pushovers” and “wimps.”

A more neutral description of Canadians was “beer drinkers.” All the other words were versions of “polite,” “peaceful,” “tolerant,” “Northerners,” “modest,” etc.

Astonishing, isn’t it?

Somehow, without really talking about it to each other, members of the Caldwell First Nations, and Jewish students in Montreal, said the same things. Policemen in Newfound-

Memories of Jewish Winnipeg rekindled by old NFB film I recently received an email with The Jews of Winnipeg, an interesting 1973 National Film Board (NFB) documentary about Winnipeg’s Jewish heritage. I could look at the film and see three generations beginning with those slightly older than me. It made me think of how my children and grandchildren would look at our family’s heritage in Canada.

Writer and director Bill Davies made the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 the fulcrum for telling the story of the Jewish community. By 1919, the Winnipeg Jewish community was already 40 years old – the first Jewish settlers were three brothers from Alsace who came up from Minnesota in 1878.

The growth of the community began a bit later, fuelled by

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waves of refugees from Russia who settled in or near Winnipeg between 1882 and 1914. During most of this period, Winnipeg was expanding rapidly and labour was in demand.

But, in 1914, the Panama Canal opened and Winnipeg’s glory days, based on the role of the trans-Canada rail network in world trade, soon came to an end.

The Winnipeg Jewish community established itself during a period of overbuilding in anticipation of a future as one of Canada’s largest cities. While immigrant life was not easy, the expanding economy and the need for a labour force allowed the Jewish community to develop its own institutional and social structure through a process of relatively benign neglect – a positive feature for newcomers who remembered too much negative attention by Russian authorities.

During this period, the community was characterized by major organizational development. The multitude of congregations led to strong rabbinical leadership and Winnipeg became known, according to a rabbi interviewed in the film, as “the Jerusalem of Canada.” A Talmud Torah was established in the early 1900s and the Yiddish-language Peretz Shule was one of the earliest Jewish day schools in North America.

The Jewish social movement of the North End was an aspect of the same organizational flowering, for reasons that had to do with the practical needs of the community. An interesting article on radical Jewish women in the North End and their institutional history by Roz Ussiskin tells the story of how the development of strong local institutions to provide social and health services, and adult education, led some women into grassroots politics.

Jewish workers, concentrated in the North End, certainly participated in the 1919 strike and some Jews were among its leaders, including A.A. Heaps, who was later one of the first Labour MPs and one of the originators of the first government old age pensions. But the bulk of the strikers and their leaders were people of British origin, such as Heaps’s colleague, the

land were on the same wavelength as government workers in Winnipeg and public school teachers in Regina. New immigrants in Hamilton were in agreement with francophones from Gatineau, black Canadians from Saint John and Muslims from Ottawa.

Aren’t you glad to know that we are all unified in thinking we are superior to our American cousins? And we all seem to have very similar opinions about exactly how we are different – and better!

Unfortunately, it would be very unCanadian of me to suggest that we celebrate this mysterious force that binds us all together. It sounds rather immodest and not at all quiet and reserved.

And then there is the slight problem of celebrating our prejudices and stereotypes rather than combating them. In fact, as you read this, if you are as Canadian as I am, you are probably feeling the urge to phone your American friends and relatives to apologize.

After all, I generally say, “I’m sorry,” when someone steps on my foot.

According to my Internet research, the adjective most closely associated by Americans with being Canadian is “polite.” Now I will have to add “guilty” to the list of words associated with being Canadian.

So, you Canadian nationalists out there: stop worrying, we have a single Canadian identity that everybody feels.

We’re different from and better than Americans. Just make sure you don’t say that out loud when there are Americans present. It wouldn’t be polite.

Global Shtetl Saul Silverman Rev. J. S. Woodsworth. This was so obvious that one of the subsequent punitive measures was an amendment of the Immigration Act to provide for the deportation of British-born radicals.

At the time of the strike, the anti-strike forces were the ones that falsely emphasized falsely that the strike had been a Bolshevik conspiracy, created by aliens, and the anti-strike Winnipeg Free Press published anti-Semitic cartoons including one of a hook-nosed alien throwing a bomb. Unfortunately, by the 1970s, the anti-Semitic canard of the time had become a centrepiece of the NFB’s interpretation of the history of Winnipeg’s Jewish community.

In my teens, during the 1950s, the Jewish community began migrating out of the North End, going further north to the new modern suburb of West Kildonan, south to River Heights, and, in a few cases, to the previously exclusive Tuxedo.

The South End is now the main population centre of Winnipeg Jewry and the major institutional structure of the community, the Asper Jewish Community Campus, is located on the site of Fort Osborne Barracks, right in the middle of Tuxedo.

While Winnipeg’s Jewish community is much smaller than it was, it is still thriving. What remains the same is the basic dynamic – a place where multiculturalism is the rule.

Websites The Jews of Winnipeg (NFB documentary): tinyurl.com/547675 History of Winnipeg (Wikipedia): tinyurl.com/37wb5j Radical Jewish women in Winnipeg: tinyurl.com/4srtvb Jewish Federation of Winnipeg: jewishwinnipeg.org

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 – Page 23

A murder mystery in Alaska’s ‘temporary’ Jewish homeland The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

By Michael Chabon HarperCollins, 2007 (hardcover) 411 pages Harper Perennial, 2008 (paperback) Early in The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon notes that “even the most casual study of the record ... would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.�

There is a Jewishness to the humour and wisdom of the statement concerning, as it does, both poultry and the state of the world. It comes in response to the story of a chicken turning from the table and confronting the knife-wielding shochet with a proclamation of the advent of the Messiah.

The chicken story is a flight of fancy, an aside to the story of the Sitka District Alaskan Jews, but “strange times to be a Jew� is a recurring theme throughout the novel.

The novel is striking and original in its setting. Inspired by the discovery of a Yiddish phrase book written for travellers in the late-1950s, Chabon wondered where such a book would come in handy. His imaginings gave birth to a world in which the State of Israel collapsed almost immediately after its birth in 1948. A result was a settling of the world’s largest Jewish population, 3.2 million people, on a strip of the Alaskan coast loaned to them by the American government for a period of 60 years. This is the District of Sitka and it animates the entire novel.

Book Review Lawrence Humber The central character is Meyer Landsman, Sitka Central’s celebrated homicide detective. An alcoholic resident of a ramshackle hotel, we meet Landsman when the night manager awakens him after discovering the body of another hotel resident registered under the name of a long-dead chess champion. Both the alias and circumstances of the death embed themselves in Landsman. That the police force for which he works, and the District of Sitka in which he lives, will exist for only another two months does little to alleviate his curiosity. Nor do the other dozen unsolved cases he is expected to clear.

The novel’s first impression is that of detective fiction in the style of Raymond Chandler. Landsman’s boss is his ex-wife.

His partner, Berko Shemets, is a half-Native American, half-Jewish giant who is also Landsman’s cousin. Other unique and memorable characters that riff on the detective genre include the Verbover Rabbi, an ultra-Orthodox organized crime boss; Landsman’s uncle, Hertz, a U.S. government agent and Jewish nationalist; and the wayward Tzaddik Ha-Dor. Chabon’s stark, short sentences are tinged with insightful observation and humour and his dialogue is littered with the

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sort of hard-boiled phrasing that begs to be read in the voices of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney.

When Landsman finds the corpse in his hotel, Chabon writes: “Little bird of a man.

Bright eye, snub beak. Bit of a flush in the cheeks and throat that might have been rosacea. Not a hard case, not a scumbag, not quite a lost soul. A yid not too different from Landsman, maybe, apart from his choice of drug. Clean fingernails. Always a tie and hat.

Read a book with footnotes once.�

It is the sort of passage that reads quickly and rhythmically and reveals information about both the victim and the detective While the plot follows Landsman’s effort to catch a killer, Chabon also uses its unique circumstances to give the novel resonance and context beyond the detective genre. Early on, he presents the coming Reversion, the time when the district is to be returned to the state of Alaska thus undoing the lives the Jews have created on bor-

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rowed land. This uncertainty informs much of the story. The Jews of Sitka have built industry. They produce Shoyfer cellphones; and have a hierarchy of religious gangsters and their own police force. The relationship between the Jews and their Native American neighbours is tense and punctuated with expansionism and occasional bouts of violence. Chabon creates a believable world with enough parallels to reality that the issues are ripe for examination.

As readers, we follow Landsman’s investigation and are welcomed into his thoughts. But Chabon also challenges us with allegory and metaphor to stand, as Berko Shemets does, both inside, and outside, the culture and examine what we see as the clues to the mystery.

The questions of statehood and identity are never explicit, but they lead us to think about other things once we have discovered who is waiting for Landsman around the next corner.

Lawrence Humber is a Carleton University graduate and freelance writer currently working on his own fiction.

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Revival of a summertime classic During the 1980s, pasta salads popped up at every summer gathering I attended.

They were popular for several reasons. They could be made ahead of time. They could be served cold or at room temperature. They are relatively easy to prepare and they travel well.

Soon, they started showing up at supermarket deli counters and that’s when things started to go downhill. Most of those commercially prepared pasta salads suffered from the following sins: overcooked and under-salted pasta, too much pasta and not enough other ingredients, too much dressing or nasty bottled dressing and a lack of fresh seasonal ingredients.

It’s time to revive this summertime classic.

When cooking your pasta, always salt the cooking water

Spaghetti with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Asiago and Pine Nuts 1-pound box of spaghetti (white, whole wheat or multi-grain, your choice!)

