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Fatah: Israel-Palestinian solution key to overcoming Muslim anti-Semitism

Ottawa Jewish Community School production Ottawa Jewish Community School students perform in The Sounds of Music, the school’s (Photo: Howard Sandler) Chanukah production.

See pages 18, 19, 20, 23 and 35 for more photos of Chanukah celebrations in Ottawa.

Student’s effort behind private member’s bill to establish national Holocaust monument

By Ilana Belfer Laura Grosman said her Blackberry went crazy when Bill C-442 was approved by unanimous consent, December 8, on third reading in the House of Commons.

Grosman, 23, said she was running out the door to go to class.

“My parents, grandparents and friends were all calling to wish me congratulations and I didn’t have time to speak to anybody … the life

of a student, right?”

Grosman, born and raised in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, is a University of Ottawa student studying public administration and Canadian Jewish studies. In addition to school, work and extracurricular involvement, she has dedicated the past four years to Bill C-442, an act to establish a national Holocaust monument in Canada.

In 2007, a class about memorial-

ization led her and her peers to brainstorm ways of bringing more Holocaust studies to high schools.

They came up with the idea of creating a monument, and Grosman took charge.

The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, she said she was very young when her grandfather passed away and had no way of talking to him about his experi(Continued on page 2)

By Michael Regenstreif A mixed audience of Muslims and Jews gathered in a synagogue to hear a Muslim speak about widespread Muslim anti-Semitism is a sign that “all is not lost,” said Tarek Fatah, a Toronto-based activist, broadcaster and author of the recently published bestseller, The Jew is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths That Fuel Muslim AntiSemitism.

Fatah, who was born, raised and educated in Pakistan, and who lived in Saudi Arabia before immigrating to Canada, is the founder and former president of the liberal Muslim Canadian Congress. He was speaking, January 13, at Congregation Beth Shalom to an audience that responded enthusiastically to his analysis of historic and contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism and to his prescriptions for overcoming it.

“They [Jews] are too few and we [Muslims] are too many,” Fatah said repeatedly in explaining how anti-Semitism has become so widespread in Muslim societies and communities. Most Muslims, he said, have never met a Jew, and it’s too easy to get away with hating someone you’ve never met.

“There are Muslims free of this cancer [anti-Semitism],” Fatah said in calling attention to some of the Muslims in attendance, “but this talk would not be allowed to take

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place in a mosque.”

Despite the fact that many Muslims fought the Nazis and helped save Jews during the Holocaust, the foundation for contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism, Fatah said, was laid by Hajj Amin alHusayni, the notorious grand mufti of Jerusalem, who became a prominent supporter of Adolf Hitler and a Nazi collaborator.

“He was the only prominent Nazi that escaped any censure or prosecution” following the war, said Fatah, explaining that (Continued on page 2)

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Mumbai attack led Fatah to write The Jew is Not My Enemy (Continued from page 1)

al-Husayni escaped, first to France, then to Egypt, where he was granted asylum.

The unresolved conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, Fatah said, “is the oxygen that keeps anti-Semitism alive” in the Muslim world and has become the catalyst for making antiSemitism “respectable again in the West.”

To illustrate that new respectability, Fatah contrasted two New Democratic Party conventions in Canada.

“In 1967, David Lewis got a standing ovation for congratulating Israel for its victory [in the Six Day War], while in 2006, Winnipeg MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis was booed for condemning Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.” Wasylycia-Leis was speaking out against an anti-Israel resolution, supported by more than 80 per cent of NDP convention delegates, which referred to Hezbollah as a “recognized political party.”

Fatah said that anti-Semitism was all but unknown in Pakistan when he was growing up, but, in a 2006 visit there, he was shocked to discover how widespread it had become in a country that is not home to significant numbers of Jews. Few Pakistanis, he said, have ever met a Jew. He was further shocked, in 2008, when Islamist Pakista-

nis attacked Mumbai, India, including the attack on the Chabad centre there in which Jewish people were specifically targeted for murder.

“They were told that killing one Jew is equal to killing 50 others,” Fatah said.

It was the attack on the Mumbai Chabad centre that led Fatah to write The Jew is Not My Enemy.

Describing himself as “equally pro-Israel and proPalestine,” to which there is “no contradiction,” Fatah said that solving the conflict was the key to eliminating anti-Semitism.

He also said that Israel was the only country in the Middle East that actually wants a Palestinian state. He added that the momentum for creating a Palestinian state will have to come from Israel rather than the Palestinians.

Fatah pointed out that – since the 1973 Yom Kippur War – the Arab states surrounding Israel have accepted Israel and abandoned the idea of war, and that Israel’s recent wars have been with non-state actors like Hezbollah and Hamas. Establishing a Palestinian state and developing a trading economy is the path to Israel’s security.

The alternative to not achieving a Palestinian state is ongoing warfare with Islamist guerilla groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.

According to Fatah, who believes in the separation of

religion and state, Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state is not tied to Judaism but to Jewish peoplehood.

“You can be an atheist and still be Jewish,” he said.

Just as Jewish peoplehood legitimates Israel as a Jewish state, so, too, does Palestinian peoplehood legitimate their claim to a homeland.

He also suggested that, ultimately, it will be a threerather than two-state solution in the region, as it is unlikely that the West Bank and Gaza can be reconciled and reunited.

Fatah made several other points during his talk at Beth Shalom. He said that interfaith dialogue groups between Jews and Muslims in Canada will get nowhere because “it is a complete farce to say there is a Muslim community.”

Instead, he said, the Jewish community should be holding dialogue with the various Muslim communities – Somali, Pakistani, Turkish, Palestinian, etc. – as most Muslim cultural communities in Canada do not interact with each other.

Muslims, he also said, do not enjoy true freedom in any of the world’s Muslim countries.

“The only countries in which Muslims are free are where we are in the minority,” said Fatah, who named Canada, the United States and Israel as examples of

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countries where Muslims live in freedom.

Fatah said he’ll be back in Ottawa in the coming months

to participate in a program at Carleton University refuting Israel Apartheid Week.

A review of Fatah’s book,

The Jew is Not My Enemy, will appear in an upcoming issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.

Edmonton MP Tim Uppal picked up private member’s bill torch in new Parliament (Continued from page 1)

ences. She was always interested in learning about the Holocaust and, as a child, received Holocaust books as Chanukah presents. Grosman said the project to establish the memorial has been an opportunity to wrap her head around what happened.

“Every other allied country has a monument … with our history when it comes to Jewish immigration … especially during and after the war, it’s important for us to show our ideas have changed,” Grosman said.

Being politically minded, Grosman brought the idea of a monument to Susan Kadis (Liberal, Thornhill), then her member of Parliament. Kadis suggested she present a private member’s bill to create the monument.

Grosman also met with Peter Kent, then the Conservative Party’s candidate in Thornhill.

“He said, ‘Let me bring it to the Prime Minister’s Office and I’ll see what I can do.’ Within 45 minutes of leaving his house, he gave me a call and said they were completely on board with the initiative,” said Grosman.

Unfortunately, the bill died after first reading when Parliament was dissolved prior to the 2008 election.

Kent defeated Kadis in Thornhill and was appointed to cabinet, which meant he could not introduce a private members’ bill.

They set out to find someone else who would take on the bill. After speaking with some colleagues, Kent found Tim Uppal (Conservative, Edmonton-Sherwood Park), who was soon on the order paper to introduce a private member’s bill.