1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes, packed in oil 2 tablespoons oil from sun dried tomatoes 2 tablespoons olive oil 12 ounces Asiago cheese, grated 1 pint grape tomatoes, quartered 1/3 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and quartered 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 12 fresh basil leaves, cut into julienne strips 1 cup toasted pine nuts In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook spaghetti until al dente. Drain and run under cold water. Drain very well and place in large mixing bowl.

Using the food processor, purée the sun-dried tomatoes, tomato oil and olive oil. Pour purée over spaghetti and use your hands to mix and ensure that all the noodles are evenly coated.

Add cheese, tomatoes, olives and salt and pepper.

Mix well.

Just before serving, mix in fresh basil and pine nuts.

If you add basil too soon, it will turn black. If you add pine nuts too early, they will lose their crunch.

well. The Italians say the pasta cooking water should taste like the sea, so use at least two tablespoons of kosher salt for a big pot. If the box says to cook the pasta for 12 minutes, begin tasting at 10 minutes. You want the pasta to be al dente.

It’s summer and the markets are brimming with fresh produce so do not use canned or frozen veggies. And finally, please resist the temptation to use bottled salad dressing.

Making your own dressing is fast and easy and will taste so much better.

Here are two of my favourite pasta salad recipes. All will be gobbled up very quickly and, if there are any leftovers, they will still be delicious the next day.

The first recipe is for spaghetti with sun-dried tomatoes, Asiago and pine nuts. During the summer of 1987, I made a variation of this salad everyday. I was working at Dinah’s Cupboard, a gourmet take-out store in Toronto and it was our top selling pasta salad.

I have adapted the salad from the original recipe by puréeing the sun-dried tomatoes so that every noodle will be coated with their deliciousness. I also added chopped

Cindy Feingold fresh basil, pitted Kalamata olives and freshly chopped tomatoes. I served it at every family event and soon my sisters and sister-in-law began serving it at all their family events. It wasn’t long before we were all sick of this salad.

By 1991, no one wanted to even look at it ever again.

However, much time has passed, and as the saying goes, “Everything old is new again.” I served it again last summer and everyone said, “Wow, this is delicious. Why did we ever stop making this?”

The second recipe comes from Rachael Ray’s “30 Minute Meals” on the Food Network. It uses stuffed tortellini as the pasta. I have made it with spinach-ricotta tortellini and everyone loved it. You can now find whole wheat or multi-grain stuffed pastas to bump up the nutritional content of your salad.

Spinach Artichoke Pasta Salad This is Rachael Ray’s recipe from “30 Minute Meals.”

Roasted red peppers are available in a jar. I buy an excellent brand, Krinos, at Nicastros. If you find the flavour of raw onion too strong, soak the chopped red onion in ice water for about 30 minutes, then squeeze all the water out of them and add to salad.

1 package fresh tortellini (ricotta or spinach or whatever you can find) 1/2 pound fresh baby spinach 1 (15-ounce) can baby artichoke hearts in water, drained and chopped 1 red roasted pepper, drained and chopped 1/2 small red onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, finely minced 1 teaspoon kosher salt zest of 1 lemon 2 teaspoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves, chopped 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, coarsely chopped Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add about 2 tablespoons kosher salt. Add tortellini and cook for about 3-4 minutes, until pasta is tender and the tortellini are floating like buoys. Drain tortellini, and then cool the cooked pasta by spreading them out on a large cookie sheet in a single layer.

Coarsely chop baby spinach. Combine with chopped artichokes, roasted red peppers and red onion.

In a medium bowl, whisk together garlic, salt, lemon zest, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, olive oil and pepper.

Add pasta and sun-dried tomatoes to the chopped vegetables. Dress salad and gently toss. Serve or refrigerate for several hours.

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A disappointing anthology of essays

by Canadian Jewish women Living Legacies: A Collection of Inspirational Contemporary Canadian Jewish Women Researched and edited

by Liz Pearl PK Press Softcover, 2007 260 pages

Book Review Nicola Hamer

It contains submissions by several women I already admire. Ottawa’s Jacquelin Holzman; Sharon Trostin Hampson of the singing group Sharon, Lois and Bram; and Rabbi Elyse Goldstein come immediately to mind. And it covers such a wide range of experiences that I was sure I’d enjoy it.

I didn’t.

I read essay after essay with a growing sense of disappointment. Perhaps I’m the only reader who feels this way, as the book’s first few pages contain advance praise, from rabbis to editors, who are all effusive in their delight.

It took me a while to pinpoint where my disappointment lay. These are accomplished women, with unique life experiences about which to write. Then I realized it lay in the word “inspirational.” I suppose, to some degree, that inspiration lies in the inspired; one can either find a story inspiring or not.

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Of course, this was not always the case. There are some wonderful pieces in this book. For example,

When I was asked to review the book Living Legacies: A Collection of Inspirational Contemporary Jewish Women, I was delighted. As a Canadian Jewish feminist, I am aware of how little writing centres on people who are Canadians, Jews and women.

This book contains essays from a wide range of women. There are those who were born in Canada and, true to Canada’s immigrant experience, many who have chosen to make Canada their home. While fully half of the writers are now living in Toronto, enough of them write about their experiences elsewhere – growing up in Europe during the Second World War, living in Israel, the United States, the Mediterranean – that it doesn’t seem to be overly Torontocentric. The oldest writers are in their 80s, the youngest is only 16 and they range from secular Jews to religiously Orthodox.

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Rachael Turkienicz’s struggle to study Talmud and Midrash and the obvious joy she finds in that struggle absolutely fits the promise of inspiration found in the book’s title.

Because any book like this is a welcome addition to writings on Canadian Jews, and because there are many interesting stories, and even some gems of insight to be found between its covers, I was hesitant to give it a negative review. But this book was a disappointment.

It does not live up to its promise.

I am sure there are those who would enjoy reading the stories in Living Legacies. The key to that enjoyment is to ignore the title, skip past the accolades and come to the book itself with absolutely no expectations.

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• A disabled woman about to undergo surgery needs help de-cluttering her home to make room for a hospital bed.

• JFS has recently lost two KMOW drivers. Routes: Hunt Club/Riverside and West End. Fridays until end of April.

• An elderly lady who sews would love to meet someone with similar interests to spend time together.

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• Transportation: Drivers are always needed to transport seniors to and from medical appointments, social opportunities, grocery shopping, and the like.

• Kosher Meals on Wheels: Drivers who can deliver on short notice are always at a premium, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

• Friendly visiting: Requests come in constantly from family members needing a visitor for a shut-in. Weekly, bi-weekly or ad-hoc opportunities are waiting to be filled by someone with a little time and a lot of heart. Chat over coffee, take in a show, go bowling … the opportunities are only as limited as your imagination.

• TeleShalom: We are currently seeking volunteers to place weekday morning reassurance calls to isolated seniors. Each call takes approximately 2-3 minutes and can be done from your home, office or cell phone.

• Presenters: JFS hosts several monthly seniors’ luncheon programs and is always looking for specialists, artists, musicians, and others who can present for about 45 minutes in exchange for a hot lunch in great company.

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• ESL and Homework Club: New Canadians, who need practice speaking English, help with homework, or assistance deciphering Canadian cultural nuances are always looking for mentors.

Please note: Mileage incurred by volunteers is reimbursed by JFS.

THE BESS AND MOE GREENBERG FAMILY HILLEL LODGE • Don’t get the summertime blues! Spend time with us at concerts, BBQs, Wii tournaments and bingo.

• Thirsty? Serve drinks to residents every day at 11:30 am. A half hour gets you lots of smiles!

• Free on Fridays? Oneg Shabbat every week at 10:30 am and bingo at 2:00 pm – come join us!

• Want cashier experience in a friendly atmosphere? Come to Hillel Lodge at lunch (11:45 am to 1:30 pm Monday to Friday).

• Student Special: Your gain is our gain: Do your community hours helping our residents! Daily or weekly, at a time that suits you! University Students welcome (please note: children under the age of 14 require adult accompaniment).

• Culture maven? Accompany our residents to museums, concerts and plays! (Wednesday and Thursday afternoons) • Tuesday Special: Enjoy our special events every week at 2:15 pm!

• Shopping experts? Have Fun! Accompany residents to shopping at a mall (Monday mornings)!

• Special mitzvah anyone? Bring a resident to Shabbos services (Saturdays at 9:15 am) and enjoy the fantastic Oneg with friends! Great cholent!

• Post-retirement planning? Put Hillel Lodge volunteering in your plan! Residents welcome visitors, program assistance, all kinds of options!

Pick a day, a time of day, a type of event – whatever suits your schedule! Try it out now!

• Community hours in the summer? High school students, get your hours completed by volunteering at Hillel Lodge during the summer months!

To inquire further, please call 613-728-3900 ext. 191 or email judithw@hillel-ltc.com Students welcome (please note: children under the age of 14 require adult accompaniment)

From an Israeli pop sensation to a Yiddish swing revival Yael Naim & David Donatien Yael Naim & David Donatien Warner Music yaelweb.com French-Israeli singer Yael Naim’s second CD – co-credited in smaller lettering to collaborator David Donatien – was already a hit in Israel and France when Apple picked her breezy song, “New Soul,” for its MacBook Air commercial.

Naim was born in France and grew up in Israel after her family made aliyah when she was four. She began her singing career while serving in the IDF and, thanks to the massive exposure of the ubiquitous Mac ad, became the first Israeli singer to score a Top 10 hit in North America.

Naim sings some of her songs in English and some in Hebrew. Sometimes, she alternates the two languages within the same song and, occasionally, adds a verse or two in French. Naim’s music incorporates elements of folk, jazz and electronica, but I think her strongest influence is middle-to-late-period Beatles albums when they were experimenting with words, melody and recording techniques to make something new and different.

For the most part, it’s a quiet album. Some of the songs, like “Lonely” and “Lacholm” are sad-sounding. Others, including “New Soul” and “Paris,” give off a happier vibe.

Listening, I enjoy hearing her Israeli-accented voice sing in English, but she does sound more natural on the Hebrew songs. My favourite is “7 Baboker,” a celebration of the early morning with a melody reminiscent of Michael Smith’s musical setting of Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem, “Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias.”

Paul Shapiro featuring the Ribs and Brisket Revue Essen Tzadik tzadik.com Back in the 1930s and ‘40s, when Jewish musicians like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw were making their marks in the world of jazz, some of the hippest singers around, including Cab Calloway, Slim Gaillard and Peggy Lee, were incorporating Yiddishisms and Yiddish songs into their acts. Also in the ‘40s, Catskill acts like Mickey Katz, a great klezmer clarinetist and comic song parodist, and the Barry Sisters were creating a brand of Yiddish swing music.

Saxophonist Paul Shapiro and his Ribs and Brisket Revue, a tight band that mixes swing, bebop and old school rhythm and blues, and which features a couple of great singers in Babi Floyd and Cilla Owens, bring us back to that era.

The whole album is lots of fun. Highlights include Owens’ take on Sophie Tucker’s Yiddish/English version of “Mama Goes Where Papa Goes,” a classic blues song from the 1920s, and Shapiro and Floyd’s hilarious comic dialogue on the Barton Brothers’ “Tzouris.”

My favourite track is Floyd’s jivey version of Gaillard’s “Matzoh Balls and Gefilte Fish.” The whole band cooks – pun intended – on the number with great playing by pianist Brian Mitchell, drummer Tony Lewis, bassist Booker King, and, of course, Shapiro on sax.

Brian Bender and Little Shop of Horas Eyn Velt Face the Music littleshopofhoras.com On Eyn Velt, Brian Bender blends Jewish-rooted music with African music, reggae, calypso, jazz, Brazilian sam-

Music Michael Regenstreif bas, Turkish and Arabic music to create pieces rich in rhythm and melody to showcase the instrumental virtuosity of Bender and such collaborators as Alicia Svigals, one of klezmer music’s finest fiddlers; trumpeter Frank London of the Klezmatics; bassist Stuart Brotman of Brave Old World; and saxophonist Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers. Bender plays trombone, melodica, trumpet, accordion, piano, organ, djembe, baritone horn, keyboards and various percussion instruments.

Among Bender’s original compositions are “Der Gazebo,” which combines a Jewish-sounding melody with Turkish and Arabic rhythms, and “El Judio,” an eight-minute klezmer-meets-Latin jazz tour de force.

Bender also completely transforms some already-familiar tunes. He gives “Papirosn,” a Yiddish song adapted from a traditional Bulgarian melody, a Brazilian samba arrangement that’s propelled into full-throttle carnival party mode by the end of the tune. “Avadim Hayenu,” the traditional Hebrew Passover song, is transformed into reggae, while a traditional Chassidic nigun, that Bender titles “Long Island Groove,” becomes a calypso celebration for trombone, steel drums (actually played on Bender’s keyboard) and percussion. Great stuff.

She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble Sandanski’s Chicken Arc Music Productions shekoyokh.co.uk The She’koyokh Klezmer Ensemble, eight superb musicians from London, England, are guaranteed to delight anyone who loves to hear the Old World klezmer tunes of Eastern Europe mixed with strains of Balkan, Greek and Turkish music played in a celebratory fashion. There’s lots of fun to be had listening to them romp through familiar klez fare like “Nikolaev Bulgar” or applying their skills to the seemingly-impossible 22/8 rhythm of “Sandansko Horo.”

While most of the tracks are instrumentals, they end the CD with the hilariously funny “Wedding Song,” whose satirical lyrics describe a typical wedding party from the perspective of the musicians on the bandstand.

Music note: My favourite among of all of Ottawa’s festivals is coming up next month. The Ottawa Folk Festival takes place Thursday to Sunday, August 14 to 17 at Britannia Park.

Long before I moved to Ottawa to work at the Bulletin, I was coming here annually for the folk festival.

Among the local artists playing this is year is the sublime vocal trio, Finest Kind, which includes Shelley Posen, who I profiled in the Bulletin in December.

Other artists I’m most looking forward to seeing include Odetta, the legendary African American folk and blues singer who is still singing gloriously at 78, and the Duhks, a dynamic Winnipeg band led by Leonard Podolak, who’ve integrated all manners of folk and roots styles into their fresh-sounding approach. Visit ottawafolk.org for complete information or call 613-230-8234 for tickets.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – July 21, 2008 – Page 27

FOUNDATION DONATIONS The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation acknowledges with thanks contributions to the following funds as of June 30, 2008.

A gift forever

Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation Donations To make a donation and/or send a tribute card, call Carolene Preap (613-798-4696 ext. 232) e-mail: cpreap@jewishottawa.com • website: www.ojcf.ca

ABELSON FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Tracy Kronick and Al Abelson.

FRANCEEN AND STANLEY AGES ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Linny Blauer; by Blima and Zeev Nemirov and family; by Jessica and Marc Borenstein; by Sol and Zelaine Shinder; and by David and Sar Lipnowski.

Zeev Vered by Fran and Stan Ages.

Mazal Tov to: Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel and family.

Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Fran and Stan Ages.

Mayer Alvo on receiving the Shem Tov Community Volunteer

award by Fran and Stan Ages.

JOSEPH AGES FAMILY FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Mike and Lorraine Barbeau; by Richard Goldstein and family; by Dorothy Nadolny; by Elias Kazan; by Friends at Rogers Cable; by Irvin Hoffman; by Bill and Jane James;

by Bev Friedman; by Leema Magidson and family; by Enid and Jeff Gould and family; by Deborah Magidson; by Gilmour Psychological Services; by Marilyn Waserman and family; by Arlene and Mel Schwey and family; by Barry Appel; by Steven and Lisa Majewski and family; by Zahava and David Bloomstone; by Mary and Murray Macy and family; by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor and family; by Len and Barbara Farber; by Sandy Marchello; by the Perzow family; by Alan Freed; by Chick and Rose Taylor; by Mitchell Bellman and Nicola Hamer; by Sunny and John Tavel; and by June and Bill Joe. Anniversary wishes to: Sandy and Murray Ages by Nickie Ages.

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Join us in building our community by supporting these local agencies SHIRLEY AND SHIER BERMAN FUND FOR OTTAWA JEWISH ARCHIVES In memory of: Zeev Vered by Shirley and Shier Berman and family.

GREENBERG FAMILIES LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Zeev Vered by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Mazal Tov to: Stephen and Gail Victor on the birth of their grandson

by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Mayer Alvo on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Cindy Feingold and Roger Greenberg.

Birthday wishes to: Manny Gluck on his special birthday by Mark and Nina Dover.

In recognition of: Sheli Braun’s work as principal of Temple Israel Religious School by Avram, Sarah, Leonard and Diana Kaan.

HILLEL ACADEMY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Warren an Linda Melamed; by Rena, Mitchell, Tara and Kayla Sabloff.

Sam Kreisman by Irvin Hoffman.

Joseph Ages by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

Esther Shiloni by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

Zeev Vered by Cally and Sid Kardash.

Max Feldman by Cally and Sid Kardash.

Return to good health to: Jack Weinman by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

Mazal Tov to: Stuart Ages on his achievement by Sharon and Gary Steinberg and family; and by Laurie Nadolny and Bill Green and family.

Congratulations to: Irv Osterer on receiving the Director’s Citation Award and the Capital Educators’ Award by Betty and Sid Finkelman.

Thank you to: Noga Reiss; Brian Lamb; Stéphane Chinanni; Heather Graham; Bethany Goldstein; Rabbi Dovid Berger; Rabbi Yehuda Simes; Vivi Fiszman; Lucy Lightbown; Fiona MacKintosh and Ruthie Liebovitch by Riva Levitan and Richard Roth.

HILLEL LODGE LEGACY FUND Mazal Tov to: Ingrid Levitz on completion of her term as Chair of Hillel Lodge by Bernie and Donna Dolansky.

In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Adrianne Shabsove and family.

Joseph Ages by Adrianne and Chuck Shabsove and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Arnie and Sarah Swedler on their 50th wedding anniversary by Arlene, Perry and Laura Medicoff.

Birthday wishes to: Manny Gluck on his special birthday by Joan and Henry Bloom.

JEWISH YOUTH LIBRARY OF OTTAWA ENDOWMENT FUND Best wishes to: Jennifer and Ronald Vered on the birth of their son by

Joan and Henry Bloom.

Thank you to: Mark Wolynetz by Josef and Devorah Caytak.

Anniversary wishes to: Sara and Arnie Swedler on their 50th wedding anniversary by Yosef and Devorah Caytak.

In memory of: Max Feldman by Yosef and Devorah Caytak.

Zeev Vered by Yosef and Devorah Caytak.

DAVID “THE BEAR” KARDASH CAMP B’NAI BRITH MEMORIAL FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Margie Kardash by Dorothy Nadolny.