“He’s Sikh, so it was a great to show the lessons of the Holocaust through hav-

Edmonton-Sherwood Park MP Tim Uppal in the House of Commons, December 8, as his private member’s bill to establish a national Holocaust monument passes third reading by unanimous consent. (Photo: timuppal.ca)

ing such a diverse group of people supporting the initiative,” Grosman said.

The bill passed first reading and had its second reading last year in March. Committee meetings took place throughout May and June. In October, the bill reached report stage, where the House of Commons votes on amendments. After debates on October 27 and December 8, the bill passed its third reading.

“Something like eight private members’ bills have been passed since 2006, so it’s a really big deal that this bill has been successful,” said Grosman.

Bill C-442 has now been sent to the Senate. Grosman said she foresees no problems for the bill in the Senate

and hopes everything will be wrapped up by the end of the current session in June.

In terms of the monument itself, Laura is undecided as to whether she will join the council responsible for everything from fundraising to building materials.

For now, she’s keeping her eye on the prize – passing the bill, and then, possibly, passing on the torch.

“It’s discouraging when you’re trying to do something good for the community and you have people say ‘I’m not going to stake my reputation on a 19-year-old girl with a pipe dream,’” said Laura. “The biggest lesson to learn from a story like mine is to let yourself be motivated … it’s all possible.”

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Photographer Peter Waiser is often seen taking pictures at community events

By Jacqueline Shabsove “I capture history,” said Peter Waiser, a freelance photographer and recognizable face at many Ottawa Jewish community events for more than a decade.

Taking pictures for the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, the Soloway Jewish Community Centre (JCC), the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, in addition to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, he was also the official photographer for two missions to Israel in 2006 and 2008.

As a professional photographer, he estimates that he’s covered somewhere between 200 and 300 events,

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Originally from North Bay, Ontario, Waiser has lived in Ottawa for 35 years.

It was a trip to Israel with a friend and her daughter that gave Waiser his main start in photography in 2000.

“When we got back to Ottawa, she talked me into showing my photos from the trip at the Soloway JCC, and it was really successful,” he said in an interview with the Bulletin.

The exhibition, which solely displayed Waiser’s distinct photographs, was held during Yom Ha’Atzmaut. From there, his work became known and the phone calls started coming in and haven’t stopped since.

“I’ve never taken a photo lesson. It’s just one of those things that come naturally to me,” said Waiser. “I do

all types of photography and I adapt myself to the job. I do it on intuition.”

Waiser, who also sells photo equipment at a photography store, has greatly enjoyed having the opportunity to cover all types of events.

“I love to do Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. They’re fun to do,” he said. “The job I enjoyed doing the most was the Tamir Bar/Bat Mitzvah Celebration. That was a blast.”

Political photography has been an interesting experience for Waiser, for other reasons.

“For political jobs, such as taking photos at the Israeli Embassy, instead of just standing around, you can listen to what’s going on, and it’s amazing how much you learn from it,” he said.

One of the best parts about being a photographer, he noted, is the spontaneity

and the surprised reactions he gets from people in disbelief about the special moments he has captured.

“Every time I take a picture, I consider it to be history,” Waiser said. “That moment will never happen again.”

His advice for aspiring photographers is simple.

“Carry your camera with you all the time,” he said.

“The best camera on the market is the one you have with you, and I say this very sincerely, because you got the shot and the other person didn’t.”

Photography, which he described as his passion, provided Waiser a link to the Jewish community with which he was uninvolved prior to his Israel trip in 2000.

“Coming back from Israel, photography drew me into the Jewish community and made me a part of the community,” he said.

Waiser is planning to donate all of his pictures of Jewish events, including annual general meetings, Walk-a-thons, and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, to the Ottawa Jewish Archives, likely in the late spring or early summer.

“It’s my opportunity to give something to the community.”

Photographer Peter Waiser, camera in hand, is always ready to get the shot.

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Engaging Ottawa’s emerging generation of Jewish leaders An all-day symposium to address the needs of Ottawa’s emerging generation of Jewish young adults will be held on April 3.

Jewish communities are changing and evolving. Among the most significant changes are the approaches and attitudes of the emerging generation of young Jewish adults – those of us who are roughly between the ages of 18 and 35. We are practising our faith and defining our identities in ways that are different from previous generations.

As a result of this cultural shift, the organized Jewish community and its traditional institutions are in a state of flux. The way these organizations have been serving their clientele are not meshing with the behaviour patterns and needs of our critical demographic. This has resulted in a generation of under-affiliated and unaffiliated young adults.

Studies have shown that young adults are not necessarily turning away from Judaism, but, rather, rebelling against what we see as constraining and dated practices. We have found new, innovative ways to develop our own Jewish networks and communities.

The question then arises: How to engage emerging Jewish leaders who may not be involved in traditional organizations through traditional channels of young leadership programs and institutions?

Federation Report Naomi Hirshberg and Howard Fremeth openOttawa Symposium Steering Committee Co-chairs In midst of these developments, the Jewish Outreach, Identity and Education Committee (JOIE) of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa was asked to develop a comprehensive community-wide engagement strategy.

JOIE gathered information from a Hillel International 2007 study, Hillel’s Journey: Distinctively, Universally Human, as well as through its own Ottawa-based survey and follow-up focus groups. The findings indicated: • The emerging generation views the notion of community differently from their parents and grandparents. Our idea includes fluid membership and is centred on common experiences and interests. We use social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to connect and enhance these connections.

• While young Jewish adults are as proud of our Judaism as previous generations, we tend to feel more connected to the Jewish people than to a local community, synagogue or institution. We may practise

The emerging generation views the notion of ‘community’ differently from their parents and grandparents our Jewish identities in many forms including social events, concerts or even volunteerism.

• Our demographic wants to practise Judaism with peers at high quality events. We put more value on the potential experience than cost.

The findings also concluded that Ottawa’s Jewish community needed to improve its outreach efforts and communica-

tion strategies; that it should offer more diverse opportunities for involvement, both religious and non-religious, in multiple locations; and finally, that it must be more welcoming to converts, interfaith families, gay and lesbians, new arrivals to Ottawa, and people with disabilities.

The research is in and it is time to make changes. Engaging the next generation of Jewish leaders is this community’s number one priority. The Federation is planning a series of conversations over the coming months to identify new ideas on how to engage and reach out to our emerging generation.

At the April 3 symposium, participants will share their ideas on how they think the community can better engage young adults.

This will be followed-up by community chats in May. We are the co-chairs of the steering committee and are working with other committee members from diverse social and professional backgrounds including political staffers, academics, public servants, private sector employees and healthcare professionals. Using social mapping and social networking, the tools and techniques of our generation, we are identifying lay community leaders and developing an innovative program.

For more information, or to share your thoughts, please visit us at openottawa.ca or facebook.com/open ottawa.

How can a Jewish country ignore eternal Jewish tenets?

Martin Luther King Day was observed in the United States on Monday, January 17.

While most of us in Canada had a tangential relationship to the events known as the Civil Rights Movement, it would be hard not to acknowledge that in just 45 years, the United States moved from Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech to the election of a black American as president of the United States.

Americans are justified in taking pride in the fact that, in such a brief period of time, their television screens have switched from showing African Americans beaten by police and attacked by police dogs to the scene of an African American taking the oath of office on the steps of the Congress.