OTTAWA JEWISH CEMETERIES ZICHARON FUND Congratulations to: Mayer Alvo on receiving the Shem Tov Community Volunteer award by Ian, Randi, Jonathan, Matthew and Adam Sherman.

OTTAWA POST JEWISH WAR VETERANS FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Moe Cardash by Muriel and Horace Beilin.

OTTAWA TORAH INSTITUTE TORAH EDUCATION FUND Thank you to: Issie Scarowsky by Debbie and David Fischman.

MARTIN GLATT PARLIAMENT LODGE B’NAI BRITH PAST PRESIDENTS’ FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Joy and Eric Weisbloom; and by the Ottawa B’nai Brith Bowling League.

GABY SASSOON FOR VICTIMS OF TERROR IN ISRAEL MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Archie Talor by Gloria, Martin, Shanna and Serenna Taller.

Congratulations to: Sandy Bencze on her graduation by the Fiszman family.

SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by the Ganon Preschool.

Joseph Ages by the Ganon Preschool.

Robin and Michelle McGarry’s father by the Ganon Preschool.

SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIP FUND In appreciation to: Rabbi and Mrs. Popky by Edie Landau.

Bev Hymes and Herb Vandermeulen by Mark and Cindi Resnick and family.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by the Rymberg family.

Joseph Ages by the Rymberg family.

Joel Raskin’s father by Mark and Cindi Resnick and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Joany and Andy Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Mark and Cindi Resnick and family.

Sam and Susan Firestone on their 20th wedding anniversary by Mark and Cindi Resnick and family.

SARA AND ZEEV VERED ISRAEL CULTURAL PROGRAM FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Ian, Randi, Jonathan, Matthew and Adam Sherman; by Penni and Assaf Namer; and by Michael Gennis and family.

SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE ENDOWMENT FUND Congratulations to: Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Ian, Randi, Jonathan, Matthew and Adam Sherman.

Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Ian, Randi, Jonathan, Matthew and Adam Sherman.

Yasher Koach to: Abe Nadrich on the anniversary of his 50 years of service to the JFO by Ian, Randi, Jonathan, Matthew and Adam Sherman.

TORAH ACADEMY OF OTTAWA TORAH EDUCATION FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Rabbi Zischa and Lauren Shaps.

AKIVA EVENING HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND MENDEL AND VALERIE GOOD HOLOCAUST CONTINUING EDUCATION FUND HY HOCHBERG MEMORIAL LECTURE FUND JEWISH COMMUNITY CEMETERY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUND JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FUND JEWISH STUDENTS ASSOCIATION - HILLEL ADINA BEN PORAT MACHON SARAH TORAH EDUCATION FUND OTTAWA JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY FUND OTTAWA MODERN JEWISH SCHOOL FUND DORIS BRONSTEIN TALMUD TORAH AFTERNOON SCHOOL FUND RAMBAM MAIMONIDES JEWISH CONTINUITY FUND JEWISH MEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE FUND SOLOWAY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE YOUTH SERVICES FUND YITZHAK RABIN HIGH SCHOOL FUND IN MEMORY OF EVA WINTHROP

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS Birthday wishes to: Fran Ages on her special birthday by Nickie Ages.

Amy Vera Glick by Nickie Ages.

Mazal Tov to: Stephen and Gail Victor on the birth of their grandson Dillon

by Nickie Ages.

Andrea and Mike Ross on the birth of their son Dillon by Nickie Ages.

AJA 50+ ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Wilma Pinkus by Creative Connections.

Robet Steklasa by Creative Connections.

Haiyan Zhang by AJA 50+.

Jason and Sabrina Bercovitch by AJA 50+.

Robin Riddihough by AJA 50+.

Linda Leng by AJA 50+.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Norman and Elaine Wolfish.

MARY AND ISRAEL (AL) ALLICE MEMORIAL FUND Congratulations to: Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Beverly and Irving Swedko.

Anniversary wishes to: Arnie and Sarah Swedlove on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Beverly and Irving Swedko.

APPOTIVE FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Howard and Sharron Appotive and David and Sharon Appotive and families.

Speedy recovery to: Elayne Schacter by David, Sharon, Ryan, Jaye and Brody Appotive.

ANNE AND LOUIS ARRON MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Daphne and Stanley Arron.

Zeev Vered by Daphne and Stanley Arron.

Sheldon Goldberg by Daphne and Stanley Arron.

RICKI AND BARRY BAKER ENDOWMENT FUND Congratulations to: Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Barry and Ricki Baker and family.

Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Barry and Ricki Baker and family.

Mayer Alvo on receiving the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Service award by Barry and Ricki Baker and family.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Barry and Ricki Baker and family.

Joe Ages by Barry and Ricki Baker and family.

Mazal Tov to: Alyce and Allan Baker on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Ricki and Barry Baker and family.

Helen and Rick Zipes on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Ricki and Barry Baker and family.

MYRNA AND NORMAN BARWIN FOUNDATION OF THE PINCHAS ZUKERMAN MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND Mazal Tov to: Mayer Alvo on being the recipient of the Shem Tov Community Volunteer award by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Stuart Ages on being the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Arnie Vered on being the recipient of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Jacques Shore on being elected Chair of the Board of Governors of Carleton University by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Muriel Korngold Wexler on the birth of Sophie by Norm and Myrna Barwin Ellen and Dwayne Wright on the birth of their granddaughter, Sophia by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Alyce and Allan Baker on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Speedy recovery to: Ethel Taylor by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Joseph Ages by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Zeev Vered by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Nockey Barwin by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Congratulations to: Lawrence Greenspon on being honoured by United Way by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

Janet Yale on being awarded Volunteer of the Year by Norm and Myrna Barwin.

CAYLA AND MICHAEL BAYLIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

OTTAWA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION Donations can be made online at

www.OJCF.ca

As my fathers planted for me before I was born So do I plan for those who will come after me – The Talmud An Endowment Fund recognizes that the strengthening of our local Jewish community must continue.

Your gift of establishing a Fund will make a difference!

It is a promise to your children and grandchildren that our community will always be strong. It is a promise that our Jewish values will always be preserved.

Your Gift Is Forever!

Lynne Cogan by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

Chris Hines by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

Congratulations to: Mayer Alvo on receiving the Shem Tov Community Volunteer Service award by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

Abe Feinstein on being awarded the Law Society Medal of Upper Canada by Cayla and Michael Baylin.

JENNIE AND MORRIS BAYLIN MEMORIAL FUND Speedy recovery to: Joel Dubrow by Betty Baylin.

ISAAC AND HELEN BEILES ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Herb Beiles by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

IRVING AND ESTHER BELLMAN MEMORIAL FUND In honour of: Vivian Rakoff receiving an Honourary Degree from University of Toronto by Joyce and Seymour Bellman.

Anniversary to: Edith and Maurice Bellman on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Joyce and Seymour Bellman; and by Clair Krantzberg.

In memory of: Moe Kugler by Joyce Melamed.

Birthday wishes to: Seymour Bellman on his 70th birthday by Clair Krantzberg.

CLAIRE AND IRVING BERCOVITCH ENDOWMENT FUND Thinking of: Ethel Taylor by Claire and Irving Bercovitch.

ALEX AND MOLLIE BETCHERMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Alex Betcherman, a wonderful father by Joy Rosenstein, Bonnie Greenberg and Ronald Singer.

Max Rosenstein, a wonderful father by Joy Rosenstein, Bonnie Greenberg and Ronald Singer.

Anniversary wishes to: Mr. and Mrs. M. Barish by Aunt Joy and Bonnie.

SAM AND ANNE BROZOVSKY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Vicky Shacter by Roslyn, Steven, Bobby and David Wollock.

Max Feldman by Roslyn, Steven, Bobby and David Wollock.

Esther Shiloni by Roslyn, Steven, Bobby and David Wollock.

JESSICA AND KEVIN CANTOR FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Rose Taylor on her special birthday by Kevin and Jessica Cantor.

DONALD AND LEAH CHODIKOFF ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Lou Soberman by Leah Chodikoff.

ARTHUR AND LINDA COGAN FUND FOR YOUNG WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Ethel Taylor by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Linda Cogan by Marilyn and Dan Kimmel.

Mazal Tov to: Pam and Yossi Iny on the birth of their granddaughter, Sophie Leah by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Gail and Stephen Victor on the birth of their grandson by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Victor and Laraine Kaminsky on the birth of their twins by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Birthday wishes to: Susan Denberg on her special birthday by Linda and Archie Cogan.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Joseph Ages by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Sheldon Laskow by Linda and Archie Cogan.

Speedy recovery to: Nicola Hamer by Linda and Arthur Cogan.

HOWARD, JEFFREY, ANDREW, MICHAEL, GREGORY AND ZACHARY COGAN FUND In memory of: Lynne Cogan by Chick and Rose Taylor.

Mazal Tov to: David and Debbie Weinstein on the Bar Mitzvah of their son Daniel by Fred and Lisa Cogan.

For more information on creating your legacy and achieving your charitable goals through the OJCF, contact the Foundation Associate, at 613-798-4696 extension 252 or email info@ojcf.ca • www.OJCF.ca

JACK AND SARAH COGAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Rhona and Leonard Cogan.

Zeev Vered by Rhona and Leonard Cogan.

Max Feldman by Rhona and Leonard Cogan.

Continued good health to: Dorothy Nadolny by Rhona and Leonard Cogan.

SID AND BARBARA COHEN COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Sid and Barbara Cohen on their new home and on their wedding anniversary by Norman and Elaine Wolfish.

ISRAEL AND POLLY COHEN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joe Ages by Anna and Ronny Cantor.