In the life of an individual, 40 or so years can be a lifetime. For others, it merely marks the entrance into middle age. In the life of a country, the meaning of four decades is determined by the age of that country. What might 40 years mean in the scope of English history or Chinese history? What would 40 years represent to our “home and native land?” Certainly, it is more significant to we who locate our beginning in 1867. What might 40 years mean to a country that is only 62 years old?

From the pulpit Rabbi Steven Garten Temple Israel I muse about this because, in early December, a group of Israeli rabbis issued a document declaring it against Jewish law to rent or sell housing to non-Jews, a code for Muslims. This follows closely on the heels of different group of rabbis, in Safed, pressuring an elderly Jew not to rent his apartments to Muslim students attending the local state-run college. In fact, they picketed his home and plastered the streets with slogans calling him a “traitor the Jewish people.”

In our country, we call such actions ‘racist,’ and regardless of the religious justification for those declarations, they would be considered intolerable.

While many in Israel have denounced those racist statements, many others have justified their silence by declaring that Israel has so many important security issues to deal with, that racism or human rights are not priorities.

I wonder how long a country has to exist before it acknowledges that the fair

and equal treatment of all its citizens and all of its inhabitants is as important to its security and existence as a strong military deterrent.

I wonder how long a Jewish country can exist if, in the name of Judaism, eternal tenets such as “Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof (Justice, justice, you shall pursue),” or “Your maid servant or stranger that dwells with you shall you remember for you were

slaves,” are ignored.

The Americans fought their Civil War 145 years before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. I pray that our beloved Israel does not have to wait another 125 years, and fight a civil war before we acknowledge that which Torah taught us 3,000 years ago: Btzelem Eloheim (We are all created in God’s image).

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Gabriella Giffords: shaped by Jewish traditions and values I spent much of the day, January 8, glued to the non-stop cable news coverage of the terrible mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona. A seemingly deranged young man walked up to U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was hosting a routine meet-and-greet for constituents outside a supermarket, shot her in the head at pointblank range and then opened fire on the crowd around her.

Six people, including a respected federal court judge and a nine-year-old girl, recently elected to her student council and eager to meet her congresswoman, were killed in the senseless rampage. Another 14 were wounded, most seriously among them Giffords who miraculously survived the bullet that passed through her brain (as well as the “confirmation” of her death by CNN).

In the five days that have passed between the shooting and the writing of these words, Giffords has remained in critical condition, but her doctors have been encouraged by her “remarkable progress” and remain optimistic about her recovery.

On that first day, there did not seem to be any reporting of the fact that Giffords, the great-granddaughter of a Lithuanian rabbi, is Jewish or that she has credited Jewish values for shaping her approach to political life.

In 2006, just before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time, Giffords wrote an article for the

Editor Michael Regenstreif Arizona Jewish Post in which she said, “Growing up, my family’s Jewish roots and tradition played an important role in shaping my values. The women in my family served as strong role models for me as a girl. In my family, if you want to get something done, you take it to the women relatives!

“Like my grandmother, I am a lifetime member of Hadassah and now a member of Congregation Chaverim.”

In the article, Giffords also wrote about her strong commitment to Israel and about the state legislation she sponsored in Arizona on behalf of Holocaust survivors.

Elsewhere, she has referred to Jewish values helping to shape her compassionate stands on health care and immigrants’ rights, difficult issues in a conservative border state like Arizona.

Giffords was moved, said Rabbi Stephanie Aaron of Tucson’s Congregation Chaverim, “by the notion of tzedek, tzedek, tirdof – the Jewish pursuit of justice.”

Well before the shooting, Giffords had emerged as an outspoken voice of moder-

ation, civility and toned-down rhetoric on the American political scene. Political figures in her country, and in ours, would do well to follow Giffords’ lead in helping to restore civility to political discourse.

I’m sure I’ll get no arguments from anyone in wishing R’fuah Shlema to Gabrielle Giffords.

with grace by the [Jewish] musical establishment, but the Jewish community voted with their voices and made her songs part of the mainstream of Jewish worship,” Rabbi Daniel Freelander, senior vicepresident of the Union for Reform Judaism, told JTA at the time of her appointment to the school.

Debbie Friedman Just hours after the shooting, Giffords’ synagogue, Tucson’s Congregation Chaverim, held a prayer service for her and the other victims at which they sang “Mi Shebeirach,” Debbie Friedman’s translation and musical setting of a prayer for healing.

Ironically and sadly, Friedman, a major figure in Jewish music since the 1970s, died the next morning following hospitalization for pneumonia. She was just 59 years old.

Friedman, who was influenced by folksingers like Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary, was largely responsible for bringing participatory song to synagogue worship, particularly to many congregations in the Reform and Reconstructionist movements. She was also a singer, songwriter and guitarist with 20 albums and thousands of concerts to her credit.

In 2007, Friedman became an instructor at the School of Sacred Music at the Reform Movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

“Her gifts were not always accepted

AHAVA and the Bay Earlier this month, Hudson Bay Company (HBC) stores across Canada removed Israeli-made AHAVA beauty products from their stores. AHAVA products are made from mud and minerals from the Dead Sea and have been a particular target of the anti-Israel BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement.

BDS activists were quick to claim the disappearance of AHAVA products as a major victory. It seems, however, that their celebrations were a tad premature.

The next day, HBC CEO Bonnie Brooks categorically stated that the line of AHAVA products was discontinued because of several years of declining sales. She said the line was being “reformulated and redesigned” and that the new AHAVA products would be re-launched at HBC stores in mid-spring.

“HBC neither subscribes to nor endorses politically motivated boycotts of merchandise from countries with whom Canada has open and established trading relationships, including Israel,” wrote Brooks in her statement.

Young people not getting the message about excessive drinking Three young people, unknown to each other and in different cities, lost their lives in tragic accidents during the holiday season last month. And three families were thrust into unexpected grief.

Matthew Besner, a 27-year-old Jewish Montrealer, died on December 19 after disappearing from outside a bar in Old Montreal. An army of family and friends searched for him, putting up posters and combing the area from which he disappeared until his body was recovered, two days later, by the Lachine Canal, two km away.

Here, in Ottawa, Alex Zolpis, 24, died in the early hours of December 24 when he was pinned under a pick-up truck driven by his best friend in a ByWard Market parking garage.

Trevor Rankin, 38, died on December 24 in Charlottetown, P.E.I., where he went to visit his mother. As in the case of Besner, Rankin’s family and friends, along with the police, conducted an exhaustive search for the missing man until his body was found in the Charlottetown Harbour, where he drowned. Originally from the East Coast, Rankin had lived in Ottawa for several years.

Benita Siemiatycki Aside from the fact that they were male and young, there was another important common denominator in the three deaths.

All three had been drinking alcohol prior to their accident. As a society, we’ve made good inroads into convincing people not to drink and drive. There is usually a designated driver when a group is going out for drinks. Yet none of the deceased in these cases were behind a wheel when they died.

In the case of Zolpis, the driver of the truck, Jack Tobin, has been charged with impaired driving causing death. When the case winds its way through the courts, we may learn the facts that led to Zolpis being trapped under the truck.

What seems clear to me, however, is that young people are not sufficiently hearing messages about excessive drinking, period. Not to minimize the importance of

warnings about impaired driving, the fact is that, when you drink too much, you get impaired. And, if you’re impaired, accidents can happen. Even when walking down the street, or in a bar where, fuelled by alcohol, a minor altercation can escalate into violence.

As a mother of young adults, I’ve seen how this generation of young people seems to be unable to have fun without indulging in alcohol. Not only are there parties to drink, but there are pre-parties to get semidrunk before the serious binging begins.

On special occasions, like a prom or milestone birthday, there may even be a prepre-party. Guess what happens there.

Kids, as young as 14, are buying older kids’ identification, like health care cards or drivers’ licences, to fool their way into Hull bars where the legal drinking age is 18. Fake IDs are easily available as a way of making quick cash. And don’t think Jewish kids are immune to this drinking culture. They can certainly hold their own with the rest of their peers.

As demonstrated by these recent deaths, excessive alcohol consumption can result in diminished judgment and awareness of surroundings, confusion and lack of alert-

ness. Not to mention the physiological dangers of alcohol poisoning. In other words, you may not pose a danger to others if you go for a stroll when drunk, but you certainly put yourself at greater risk.

I don’t know how this culture of excessive youthful drinking got started, or, if in fact, it is worse than it’s been in previous generations. Maybe I’m just more aware of it because it’s right in front of me, thanks to my kids and their friends.

But, given the recent tragedies, I hope parents will have serious talks with their children to convince them that drinking to the point of losing control of your state of mind is very dangerous. And I hope schools, governments and even Mothers Against Drunk Driving will include this message in their impaired driving campaigns. We need to teach kids that drinking responsibly is not limited to choosing not to drink and drive, or get into the car of someone who’s been drinking. It’s in knowing when to stop drinking to avert another tragedy.

Or, better yet, to learn to have fun and enjoy each other’s company without the booze.

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Mailbag bulletin@ottawajewishbulletin.com Chabad Hebrew School I am writing concerning the article headlined “Hands-on learning at OTC Chabad Hebrew School” (November 29, 2010).

I can’t drum up any excitement over the “tenfold” increase in enrolment at OTC over five years. The way I see it, it comes at the expense of other Hebrew schools in Ottawa.

It is not possible to have the same level of learning of Hebrew, Torah, laws and customs, Israel and prayer in a Sunday-only program as you would in a thrice-weekly program.

One of my girls graduated from Talmud Torah Afternoon School (TTAS) and another is in the new exciting Grade 8 community awareness program this year. I won’t pretend that it was always easy to motivate my older daughter, but the experience provided her with an excellent grounding and likely gave her the impetus to take part in an NCSY Israel trip.

“Everything is done through hands-on learning and fun activities, not typical classroom activities” at OTC Chabad Hebrew School, according to Rabbi Menachem Blum.

While it’s true that students are in regular classrooms at TTAS, this doesn’t preclude them from having fun. They take part in walk-a-thons, volunteer, sing, dance paint, decorate Chanukiah, etc. Ironically, Rabbi Blum occasionally comes to TTAS to lead such hands-on activities as making a shofar, scribing for the Torah, etc.

I return to my initial comment about being lackadaisical about the OTC Hebrew School’s “success.” I expressed my concerns privately to Rabbi Blum in e-mail correspondence over one year ago. I really believe that establishing extra Hebrew schools hurts the existing ones and further divides the Ottawa Jewish community.

I’m originally from Montreal and have always felt that the Jewish community in Ottawa is more cohesive than Montreal’s, in part because it’s smaller. I enjoy being at a community event and seeing Jews of all denominations communicating and breaking bread together. So, why was there a need for OTC Chabad to establish its own school?

Elaine Vininsky Jewish Memorial Gardens My husband, unfortunately, passed away in early November. I found the community help and guidance lacking. It is such a stressful time that any and all help would have

been gratefully accepted.

For that reason, I particularly welcomed the article Jewish Memorial Gardens: an update to the community by John Diener (November 29, 2010). This community service (a single phone line to deal with all matters) is long overdue. I saw absolutely no sign of it when we were bereaved.

I am particularly interested in the document being prepared with details as to what happens from death to the unveiling. Hopefully, those, like us, in the in the in-between stages will receive a copy of this as soon as it is ready. It should include immediate costs, such as for the Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Memorial Gardens. We had long ago purchased plots and planned a prepaid funeral, so we were spared those problems. When my turn comes, I would like to spare my children all the other difficulties we encountered.

The start has been made. Hopefully, the initiative will continue with the assumption that everyone needs reminders of the ‘dos and don’ts,’ as well as what is customary and what is optional, and who, or which organization, provides each particular service.

My complements to the cemetery board – I look forward to their continued efforts on this most important aspect of Jewish community life.

Also, has any thought been given to bereavement support groups? They are available in the wider community.

Gittel Tatz Editor’s note: See article on funeral costs on page 11.

Rosh Chodesh initiative A small nucleus of women wants to start up a regular Rosh Chodesh group in solidarity with the woman of Israel. We hope to highlight a different social issue each session.

The first get-together will be on Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 am when we will network with the Women of the Wall. Anat Hoffman, executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, and chair of Women of the Wall will be available via Skype from Israel.

Please join us at Temple Israel to discuss the issues related to women praying at the Kotel. Women from all walks of life and of all ages in Ottawa’s Jewish community are invited and are welcome to attend. A light breakfast will be provided For further information, please contact me at merle.haltrecht@opera.ncf.ca or Annette Paquin at annettepaquin@sympatico.ca.

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JNF mounts response to disastrous Mount Carmel fires Most of you have heard about the disastrous fires in the Mount Carmel area near Haifa in December that took 43 lives and caused widespread destruction of forests and inhabited areas. In order to address this tragedy, KKL-JNF has swung into action worldwide, including Ottawa. Avi Dickstein, Resources and Development Division Executive Director of KKL-JNF, said, “All of us at KKL-JNF feel identification and sorrow about the casualties and the terrible catastrophe caused to people and to the environment. Our hearts go out to the bereaved families.”

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By Annette Paquin for Temple Israel Temple Israel Religious School has always had a strong social action component to its curriculum. Each year, the students have been keen and eager to participate and learn together. This year, the students have been involved in even more projects than they have in the past.

Several speakers have visited the school and addressed the students focusing on tzedakah and g’milut chasidim.

Grades 7 to 10 have learned about the Friendship Circle and the impact that they can have on someone’s life by the simple act of being a friend.

A speaker from Centre 454 explained the need for caring for those who can’t provide for themselves for whatever reasons, and Joan Schrier, a Temple member and long-time community volunteer, encouraged the students to take action and not wait for others to step up when there was a need.

In addition to listening to speakers, the students have participated in several hands-on projects.

The Grade 7 class thoroughly enjoyed making soup for B’Kavod Ladle. This is an ongoing project in which various kinds of soup are made and sold through the Temple Israel community with proceeds going to a soup kitchen in Israel.

Grade 8 students ran a coat and boot drive for the Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter, which generated a large donation of good quality used clothing.

Grades 8 to 10 made two large boxes of sandwiches one evening, which were delivered the next day to Centre 454.

Grades 7 to 10 have served hot meals to the homeless at In From the Cold, a program that provides a warm place, activities and a hot meal once a week during the winter months for the homeless and poor.

Teacher Sheldon Paquin and students Matthew Garber and Dario Chaiquin make soup for B'Kavod Ladle.