Anniversary wishes to: Dr. and Mrs. Joe Greenberg on their 50th wedding anniversary by Anna and Ronny Cantor.

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Cohen on their 30th wedding anniversary by Anna and Ronny Cantor.

JOAN AND MICHAEL COMAY MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Jill Stern and family on the Bat Mitzvah of her granddaughter, Mikayla Young by Fred and Lisa Cogan and family.

SANDI AND EDDY COOK ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Sandi, Eddy and Sammy Cook.

Zeev Vered by Sandi and Eddy Cook and family.

Joseph Ages by Sandi and Eddy Cook and family.

Speedy recovery to: Elizabeth Szirtes by Sandi and Eddy Cook and family.

Congratulations to: Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Sandi and Eddy Cook and family.

NATHAN AND REBA DIENER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Barbara, Joel, Jessie, Joshua and Michael Diener.

Zeev Vered by John and Dayra Diener and family.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Steve Greenberg by Joel and Barb Diener.

Anniversary wishes to: Fred and Esther Brauer on their 50th wedding anniversary by Reba Diener.

JEFFREY AND LOIS EISEN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Max Feldman by Jeff and Lois Eisen and family.

Zeev Vered by Jeff and Lois Eisen and family.

Sintra Singh by Jeff and Lois Eisen and family.

LOU EISENBERG CAMP B’NAI BRITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by the Gennis family.

CYNTHIA AND ABE ENGEL ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Cynthia Engel and family.

Zeev Vered by Cynthia Engel.

KATIE ELLEN FARBER MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Mary and Izzie Farber by Len, Barbara, Steven and Michael Farber.

Best wishes to: Jon Pivnick on his retirement by Mary and Izzie Farber.

ELLEN AND RAHAMIM FATHI ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Ray and Ellen Fathi and family.

MOSHE AND LILY FEIG ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: The Feig family Golda Chaya Feig, Sarah Feig, Bayla Feig, Asher Feig and Idit Feig by Lily Feig.

SHMUEL AND MALCA FEIG ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Barry Farber by Len, Barbara, Steven and Michael Farber.

MARJORIE AND MICHAEL FELDMAN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Max Feldman by Rick and Helen Zipes; by Len and Barbara Farber; by Sherri, Jack, Dan and Lisa Torjman; and by Sol and Zelaine Shinder.

Zeev Vered by Marjorie and Michael Feldman.

Anniversary wishes to: Norman and Elaine Wolfish on their 45th wedding anniversary

by Marjorie and Michael Feldman.

Mazal Tov to: Mort and Fran Ross on their son Jonathan’s marriage to Jessie-Sierra by Marjorie and Michael Feldman.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS HARRY FINE MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Issie Rose on being honoured by Beth Shalom by Barbara and Louis Fine.

Joseph Ages by Diane and Allen Abramson.

Mazal Tov to: Elana Hochstadter on her acceptance to medical school by Diane and Allen Abramson.

JOSEPH AND HELEN FILELR ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Joseph and Helen Filler by Shelley and Andre Engel and family.

GREENBERG, HUTT, KONICK ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Libby and Stan Katz on their granddaughter’s engagement by Rose and Morrie Konick.

JOSHUA HILLEL FINN ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Martin and Shirley Levey by Joshua Finn.

BEATRICE AND SAMUEL GREENBERG FAMILY FUND Continued good health to: Stephen Greenberg by Aunt Bea, Janice and Arlene.

Congratulations to: Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg on the marriage of their daughter Jessica to Rob by Aunt Bea, Janice and Arlene.

SHARON AND PAUL FINN ENDOWMENT FUND Speedy recovery to: Louis Weiner by Sharon and Paul Finn and family.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Sharon and Paul Finn and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Joany and Andy Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Sharon and Paul Finn and family.

SAM AND SUSAN FIRESTONE ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Sam and Susan Firestone.

Zeev Vered by Sam and Susan Firestone.

Congratulations to: Jessica Firestone on her accomplishments and graduation by the Baileys.

ALAN FREED FAMILY FUND In memory of: Jean Zackon by Alan Freed.

ABE AND SYLVIA FREEMAN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Josh Siegel by Sylvia Freeman and family.

ROZ AND STEVEN FREMETH FAMILY FUND In honour of: Steve Fremeth for his professional and community achievements by Max and Rena Cohen.

In memory of: Max Feldman by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

Lily Strauss by Steve and Roz Fremeth.

Sintra Singh by Sherri and Jack Torjman; and by Helaine and Jack Gould and family.

ALFRED AND KAYSA FRIEDMAN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

Zeev Vered by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

Birthday wishes to: Simmy Gardner on his special birthday by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

Manny Gluck on his 80th birthday by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Dorothy Nadolny by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

Norman Zagerman by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

Anniversary wishes to: Sid and Barbara Cohen by Alfred and Kaysa Friedman.

GILBOA/MAOZ FAMILY FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Tal Gilboa, Paz, Eitan and Hadar Maoz.

Thank you to: Carole Starkman; Eileen Gallant; Liz Petigorsky by Tal Gilboa.

STAN AND LIBBY GLUBE FAMILY FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Bev, Bryan, Alison and Rob Glube.

Zeev Vered by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Sala Ickowicz by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Aron Irlicht by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Birthday wishes to: Larry Noble on his special birthday by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Shifra Knoble on her special birthday by Arlene and Norman Glube.

Speedy recovery to: Elayne Schacter by Arlene and Norman Glube; and by Sylvia and Myer Goldin.

JACK AND GERT GOLDSTEIN MEMORIAL FUND Speedy recovery to: Dorothy Nadolny by Diane and Allen Abramson.

Birthday wishes to: Jeff Krupski on his special birthday by Diane and Allen Abramson.

In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Diane and Allen Abramson.

FRITZI AND MAX (CHIEF) GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Murray, Linda, Benjamin and Amanda Greenberg.

Sam Kreisman by Murray, Linda, Benjamin and Amanda Greenberg.

Bella Gallaman by Ellen and Sam Gelman and Murray and Linda Greenberg.

LAURA AND MILTON GREENBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION In memory of: Joseph Ages by Laura Greenberg.

MICHAEL GREENBERG MEMORIAL FUND Speedy recovery to: Stephen Greenberg by Patrick Whelan; and by John and Leslie Booth.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Steve, Joss, Lee, Jessica and Emma Greenberg.

REBECCA AND CHARLES GUSSMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Natalie and Tom Gussman.

HY AND PAULINE HOCHBERG ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam by Pauline Hochberg, Brian and Lisa and family.

Zeev Vered by Pauling Hochberg.

Speedy recovery to: Norman Zagerman by Pauline Hochberg.

Sally Levitan by Pauline Hochberg.

Thinking of: Ethel Taylor by Pauline Hochberg.

RHEA AND JEFF HOCHSTADTER FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Diane Abramson on her special birthday by Rhea, Jeff, Elana and Lorne Hochstadter.

DOROTHY AND HY HYMES ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

Congratulations to: Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

Dr. Susan Lieff on receiving the Steve Herbert Award for Excellence in Education by Dorothy and Hy Hymes.

ROSE AND MAXWELL KALMAN ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Max Kalman on his 102nd birthday by Fran and Tully Yagod; and by Elsa Wendman and family.

PINNEY AND LIBBY KARDASH ENDOWMENT FUND Speedy recovery to: Ethel Taylor by Cally and Sid Kardash.

Anniversary wishes to: Saul and Pam Ross on their 50th wedding anniversary by Cally and Sid Kardash.

ARTHUR AND SARAH KIMMEL MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel.

Joseph Ages by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Mazal Tov to: Alyce and Allan Baker on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

JACOB AND ROSE LANDAU MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Jacob Landau, a dear father-in-law by Edie Landau.

SHARON KOFFMAN ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND In memory of: Dennis Murphy by Sandra Zagon.

GOLDMAN/LANDAU FAMILY FUND In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Michael Landau and Faye Goldman.

Sam Kreisman by Michael Landau and Faye Goldman.

Zeev Vered by Michael Landau and Faye Goldman.

MELVIN KOSTOVE MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

Moe Kugler by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

Max Feldman by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

Mazal Tov to: Irv Osterer on receiving the Director’s Citation by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

Marty and Ellie Black on the engagement of their daughter, Andrea by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

In honour of: Jon Pivnick’s retirement by Valerie, Mark and Lorne.

Sintra Singh by Valerie, Mark, Lorne and Butch.

KRANTZBERG KRANE FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Julia Krane on her 50th birthday by Myra, Sam, Josh and Justin Krane.

Linda Joy Greenberg on her special birthday by Myra, Sam, Josh and Justin Krane.

Mazal Tov to: The Moses family on Robbie’s graduation from Ottawa University by Myra, Sam, Josh and Justin Krane.

In memory of: Edith Sonken by Evelyn Krane.

Speedy recovery to: Jack Baylin by Evelyn Krane.

SUSAN AND DAVID KRIGER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Ayala Sher’a sister by Susan and David Kriger.

RIVA AND ABRAHAM KROLL MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Ellen Lithwick on her great-granddaughter Taylor’s Bat Mitzvah by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

ANNICE AND SYDNEY KRONICK FAMILY FUND Congratulations to: Josh Kushner on his graduation by Richard Kronick.

Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Debi and Neil Zaret.

Joan and Henry Bloom on the engagement of their daughter Linda to Graham by Sydney Kronick and Barbara Sugarman.

In memory of: Joseph Ages by Debi, Neil, Josh and Adam Zaret.

Zeev Vered by Debi and Neil Zaret.

Anniversary wishes to: Phyllis and Max Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Sidney Kronick and Barbara Sugarman.

Birthday wishes to: Manny Gluck on his special birthday by Sydney Kronick and Barbara Sugarman.

ISSIE AND EDITH LANDAU ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by Edie Landau.

HARRY AND ZENA LEIKIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Fran, Ivan and Carly Kesler.

Moe Kugler by Fran, Ivan and Carly Kesler.

Dorothy Nodelman by Fran, Ivan and Carly Kesler.

Anniversary wishes to: Joany and Andy Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Fran, Ivan and Carly Kesler; and by Libby and Stan Katz.

Barb and Len Farber by Fran, Ivan and Carly Kesler; and by Libby and Stan Katz.

David and Cheryl Katz by Libby and Stan Katz.

HILDY AND STEVEN LESH ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Jean Zackon by Steven and Hildy Lesh.

NORMAN AND ISABEL LESH ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Ethel Taylor by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Lee Raskin by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Maurie Karp by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Anniversary wishes to: Irving and Ruth Aaron on their special anniversary by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

In memory of: Jean Zackon by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Zeev Vered by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

Jack Engels by Isabel and Norman Lesh.

MURIEL LEVINE MEMORIAL FUND Congratulations to: Abe Feinstein on being awarded the Law Society Medal of Upper Canada by Stan and Cathy Levine.

In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Stan and Cathy Levine and family.

SANDRA AND JACIE LEVINSON ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Sandra and Jacie Levinson.

Joseph Ages by Sandra and Jacie Levinson.

Birthday wishes to: Sandra Levinson by Mary and Murray Macy.

RUTH AND RON LEVITAN ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Mayer Alvo on winning the Shem Tov Community Volunteer award by Ron and Ruth Levitan.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Ron and Ruth Levitan.

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HIRAM AND LILLIAN KATHNELSON FAMILY FUND Speedy recovery to: Lyon Gilbert by Allan and Andrea Solman.

LIBBY AND STAN KATZ FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Andy and Joany Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Len, Barbara, Steven and Michael Farber.

David and Cheryl Katz by Len, Barbara, Steven and Michael Farber.

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS Anniversary wishes to: Arnie and Sarah Swedler on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Ron and Ruth Levitan.

SALLY AND ELLIOTT LEVITAN ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Evelyn and Joseph Lieff on the graduation of their grandson Zac from Dalhousie University by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

Dr. Susan Lieff on receiving the Steve Herbert Award for Excellence in Education by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

Thinking of you: Kayla and Alvin Mallay by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

Anniversary wishes to: Phyllis and Max Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

ERNEST AND IDA LEVITZ MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Mayer Alvo on being the recipient of the Shem Tov Community Volunteer award by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz.

Stuart Ages on being the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz.

JOSEPH AND EVELYN LIEFF ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Rhea and Jeff Hochstadter on their daughter Elana’s acceptance to medical school by Norman Lieff and Francie Greenspoon.

Arnie Vered on being the recipient of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff; and by Norman Lieff and Francie Greenspoon.

Ron and Jennifer Vered on the birth of their son by Norman Lieff and Francie Greenspoon.

Stuart Ages on being the recipient of the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Norman Lieff and Francie Greenspoon.

Laya and Sol Shabinsky on the marriage of their grandson Jacob by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Norman Lieff and Francie Greenspoon; and

by Elissa Lieff and David Resnick, Zac and Kayla.

Zeev Vered by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

Joseph Ages by Elissa Lieff and David Resnick.

Speedy recovery to: Dorothy Nadolny by Elissa Lieff and David Resnick.

John Holzman by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

Ethel Taylor by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

Al Cohen by Evelyn and Joseph Lieff.

Anniversary wishes to: Andy and Joany Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Elissa Lieff, David Resnick, Zac and Kayla.

ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK FAMILY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Devorah and Seth Mandell and on the arrival of Baby Eli by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

ARNOLD AND ROSE LITHWICK MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: Abe Klugsberg by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

IRVING AND ELLEN LITHWICK MEMORIAL FuND Mazal Tov to: Barbara Lithwick on her granddaughter Taylor’s Bat Mitzvah

by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

Norton Lithwick on his granddaughter Taylor’s Bat Mitzvah by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Harold and Marcia Fein on their anniversary and on Harold’s retirement by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

Birthday wishes to: Norton Lithwick by Yvonne and Harvey Lithwick and family.

DAVID LOEB FAMILY FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by David and Adele Loeb.

ANNE (BLAIR) AND HYMAN MAYBERGER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Charles Schachnow; and by Shelley and Morris Schachnow and Anne Blair.

MORTY MAYBERGER UNITED JEWISH APPEAL GOLF TOURNAMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Charles Schachnow.

Continued good health to: Nicola Hamer by Morris and Shelley Schachnow.

SEYMOUR AND JOY MENDER FAMILY FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Seymour, Joy, Jessie, David and Jared

Mender.

Sam Kreisman by Seymour, Joy, Jessie, David and Jared Mender.

Esther Shiloni by Seymour, Joy, Jessie, David and Jared Mender.

Zeev Vered by Seymour, Joy, Jessie, David and Jared Mender.

BONNIE AND CHUCK MEROVITZ FAMILY FUND Speedy recovery to: Ethel Taylor by Bonnie and Check Merovitz.

Steve Greenberg by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Max Feldman by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Sintra Singh by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Birthday wishes to: Norman Potechin by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Frances Karanofsky and Mazal Tov on becoming a great Bubby by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

Mazal Tov to: Helen and Rick Zipes on the birth of their grandchildren by Bonnie and Chuck Merovitz.

NORMAN AND ANNE MIRSKY MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Judith and Norman Kronick on the birth of their grandson by Millie and Steve Mirsky.

MORRIS MOLOT MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Edith Sonken by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

TANYA AND SAMUEL MOSES MORIN MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Samuel Moses Morin, a dearly beloved father by Gertrude and Harvey Morin.

Tanya Morin, a dearly beloved mother by Gertrude and Harvey Morin.

Mazal Tov to: Alyce and Allan Baker on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Harvey Morin.

PEARL AND DAVID MOSKOVIC ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Brandel and Haskell Moskovic, Laya, Rifka and Moshe by Pearl and David Moskovic.

ELLEN, SHARON, LAWRENCE AND LYNDA NADOLNY FAMILIES FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Sharon, Lawrence, Amy, Erica and Jonathan Weinstein.

DOROTHY AND HERBERT NADOLNY FOUNDATION Continued good health to: Dorothy Nadolny by Michael Gennis and family.

In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Dorothy Nadolny.

Mazal Tov to: Joan and Henry Bloom on the engagement of their daughter Linda to Graham by Dorothy Nadolny.

Ruth and Manny Shacter on their grandson Justin’s graduation from university by Dorothy Nadolny.

Birthday wishes to: Simmy Gardner on her special birthday by Dorothy Nadolny.

HARRY AND BERTHA PLEET MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Myer Schwartz, a dear father by Pinchas and Barbara Pleet.

Pearl Anna Schwartz, a dear mother by Pinchas and Barbara Pleet.

JACK AND MIRIAM PLEET ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Phyllis and Max Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Miriam and Jack Pleet.

In memory of: Joseph Ages by Jack and Miriam Pleet.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Jack Pleet by Dorothy Nadolny.

PREHOGAN FAMILY FUND IN MEMORY OF AARON HARRY COHEN Speedy recovery to: Steve Greenberg by Avalee and Ron Prehogan.

Ethel Taylor by Avalee and Ron Prehogan.

Jacie Levinson by Avalee and Ron Prehogan.

Sol Shinder by Avalee and Ron Prehogan.

Thank you to: Sol and Zelaine Shinder by Avalee and Ron Prehogan.

Anniversary wishes to: Jack and Ethel Prehogan on their 60th wedding anniversary

by Yetta Cohen.

GERALD AND MARY-BELLE PULVERMACHER FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Myrtle Connelly by Mary-Belle and Gerry Pulvermacher.

ALTI AND BEREL RODAL FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Feiga Rodal on her 95th birthday by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Shirley Haasnoot and Bernard Wasserstein on the birth of Tomer Pieter Abraham by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Sorale and Mendy Bluming on the birth of Levi by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Veronika Elzer on the marriage of Diana and Adam by Alti and Berel Rodal.

Ron and Jennifer Vered on the birth/bris of Matthew Zeev by Alti and Berel Rodal.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Alti and Berel Rodal.

ROSSIE AND ISSIE ROSE ENDOWMENT FUND Congratulations to: Issie Rose on being honoured by Beth Shalom Synagoguge

by Joany and Andy Katz and family.

FLORENCE AND GDALYAH ROSENFELD ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Florence, Gdalyah and Anita Rosenfeld.

FRANCES AND MORTON ROSS FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Fran and Mort Ross.

Millie Kantor’s sister Lilly by Fran and Mort Ross.

Bella Gallaman by Fran and Mort Ross.

R’fuah Sh’lemah to: John Holzman by Fran and Mort Ross.

Mazal Tov to: Jessie and Jonathan Ross on their marriage by Helen and Abe Fleming.

MARSHALL ROTHMAN B’NAI MITZVAH FUND Mazal Tov to: Irv Osterer on receiving the Director’s Citation Award and the Capital Educators’ Award by Shelley Rothman and Marshall Rothman.

In memory of: Esther Shiloni by Shelley Rothman and family.

SAMUEL AND RUTH ROTHMAN MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Moe Kugler by Sue and Steve Rothman.