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The younger grades have been raising money for the Ryan’s Well Foundation, which helps provide clean drinking water for villages in Africa, and they ran a hotdog sale to raise money for the victims of the forest fires in Israel.

It has been an exciting year for the students and new projects are planned for the coming semester at both the high school and elementary levels.

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The cast and crew of Yitzhak Rabin High School’s production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo: (front, left to right) Cassandra Starosta, Hannah Silver, Michaela Sadinsky, Racheli Mandelker; (back) Jonathan Roytenberg, Raphael Sandler, Itzy Kamil, Jordan Molot, Emma Hamer and Elana Fogel.

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YRHS to perform Alfred Uhry’s The Last Night of Ballyhoo

By Cynthia Bates Yitzhak Rabin High School The school play this year at Yitzhak Rabin High School (Ottawa Jewish Community School) is Alfred Uhry’s Tony-award winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo.

Uhry, an American-Jewish playwright, wrote The Last Night of Ballyhoo as a commission on the occasion of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.

His other well-known play is Driving Miss Daisy and he

is the only playwright to have ever earned a triple crown of entertainment awards: a Pulitzer Prize for Best Play (Driving Miss Daisy), an Oscar for Best Screenplay (Driving Miss Daisy) and a Tony Award for Best Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo).

The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, on the eve of the Second World War and at the time that the movie Gone With the Wind was about to have its world premiere there. Most of the play’s characters form a

disparate family grouping whose Jewish identity seems to have been almost entirely assimilated. Into their lives comes a young man, Joe, a Brooklyn Jew – one of “the other kind” – who is hired by the family patriarch. As Joe interacts with the family members, he challenges their sense of identity.

There is a lot of humour in the script that belies some of the play’s darker themes of exclusion and racism. The Rabin cast is up to the task of providing just the right mix of comedy and drama in this hilarious, but often thoughtprovoking, piece of theatre.

“I play Sunny Freitag in the play,” said student Cassandra Starosta. “I love playing Sunny because she can be shy at times, but is also the first person to speak her opinion, and she is very independent.

Most of Sunny’s family believes that German Jews are more important and should be

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treated better than any other Jew. Sunny herself does not believe in this and she falls for a Brooklyn Jew who is more religious than her family. He is not afraid to comment on the family’s Christmas tree!

With Sunny’s humour, brains and kindness she is a great character to play and an even better character to watch.”

Student Michaela Sadinsky, who was nominated for a Cappie Award last year, plays Beulah Levy (Boo), a southern mother who wishes to provide a happy life to her family.

“Her comedic and sarcastic responses to situations cause Boo to be a very entertaining character,” said Michaela. “Boo seems to be a mean lady, but, underneath it all, she is just hoping for the best for her daughter and herself. The character gives me such an opportunity to grow as an actress.

Also in the cast are last year’s Cappie-nominated actor Raphael Sandler, last year’s Cappie-winning actor Itzy Kamil, along with many other new and talented additions.

Performance dates are Monday to Thursday, February 14 to 17. Tickets are $15 (general admission) and $12 (students and seniors) and are available by calling 613-7220020.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 11

Jewish Memorial Gardens Update:

The cost of Jewish funerals in Ottawa

By John Diener for Jewish Memorial Gardens We published an update about the reorganization of Jewish Memorial Gardens, its function, and the role of its staff and board of directors in the November 29, 2010 edition of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. In this update, we present the costs associated with a Jewish funeral in Ottawa in 2011.

There are three separate groups that provide services to the family of the deceased: the funeral directors, the Ottawa Chevra Kadisha and Jewish Memorial Gardens. Here is a summary of what each of these institutions does, and what you can expect to pay for their role in the funeral process.

The funeral director provides transportation of the deceased from the place of death to the funeral location and then from the funeral site to the cemetery. They also provide vehicles to transport family members and clergy.

The director can also supply a condolence guest book and thank you cards, if requested. Part of their service also includes providing death certificates and other forms required under the Cemeteries Act. The fee for

their service starts at approximately $2,200 and increases based on what services the family chooses. In addition, the director provides the casket for the additional cost of between $850 and $3,000, depending on the casket selected. The funeral director will require payment by credit card before the funeral.

The Ottawa Chevra Kadisha is the burial society, which performs the ritual preparation of the deceased according to Jewish custom, and provides its volunteer members to assist with the funeral.

The Chevra operates the funeral chapel on Cuba Avenue, and provides the prayer books and chairs for the family to use during the shiva. The cost of their service is $900, which Jewish Memorial Gardens collects on their behalf before the funeral.

Jewish Memorial Gardens performs all of the functions that take place at the cemetery. The fees are all payable before the funeral.

The functions and fees include: opening and closing the grave ($850); lowering the casket ($250); interment rights/plot ($3,750 at the Bank Street cemetery, or $2,400 at the Osgoode

cemetery); administration fee ($1,000). Please note that if interment rights/plot were pre-purchased, these charges do not apply at the time of death. As well, if the deceased was not a synagogue member, or did not maintain synagogue membership, there may be an additional charge.

There are other optional costs to consider. These include a shomer to stay with the body before the funeral, which can be arranged through the Chevra Kadisha, honorariums to the clergy and newspaper announcements.

In the months after the burial, the family may choose to purchase flowers for the grave at the cost of $145 per one year, or $3,850 for a guaranteed 25 years.

A matzevah, or monument, is generally erected on the gravesite within the first year, and the family deals directly with the monument maker. A basic matzevah starts at about $2500, increasing in price depending on material, size and design.

For further information on anything related to the costs of funerals, or the services of Jewish Memorial Gardens, please call 613688-3530.

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Page 12 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011

Experiencing Israel with my family just months after Birthright

By Ilana Belfer Awestruck by the idea that I would be travelling to the Holy Land, I visited Israel for the first time in May with the Taglit-Birthright program.

Israel captivated me for weeks before the trip, and for months after my return to Ottawa, as I continued to relive the memories.

I recall getting home and immediately asking my parents how soon we’d take a

family vacation to Israel.

Half joking, I didn’t expect them to take me up on the request.

But my mother had never been to Israel and, as I lovingly nudged, it was something she had to experience. Seven months later, our bags were packed for a winter break in Eretz Yisroel.

We opted to take an organized tour. As I reviewed the itinerary, I worried I

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Israel is small, after all, and I had been there so recently.

I wondered if there was anything new to gain from going back so soon?

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This time, I was travelling with a bunch of families and adults, rather than extraordinarily enthused 19and 20-year-olds. We took the cable car up Masada as opposed to hiking it, soldiers were admired from afar, rather than being roommates, and partying was not checking out local nightlife, but teaching my parents how to operate a hookah.

Anywhere I’d been during the summer was nuanced in the winter’s breeze, and anything I already knew became an opportunity for elaboration.

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hadn’t toured the tunnels last time around. In fact, I hadn’t even realized that the homes of the Muslim quarter are built atop the tunnels, obstructing us from viewing the majority of the Wall.

The holy lump of bricks where people pray suddenly became the massive Western Wall of the temple mount, circa first century BCE, and its importance was revealed to me.

Seeing Bar Mitzvah celebrations there showed me a modern day use for this sacred place.

On Birthright, I had hiked the Golan Heights and surveyed the beautiful surroundings. Nevertheless, I failed to notice the olive (Continued on page 13)

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With each visit, Israel feels more like a home (Continued from page 12)

trees and grape vines that reside there and contribute to Israel’s economy.