SHELLEY AND SID ROTHMAN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Moe Kugler by Shelley Rothman.

Joseph Ages by Shelley Rothman.

Zeev Vered by Shelley Rothman and family.

Max Feldman by Shelley Rothman.

Mazal Tov to: Steve Fremeth on receiving the ODA award of merit and Fellowships from the Academy of Dentistry International and the International College of Dentists by Shelley Rothman.

Helaine and Jack Gould on the marriage of their son Isaac to Hailey by Shelley Rothman.

Lois and Jeff Eisen on the marriage of their daughter Hailey to Isaac by Shelley Rothman.

JOSEPH AND MOLLY SADINSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Molly Sadinsky, wife, mother and grandmother, Sivan 24 by Carol, Stan, Mark and Jennifer.

RICKIE AND MARTIN SASLOVE FAMILY FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Dorothy Nadolny by Rickie and Marty Saslove.

Marilyn Newman by Rickie and Marty Saslove.

In memory of: Moe Kugler by Mark and Felicia Saslove.

ELAYNE AND WESLEY SCHACTER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Elayne, Wesley, Adam, Joshua and Michael Schacter.

Esther Shiloni by Elayne, Wesley, Adam, Joshua and Michael Schacter.

Bella Gallaman by Elayne, Wesley, Adam, Joshua and Michael Schacter.

HERMINA SCHACHNOW MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Charles Schachnow.

Mazal Tov to: Gail and Stephen Victor on the birth of their grandson by Shelley and Morris Schachnow.

SYD AND SHIRLEY SCHECTER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: George Montain by the Schecter family.

ABRAHAM AND MARY SHAFFER MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: Sheldon Shaffer by Myra, Sam, Josh and Justin Krane.

HAROLD SHAFFER MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Harold Shaffer, dear brother by Sheldon and Sonia Shaffer.

SAM AND MARY SHAFFER MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Bob Schain by Bernie Shaffer and Donna Cummings.

HARRY AND SYLVIA SHINDER MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: Eileen Goldberg on her special birthday by Ethel and David Malek and family.

SOL AND ZELAINE SHINDER ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Sara and Arnie Swedler on their 50th wedding anniversary by Sol and Zelaine Shinder.

Get well wishes to: Karen Custoreri by Zelaine and Sol Shinder.

Speedy recovery to: Sol Shinder by Dorothy Nadolny.

LORNE AND LAURIE SHUSTERMAN FAMILY FUND Anniversary wishes to: Benita and Steve Baker on their 30th wedding anniversary by Lorne, Laurie, Zachary and Ben Shusterman.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Lorne, Laurie, Zachary and Ben Shusterman.

Sam Kreisman by Lorne, Laurie, Zachary and Ben Shusterman.

Janet Ellis by Laurie Shusterman.

Mazal Tov to: Leah Miller and family on the wedding of Freedy Reinitz and Pinchas Luck by Lorne and Laurie Shusterman.

JACK AND SARAH SILVERSTEIN FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND Speedy recovery to: Stephen Greenberg by Sarah and Jack Silverstein and family.

In memory of: Joseph Ages by the Silverstein family.

Zeev Vered by the Silverstein family.

LINDA SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Phyllis and Max Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Marvin and Phyllis Silverman.

Birthday wishes to: Manny Gluck on his special birthday by Marvin and Phyllis Silverman; and by Mark Silverman.

MOE AND CHARLOTTE SLACK MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Myra and Lester Aronson.

JACK AND LINDA SMITH ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Leiba Smith on her special birthday by Dorothy Nadolny.

Mazal Tov to: Leiba Krantzberg on becoming Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada by Clair Krantzberg.

LAURA AND GORDON SPERGEL ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Marla, Mark, Andrew, Samantha and Evan Spergel.

Zeev Vered by Mark, Marla, Andrew, Samantha and Evan Spergel.

Alton Bregman by Mark, Marla, Andrew, Samantha and Evan Spergel.

Speedy recovery to: Elayne Schacter by the Spergels.

Anniversary wishes to: Andy and Joany Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Marla and Mark Spergel.

BOBBY STEINBERG MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Lee Steinberg; and by Sharon and Gary

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS Steinberg and family.

VICTOR AND SHIRLEY STEINBERG ENDOWMENT FUND Birthday wishes to: Dr. Moses Steinberg by Shirley Steinberg and family.

Devora Kolko on her special birthday by Shirley Steinberg and family.

DORIS AND RICHARD STERN FAMILY FUND In memory of: Jacki’s mother by Doris and Richard Stern and family.

Zeev Vered by Doris and Richard Stern.

Mazal Tov to: Doris and Richard Stern on their grandson Josh’s Bar Mitzvah

by Simmy Gardner.

MAX AND PHYLLIS STERNTHAL FAMILY FUND Anniversary wishes to: Max and Phyllis Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary; and by Ethel Shara; by Dorothy Nadolny; by Sherrill and John Berrys; by Joan and Henry Bloom; by Mark and Nina Dover; by Joe and Ruth Viner; and by Harriet and Irving Slone.

JAY B. TALLER MEMORIAL FUND Birthday wishes to: Sally Taller on her special birthday by Libby and Stan Katz; by Marilyn Waserman and family; by Enid and Jeff Gould and family; and by Rhoda and Jeff Simbrow and family.

In memory of: Elizabeth Roodman by Sally and Morton Taller.

Zeev Vered by Morton and Sally Taller.

SAMUEL AND ANNE TALLER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Archie Talor by Marilyn Waserman and family.

THE TARANTOUR FAMILY FUND Anniversary wishes to: Laya and Michael Abramowitz on their 31st wedding anniversary by Ann Lazear and family.

CHARLES AND RAE TAVEL MEMORIAL FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Ethel Taylor by Sunny and John Tavel.

Mazal Tov to: Stephen and Gail Victor on the birth of their grandson by Sunny and John Tavel.

Kaysa and Alfie Friedman on Michael’s wedding by Sunny and John Tavel.

Gordon and Margo Roston on the birth of their grandson by Sunny and John Tavel.

Cayla and Michael Baylin on Lisa’s marriage by Sunny and John Tavel.

Good health to: Stephen Greenberg by Sunny and John Tavel.

Dorothy Nadolny by Sunny and John Tavel.

Leema Magidson by Sunny and John Tavel.

In memory of: Max Feldman by Sunny and John Tavel.

Sam Kreisman by Sunny and John Tavel.

CHARLES AND ROSE TAYLOR ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Chick and Rose Taylor.

Birthday wishes to: Rose Taylor on her special birthday by Dorothy Nadolny.

IRVING AND ETHEL TAYLOR ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Ethel Taylor by Sheila and Larry Hartman; by Sally Taller; by Norman and Carole Zagerman; by Barbara and Louis Fine; and by Dorothy Nadolny.

Thinking of you: Ethel Taylor by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor and family and Jerry and Jennifer; by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel and family; and by Clair Krantzberg.

Mazal Tov to: Stephanie Korn on her graduation from York University with a Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree by Booboo and Poppa.

Jennifer Korn on her graduation from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts Degree by Booboo and Poppa.

Shira Taylor on her graduation from Queen’s University with an Honours Bachelor of Science with Distinction Degree by Nana and Grandpa.

JEFFREY TAYLOR AND SUSIE WEISMAN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Jeph Goldberg by the Weisman-Taylor family.

LISE AND MARK THAW FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Ellen Reider on her 50th birthday by Lise, Mark, Alayna and Bryan Thaw.

Liz Vered on her 50th birthday by Lise, Mark, Alayna and Bryan Thaw.

Ilana Belfer on her special birthday by Bryan Thaw.

Tess Fischer on her special birthday by Bryan Thaw.

Jacob Polowin on his special birthday by Bryan Thaw.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Lise and Mark Thaw and family.

In appreciation to: Gustavo Rymberg by Mark Thaw and Sharon Finn.

Sharon Diamond by Mark Thaw and Sharon Finn.

Sarah Morgan by Mark Thaw and Sharon Finn.

Patrice Berdowski by Mark Thaw and Sharon Finn.

Mazal Tov to: Gustavo and Marisa Rymberg on the daughter’s Bat Mitzvah

by Lise and Mark Thaw.

Congratulations to: Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Lise, Mark, Alayna and Bryan Thaw.

MOSES, CHENYA AND HENRY TORONTOW MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Leah Torontow by Bea Torontow; by Jean Naemark; and by Alan, Elaine, Joel, Valerie and Glen Torontow.

Henry Hank Torontow by Jean Naemark.

ELIZABETH AND ARNON VERED FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND Mazal Tov to: Arnie Vered on being the recipient of the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz; by Ethel and Irving Taylor; by Sol and Zelaine Shinder; by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman; by Norman and Carole Zagerman;

by Charles and Marcia Rak; by David and Sara Lipnowski; and by Dorothy Nadolny.

Birthday wishes to: Liz Vered on her special birthday by Susan, Charles, Jaclyn and Paul Schwartzman.

GILAD, ARNIE AND RON VERED ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Ron and Jennifer Vered on the birth of their son by Edie Landau.