In the Judean Desert, last trip, we stayed in Bedouin homes. This time, in the same desert, we visited Qumran, which was home to the Dead Sea Scrolls until their discovery.

Birthright is vigilant in ensuring the safety of its participants, and rightfully so. But, this time, we could take our time in the Arab area of Acre and I was allowed to venture into the Arab markets of the Old City in Jerusalem. I was informed when the bus was driving through the checkpoints of the West Bank and when the partition fence was in sight.

Hearing the calls to Muslim prayer from mosques and seeing the green licence plates identifying Palestinians’ cars, were reminders of both the conflict at hand

and the day-to-day coexistence of Israelis and Palestinians.

If Birthright was an introduction to my book of Israel, this recent trip was the first chapter, going from an overview into the colourful details of specific stories.

Israeli natives guided both tours. They showed us everything from Caesarea, the ancient Roman capital, to the Dead Sea to life on a kibbutz. But, they did so in distinctive styles.

While my first guide was a modern, flamboyant young guy, my second guide was a family man with four kids, two of whom had completed their military service.

Despite dissimilar lifestyles, my impression of both was the same. What I took from them was the amazing amount of pride they have for their country.

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When I say that I took this from them, I do mean that I observed it. However, I also mean it in a literal sense. I began to understand that on the night my family first arrived in Tel Aviv.

As we strolled along the boardwalk, I showed them the hostel I’d stayed in, where to eat, where to shop and where the beaches were. I demonstrated my Hebrew skills and told them what they could expect of our journey.

Throughout the tour, I bickered constantly with my father – in the friendliest possible way, of course – about information, facts and directions. I was determined to be right.

The main difference on this trip was that I was not only experiencing Israel, I was watching my family experience it too, constantly waiting for a smile to appear on their faces. I wanted my family to love Israel just like I did.

The beauty of Israel is that it is always there for

The Belfer family with a view of Jerusalem behind them. (From left) Harvey, Ilana, Suzanne and Jacob Belfer.

Jewish people. Each time you return is not increasingly boring, but rather, it’s like a favourite chair that gets more comfortable every time you sit on it.

With each visit, the country starts to feel more and more like a home. And, if you’re anything like me, you’ll be eager to show it off.

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Visiting Israeli students A group of students from Einot Yarden, the high school in the Upper Galilee twinned with Yitzhak Rabin High School (Ottawa Jewish Community School) spent Chanukah in Ottawa.

“We introduced them to winter Ottawa style: curling, a Sens Hockey night, zip-lining, spelunking, the Parliament buildings, museums and -22 degree weather,” said Head-ofSchools Donna PalmerDodds.

“The students taught our students about life in Israel and practised Hebrew with all of our students. It was an incredible experience!”

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Harriet Schneider honoured at Temple Israel

By Annette Paquin for Temple Israel Harriet Schneider received the Bercovitch/Singer Annual Volunteer Award at Temple Israel’s annual general meeting, November 28. Each year at the AGM, Temple Israel honours a volunteer who has made a significant contribution to the Temple Israel community.

A native of Montreal, Harriet was a founding member of Temple Israel who joined the congregation in 1966. She is a retired librarian having worked at Algonquin College and the Canadian Nurses Association.

The Temple Israel Library was founded 26 years ago. For the past 25 years, Harriet has maintained the collection, recommended reading and research materials, encouraged children to take home books and taken care of all the de-

tails of running an active library.

The library is Reform-oriented, and consists of reference books, Talmud Torah and books about the Holocaust, Jews in Canada and about Israel. There is also a collection of art books. Almost every book published by the Union of Reform Judaism (formerly Union of American Hebrew Congregations) can be found on the shelves.

Harriet is married to Henry and has three children to whom she has passed on her dedication and commitment to learning and synagogue. Her daughter, Dina, is supervisor of the Temple Israel High School program, sings in the Temple Choir and runs the TotShabbat program. Harriet’s grandchildren, Ariel and Jonah, can often be seen at Shabbat and holiday celebrations. Harriet’s two other children live in Kelowna and California.

Harriet Schneider receives the Bercovitch/Singer Annual Volunteer Award. Pictured (from left to right): Paula Speevak-Sladowski, Temple Israel past-president; Schneider; Rabbi Steven Garten; and Heather (Photo: Annette Paquin) Cohen, executive director.

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Promoting quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities in a Jewish environmnent Tamir acknowledges with sincere thanks the following donations, which were received as of December 20, 2010.

Mazel Tov to: Mr. and Mrs. Leon Strawcynski on their 40th wedding anniversary by Marcia and Richard Zuker Mr. and Mrs. H. Waslander on their 40th wedding anniversary by Esther and Abe Tarasofsky Ella Bloomfield on her birthday

by Eddie and Judi Kerzner Laura Penso and Tommy Gelb on their wedding by Louise Sherman Laya and Sol Shabinsky on their wedding anniversary by Deb, Norm and Vicky Ferkin Mrs. Estelle Liberman on her special birthday by Harriette and Saul Brottman Mr. Hymie Reichstein on his birthday by Vera and Malcolm Glube Mrs. Lily Penso on her birthday

by Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Lewis and family Mr. Fred Tabachnick on his 70th birthday by Esther and David Kwavnick Mr. Norman Lesh on his 80th birthday by Roz and Lee Raskin; by Betty and Jay Dover; and by David Moskovic and Ruth Calof In celebration of the special birthday of Norman Lesh, a generous donation was made to Tamir by his children and grandchildren Rabbi and Mrs. Arnold Fine on the engagement of Talia and Chaim

by Jerry and Lily Penso Mr. Arnold Tennenhouse on his birthday by Selma, Les and Naomi, Evan, Carol and Miriam, Joel, Nancy, Michael Matt and Zack Mrs. Faye Tennenhouse on her birthday by Sellma, Les and Naomi, Evan, Carol and Miriam, Joel, Nancy, Michael, Matt and Zack Stephen and Deborah Schneiderman on the engagement of Stacey to Stephen Rich by Paul and Sharon Finn and family Mrs. Bonnie Merovitz on being honoured by the International Lions of Judah by Lynn and Brian Keller Lynn and Brian Keller on the birth of their grandson Michael by Sally Taller

Dr. and Mrs. Howard Cohen on their 30th wedding anniversary by Evelyn and Norman Potechin Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Rossman on their son’s engagement by Evelyn and Norman Potechin Jerry and Lois Nudelman on their wedding anniversary by Judi and Eddie Kerzner Mr. Mitchell Levy and Mrs. Lisa Starkman-Levy on the birth of their son, Beau Lennox Levy by the participants, staff and Board of Directors of Tamir Tova Bonn and Charles Brito on their wedding by Dr. Shlomo Litwin Andy and Joany Katz on the engagement of Jaclyn and Ivan by Sharon and Paul Finn and family Burt and Jackie Gorenstein on the birth of their grandson by Jerry and Lily Penso Refuah Shlemah to: Mr. Irwin Brodo by Michael and Sylvia Caplan Mrs. Noreen Bosloy by Judi Bodnoff and Rubin Burstyn Mrs. Lisa Losacco by Debbie and Norm Ferkin Mrs. Bev Cantor by Deb and Norm Ferkin Mrs. Sue Fisher by David Moskovic and Ruth Calof; by Debbie, Norm and Vicky Ferkin and by Marion Silver, Allan Brass and family Mrs. Dale Browning-Wyman by Deb, Norm and Vicky Ferkin In Memory of: Donald Hyman by Ivan Kesler and Frances Freedman-Kesler Esther Goldstein by Arnold and Faye Tennenhouse; and by Anita, Brent, Alyssa and Ryan Almstedt Leonard Michael Karp by the Participants, Staff and Board of Directors of Tamir Dr. Fred Schwartz by Judi and Ed Kerzner Father of Gustavo Strahman by Jerry and Lily Penso and family Mother of Dr. Lorne Weiner by Lois and Jerry Nudelman Beryl Jacobson by Ed and Judi

Kerzner; by Participants, Staff and Board of Directors of Tamir; and by Zelda and Stephen Shore Dr. Martin Tatz by Ed and Judi Kerzner Miriam Sussman by Jack and Lesley Cramer; and by Esther and Abe Tarasofsky Sonya Bodnoff by Evelyn and Norman Potechin; by Sally Taller; and by Judi and Edward Kerzner Irwin Rose by Deb and Norm Ferkin Garth Wilson by Deb and Norm Ferkin Bill McKay by Irene Waxman, Sandy, Gerry, Chad, Ruth and Rian Bayne Anne Bell by the Participants, Staff and Board of Directors of Tamir;

by Esther and David Kwavnick; and

by Gary, Cheryl, Justin and Alexa Rotman Bert Bronsther by Irene Waxman and family Friend of Betty Reich by Evelyn and Norm Potechin John Holzman by Jerry and Lily Penso General: Wishing Lily a happy birthday and a Happy New Year to the Penso family by Moe Cardash and Lillian Cardash Welcome back Linda Signer and best wishes in her new job by Deb, Norm and Vicky Ferkin Welcome home Lee Curry and wishing him a long and happy retirement by Deb, Norm and Vicky Ferkin Wishing Carrie Meil much success with the opening of Six Hand Bakery by Debbie and Norm Ferkin In observance of the yartzeit of a dear brother Arthur Lazear by Sonia and Sheldon Shaffer With thanks and appreciation to Dr. James Lazowski by Elissa Iny Wishing Sue Walker well in her new home by Deb, Norm and Vicky Ferkin In appreciation to Cantor Benlolo

by Steven and Shelli Kimmel In honour of Gail Driscoll for Christmas by Lynn McFarlane

Donation cards can be purchased for a minimum charge of $18.00 by contacting the Tamir office at 613-7253519, 11 Nadolny Sachs Private, Suite 218, Ottawa, Ontario, K2A 1R9, or by e-mail to aalmstedt@tamir.ca.

AJA 50+ has launched a scholarship fund for the Ottawa Jewish Community School. AJA 50+ President Cecily Bregman is seen with students (front, left to right) Aliza Popky, Ben Dodek, Maayan Waldman; (rear) (Photo: Robin Chernick) Jordan Molot, Tandia Molot.

AJA 50+ bridges generations with 10th anniversary scholarship initiative

By Merle Haltrecht-Matte for AJA 50+ In our 10 years of existence, AJA 50+ (Active Jewish Adults 50+) has grown from four founders and a handful of members to more than 400 today.

In 2000, Cecily Bregman, Estelle Gunner, Teena Hendelman and Ruth Levitan recognized the lack of programming for the growing population of Jewish seniors in Ottawa, and AJA 50+ was born. In the first year, 200 enthusiastic seniors attended such programs as lectures, outings and exercise. Over the years, the membership and the program offerings have continued to grow. The last session, fall 2010, had the highest number of programs offered and the greatest participation.

As a grassroots organization, the programming is decided on by the members themselves and new ideas are introduced throughout the year.

“Innovative, wide-ranging programs are appealing to all,” says AJA 50+ President Cecily Bregman.

As part of the AJA 50+ 10th anniversary celebration,

a gala fundraiser event will be held May 25 at Congregation Beth Shalom. The funds raised will help ensure that AJA 50+ can continue to offer new and stimulating programs to seniors.

And, in an exciting new ‘Bridge the Generations’ initiative, proceeds will also be used to establish an AJA 50+ Scholarship Fund for the Ottawa Jewish Community School (Hillel Academy and Yitzhak Rabin High School) to help alleviate some of the financial burden on young Jewish families.

The 10th anniversary gala will feature a special program to honour the founding members as well as entertainment and a fabulous meal.

AJA 50+ members and the community-at-large are invited to attend the 10th Anniversary Gala and to ‘Bridge the Generations.’

To reserve tickets, send an e-mail to ajatickets@yahoo.ca.

To become a corporate or private sponsor, contact Sara Shabsove at sandh@rogers.com.

To place an ad or good wishes in the commemorative booklet, contact Sheela Silverman sheelaozzie@rogers.com.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 17

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Ottawa celebrates Chanukah

Machzikei Hadas Rabbi Reuven Bulka and Cantor Pinchas Levinson celebrate the fourth night of Chanukah at (Photo: Alex Sarna) Congregation Machzikei Hadas.

JFS Chanukah Party Zachary Thompson (left) and Antonio Braun look at the Chanukah candles at the Jewish Family Services Staff and Families Chanukah (Photo: Andrea Gardner) Party, December 2.

Shiru Lach Choir at Hillel Lodge The Soloway JCC Shiru Lach Choir celebrates a freilechen Chanukah evening with the residents of Hillel Lodge.

Torah High Torah High student Adam Sherman lights the first candle in class.

Each of the nine Torah High classes held a Chanukah party with doughnuts, latkes, a gift exchange, lighting of the candles, and an explanation of the meaning of the holiday.

Ottawa Modern Jewish School Ottawa Modern Jewish School students enjoy their Chanukah celebration at the Soloway JCC.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 19

Ottawa celebrates Chanukah

Glow in the Dark (Above) Nepean Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod addresses the crowd following candle lighting at the Ottawa Torah Centre’s A Glow in the Dark Chanukah.

Temple Israel (Top right) Temple Israel students and Rabbi Steven Garten join in an interactive theatre production led by Frank Levy of Stories in Motion from New (Photo: Ada Aizenberg) Orleans.

Chanukah Fun Fest (Bottom right) Families enjoy an afternoon filled with fun Chanukah crafts, games, refreshments, and sing-along at the Chanukah Fun Fest hosted by JET and the Soloway JCC, December 5.

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Ottawa celebrates Chanukah

Jewish Culture Clubs Ethan Morrill lights the candles at Merivale High School. NCSY helped students run Jewish Culture Club Chanukah parties at seven (Photo: Irv Osterer) public high schools.

Perley Rideau Veterans Centre Students from Hillel Ottawa join Rabbi Arnold Fine to spread Chanukah Cheer, December 8, at Perley Rideau Veterans Centre.

(Photo: Ross Diamond)

AJA 50+ David Michaelson entertains at the AJA 50+ Chanukah party.

(Photo: Ada Aizenberg)

OTC Chabad Hebrew School Grade 4 students perform at Chabad Hebrew School`s Chanukah party.

CHW at SJCC Chanukah Fair Members of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO gather round the table, November 21, at the Soloway JCC Chanukah Gift and Book Fair.