SARA AND ZEEV VERED ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Barry Appel; by Rhoda, Jeff, Howard and Sara Miller; by Sol and Zelaine Shinder; by Simmy Gardner; by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel; by Joany and Andy Katz and family; by Bernie and Donna Dolansky; by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor and family;

by Steve and Roz Fremeth; by Mary and Murray Macy; by Sharon, Lawrence, Amy, Erica and Jonathan Weinstein; by Len and Barbara Farber; by Edie Landau; by Ingrid and Gerry Levitz; by Alan Freed and Sharon Rosentzveig; by Libby and Stan Katz; by Brenda and Mel Schafer and family. Lise, Mark, Alayna and Bryan Thaw; by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel and family; by Chick and Rose Taylor; by Mitchell Bellman and Nicola Hamer; by Sunny and John Tavel; by Zelma Palef; by Norman and Carole Zagerman; by David and Sara Lipnowski; by Fred and Lisa Cogan; and by Dorothy Nadolny.

STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Gail and Stephen Victor on the birth of their grandson by Len and Barbara Farber; by Sandy Marchello; and by Dorothy Nadolny.

RUTH AND JOSEPH VINER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Dorothy Nodelman by Ruth and Joe Viner.

SONIA AND ARTHUR VINER MEMORIAL FUND In appreciation to: Melissa and Michael Springer by Audrey, Irwin and Arielle Kreisman.

Birthday wishes to: Kevin Viner on his 45th birthday and for chanting the Haftorah in Kingston by Uncle John and Aunt Gital.

Courtney Greenberg on her 17th birthday and have a good time at camp by Bubby Gladys and Zaida John.

Anniversary wishes to: Pam and Oded Ravek on their Silver anniversary by Mom and Dad. MICHAEL WALSH AND LISA ROSENKRANTZ ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Lisa Rosenkrantz by Dominique Leeman and Roanne Weinstein.

MILDRED AND PERCY WEINSTEIN ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Phyllis and Max Sternthal on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Millie Weinstein.

Sarah and Arnie Swedler on their 50th wedding anniversary

by Millie Weinstein.

In memory of: Joseph Ages by Millie Weinstein.

Zeev Vered by Millie Weinstein.

Sam Kreisman by Millie Weinstein.

Mazal Tov to: Alyce and Allan Baker on the birth of their twin grandchildren

by Millie Weinstein.

STACEY SAMANTHA KATZ B’NAI MITZVAH FUND In memory of: Joseph Ages by Joany and Andy Katz and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Benita and Steve Baker on their 30th wedding anniversary by Joany and Andy Katz and family.

Joany and Andy Katz on their 25th wedding anniversary by Dorothy Nadolny.

Mazal Tov to: Arnie Vered on receiving the Gilbert Greenberg Distinguished Service award by Joany and Andy Katz.

Stuart Ages on receiving the Freiman Family Young Leadership award by Joany and Andy Katz.

ROBERT WENER AND LYNNE ORECK WENER FAMILY FUND Birthday wishes to: Paul Morton on his 70th birthday by Lynnne Oreck Wener and Bob Wener and family.

In memory of: Zeev Vered by Lynne Oreck Wener and Bob Wener.

JOSH LEVITAN B’NAI MITZVAH FUND Congratulations to: Josh Levitan on his academic achievement by Sally and Elliott Levitan.

CAROLE AND NORMAN ZAGERMAN COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT FUND Speedy recovery to: Norman Zagerman by Mary and Murray Macy.

SAM AND HELENE ZARET MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Sam Kreisman by Debi, Neil, Josh and Adam Zaret.

Congratulations to: Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg on the marriage of their daughter Jessica by Debi, Neil, Josh and Adam Zaret.

ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: John Holzman by Rick and Helen Zipes.

Congratulations to: Dr. and Mrs. Peter Brett on the birth of their grandson by Rick and Helen Zipes.

In memory of: Sintra Singh by Rick and Helen Zipes.

THE SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB B’NAI MITZVAH PROGRAM JORDAN SAMUEL FINN B’NAI MITZVAH FUND In memory of: Carolyn Piche’s mother by Sharon and Paul Finn and family.

MAX JONAH GENNIS B’NAI MITZVAH FUND R’fuah Sh’lemah to: Fred Pinkus by the Gennis family.

RYAN GOLDBERG B’NAI MITZVAH FUND Birthday wishes to: Fan Tucker on her special birthday by Len and Mary Potechin.

Eileen Goldberg by Ernie, Reva, Robyn and Ryan Goldberg.

Norman Potechin by Ernie, Reva, Robyn and Ryan Goldberg.

Earl Potechin on his special birthday by Aunt Mary and Uncle Len. In memory of: Zeev Vered by Len and Mary Potechin.

Thinking of: Rabbi David Monson by Len and Mary Potechin.

Speedy recovery to: Jack Baylin by Len and Mary Potechin.

DANA AND REMI PEARL B’NAI MITZVAH FUND In memory of: Zeev Vered by Gita and Jerry Pearl.

Congratulations to: Jacquelin Holzman on being awarded an Honorary Diploma from Algonquin College by Gita and Jerry Pearl.

JOSH TAYLOR MITZVAH FUND Mazal Tov to: Marie Levine on running Hillel’s successful Used Book Fair by the Weisman-Taylor gang.

Iris Arnon-McGregor on running Hillel’s successful Used Book Fair by the Weisman-Taylor gang.

ALAYNA AND BRYAN THAW MITZVAH FUND Birthday wishes to: Stacey Katz on her special birthday by Bryan Thaw.

Rachel Lieff on her special birthday by Bryan Thaw.

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WHAT’S GOING ON July 21 to August 24, 2008 WEEKLY EVENTS TUESDAYS Israeli Folkdancing, no experience or partner required, Hillel Academy, 31 Nadolny Sachs Private, 6:30 pm. Info: 613-7292090.

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ONGOING PROGRAMS Yiddish-speaking group, sponsored by Jewish Family Services, 2255 Carling Avenue. Info: 613-722-2225, ext. 325.

MONDAY, AUGUST 11 Tamir’s Annual Bagels and Beer Golf Fun-Raiser, Rideau View Golf and Country Club. Info: 613-725-3519.

SUNDAY, JULY 27 Caving Day, sponsored by Jewish Education through Torah, cave tour, transportation and lunch, 11:00 am. Info: 613-7989818, ext. 247.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 Bridge and Mah-jongg Dessert Afternoon, sponsored

by Negev Chapter of Canadian Hadassh-WIZO, bridge, mah jongg, dessert, and prizes, no partner necessary, all welcome, 58 Coulson Court, Kanata, 1:00 pm. Info: 613-599-5745 or 613828-9272.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 Let’s Do Lunch, sponsored

by Jewish Family Services and Congregation Agudath Israel, monthly luncheon and entertainment program for seniors, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, noon. Info: 613728-3501.

The Kibbitz Club, sponsored

by Jewish Family Services and Congregation Beth Shalom, seniors luncheon and entertainment program, 151 Chapel Street, noon.

Info: 613-789-3501, ext. 223.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 Tu B’av – the Jewish Festival of Love, sponsored by the Vered Israel Cultural and Educational Program and the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, music, wine-tasting, sushi bar and desserts, Soloway JCC outdoor pool, 7:30 pm. Info: 613-7989818, ext. 243.

For a further listings visit www.jewishottawa.org/ calendar/planitjewish

COMING SOON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 Sid Rothman Memorial Golf Tournament, Cedarhill Golf & Country Club.

Info: 613-727-5418.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 SJCC 10th Anniversary Celebration cocktail gala and live entertainment, 7:00 pm.

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 271.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 Hadassah-WIZO Charities Bazaar, full-day upscale shopping experience featuring new and gently used items, Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue, 9:00 am.

Donations to the Ottawa Food Bank requested.

Info: 613-798-7644.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Stem Cell Research: Issues and Opportunities, sponsored by Weizmann Science Canada, interactive forum and question period with Dr. Tsvee Lapidot of the Weizmann Institute of Science, department of immunology; and Dr. Michael Rudnicki of the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa Health Research Institute. Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, 7:30 pm. Info: 514-342-0777.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Annual Campaign Kickoff, Jewish Federation of Ottawa, guest speaker Mariane Pearl, widow of slain journalist Daniel Pearl and author of “A Mighty Heart,” Centrepointe Theatre, 7:30 pm.

Info: 613-798-4696, ext. 241.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Jewish Federation of Ottawa Women’s Campaign Luncheon, Paper Clip project creator Linda Hooper, Congregation Beth Shalom, 151 Chapel Street, 11:30 am.

Info: 613-798-4696, ext. 270.

Unless otherwise noted, activities take place at The Joseph and Rose Ages Family Building, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private.

This information is taken from the community calendar maintained by the Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa Inc. Organizations which would like their events to be listed, no matter where they are to be held, should make sure they are recorded by Benita Siemiatycki, calendar coordinator at 613-798-4696 ext. 227. We have voice mail. Accurate details must be provided and all events must be open to the Jewish public. You may fax to 798-4695 or email to bsiemiatycki@ewishottawa.com.

Readers and advertisers are advised the next edition of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin will be published on Monday, August 25, 2008.

The deadline date is Wednesday, August 6, 2008.

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Condolences Condolences are extended to the families of: Maxwell Feldman Leah Finkelstein Sidney Lithwick Gerard Litvan Esther Shiloni, Jerusalem (mother of Noga Reiss and Irit Beck) Edith Sonken Lily Strauss

Zeev Vered Myer Vexler Jean Zackon May their memory be a blessing always.

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BULLETIN DEADLINES AUGUST 6 FOR AUGUST 25 AUGUST 20 FOR SEPTEMBER 15 * SEPTEMBER 10 FOR SEPTEMBER 29 SEPTEMBER 24 FOR OCTOBER 13 OCTOBER 3 FOR OCTOBER 27 * Community-wide Issue (all dates subject to change)