JUL kickoff and Chanukah celebration Rabbi Gavriel Friedman (a.k.a. Rav Gav) gives an inspiring talk at the Jewish Unity Live kickoff event and Chanukah celebration at the Gladstone Theatre on the sixth night of Chanukah.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 21

Ten Yad of Ottawa launching Bikur Cholim division

By Jacqueline Shabsove for Ten Yad of Ottawa Ten Yad of Ottawa will launch its Bikur Cholim division with an orientation evening and volunteer training session on January 30.

The organization, founded just over two years ago, serves Ottawa’s Jewish community through acts of chesed and family support.

With almost 150 registered volunteers, Ten Yad’s team has facilitated, cooked and delivered an average of two meals per day, every day over the past two years, 1,200 in all.

Ten Yad has also established kosher pantries at the

Queensway Carleton Hospital and at the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital. Plans are underway to establish similar services at the other campuses of the Ottawa Hospital.

As well, volunteers have provided drivers for individuals to visit their families in hospitals, among many other services.

Now Ten Yad is inviting both current and new volunteers to participate in a professionally facilitated training session on how to be an effective source of encouragement, comfort and support for those facing an acute illness (bikur cholim).

Visiting the sick is an extraordinary mitzvah and one can easily make a difference in the life of another just by taking a little time out of one’s schedule. “Ottawa is widely regarded as a special community,� said Esti Fogel, chair of Ten Yad. “In part, because of the sense of family that characterizes our community. Ten Yad’s Bikur Cholim project offers individuals a wonderful opportunity to translate that sense of community into meaningful practice.�

Volunteers will be called on to assist with families who require help managing shortterm, acute situations. Visits

Canadian rabbinical school plans to open next year

By Sue Fishkoff (JTA) – When the opening of a new rabbinical school is announced, the obvious first question for many is: What denomination is it?

In the case of a new yeshiva and rabbinical seminary planned for Toronto, the answer isn’t quite clear.

For now, the plan is for the Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School, which calls itself “traditional yet modern,� to open fully by 2012.

The idea of opening the rabbinical seminary is to train liberal halachic rabbis who will be well suited to meet the needs of Canadian Jewry. Organizers say they are aiming at a middle ground between Conservative Judaism and what they describe as an

increasingly rigid Orthodox movement. “I’m somewhat disenchanted with what’s happening in the rabbinic establishment in the United States, especially the direction Yeshiva University has taken, which has moved to the right,� said Rabbi Daniel Sperber, Talmud professor at Israel’s BarIlan University and 1992 winner of the Israel Prize.

Rabbi Sperber, an outspoken rabbi on the left edge of Orthodoxy, has agreed to serve as the new yeshiva’s chancellor. The institution already has a board of governors, trustees, some 40 faculty members and a list of potential students.

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Nili Szilagyi, who heads up the Bikur Cholim division, emphasized the importance of making this service widely known throughout the Ottawa Jewish community. “We want the community to use this service and we encourage those who can benefit from it to contact us,� said Szilagyi.

Guest speakers at the orientation session will be Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, who will discuss the importance of bikur cholim from a rabbinic perspective, and nurse Alice Retik, who will provide training on visiting the sick.

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Ottawa celebrates Chanukah

Chanukah food drive The Chabad Student Network of Ottawa teamed up with AEPi Ottawa to build a large can-norah, a menroah built from 800 cans of food, which was later donated to homeless shelters. The CSN/AEPi Chanukah event was held at the University of Ottawa’s Tabaret Hall.

Playing dreidl Ottawa Jewish Community School Grade 3 students Sabrina Smith, Yael Tarasofsky, Rachel Goldfield, Kayla Reichstein and Kayla Sabloff enjoying their dreidl games. (Photo: Ada Aizenberg)

Canadian Hadassah-WIZO Members of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO Ottawa Centre celebrate Chanukah, December 8.

Hillel Ottawa at Grace Manor Hillel Ottawa students Adam Moscoe, Chelsea Sauvé, Ilan Mucher, and Marina Taptich entertain with Chanukah Songs, December 7, at the Salvation Army Grace Manor.

Ottawa Police Service Lighting the Chanukah candles Students at the Benlolo School join Cantor Daniel Benlolo in lighting the candles on the seventh night of Chanukah.

Councillor Rick Chiarelli, Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn, Mayor Jim Watson, Councillor Keith Egli, Jewish Federation of Ottawa President and CEO Mitchell Bellman and Deputy Police Chief Charles Bordeleau prepare to cut the cake following a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony at Ottawa Police Service headquarters.

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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 November 24, 2010 and January 4, 2011 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.

Ruth and Irving Aaron Family Fund In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Ruth and Irving Aaron In Honour of: Janice and Ed Fine Mazel Tov and best wishes on the birth of your granddaughter with love Ruth and Irving Aaron Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Lillian Kimmel by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Marilyn Adler.

Sol Kaiman by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler Bessie Taller by Marilyn Adler and Neil Blacher; and by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler Oscar Luger by Marilyn Adler and Neil Blacher; and by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler; by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler In Honour of: Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Mazal Tov on your daughter’s engagement by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler; and by Marilyn Adler, Neil and Daniel Blacher Blanche and Joey Osterer Best wishes on your return home by Elayne Adler, Farley, Jordan and Benjamin Stenzler R’fuah Shlema: Carolyn Katz by Marilyn Adler and Neil Blacher Samuel and Jean Akerman Memorial Fund In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Sheila and Larry Hartman and family Auxiliary of Hillel Lodge Fund In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Ed and Betty Rose; by Estelle and Sol

Gunner; by Sandy and Michael Shaver; by Sally Taller; by Dee and Yale Gaffen; by Eileen, Ann and Stan Goldberg; by Edie Landau; by Carol and Laurie Pascoe; by Ingrid Levitz;

by Alan and Marlene Rubin; by Sydney and Fanette Cantor;

by Helen and Jonah Miller; by Kelly Ducharme and Michel Lachance; by Howard and Allison Rubin; by Molly Hirsch and Eric Elkin; by Beverly and David Gluzman; by Marcia and Dick Zuker; by Bonnie and Harry Levy; by Anne Koffman, the Lyman and Bokhaut families; by Renee Moses;

by Sollie and Sybil Goldmaker; by Irma Sachs; by Debi and David Shore; by Daryll Miller; by Marion Silver, Alan Brass and family; by Isabelle and Allan Cantor; and by Sally Taller In Honour of: Sheela and Ozzie Silverman Mazal Tov on the birth of your second grandson Gabriel by Sonja and Ron Kesten.

Dora and Sam Litwack Mazal Tov on the Bar Mitzvah of your grandson by Sonja and Ron Kesten Fred and Esther Ballon Family Fund In Memory of: Neil Moses by Freddie and Esther Ballon and family Bessie Taller by Freddie and Esther Ballon Abe and Bea Dubinsky Endowment Fund In Memory of: Bernard Karas by Bea Dubinsky Bessie Taller by Bea Dubinsky Joel and Sharon Edelson Family Fund In Memory of: Dina Edelson by Barb Fine Joseph Ginsberg by Sharon and Joel Edelson Tania Firestone Family Fund In Honour of: Sam and Susan Firestone Very happy Chanukah with love by Ida Firestone Phil Firestone and Susan Caplan Firestone Very happy Chanukah with love by Ida Firestone Bob and Lindsey Firestone Very happy Chanukah with love by Ida Firestone Cathy Maron and family Very happy Chanukah with love by Ida Firestone Sharon and Lawrie Weinstein Very happy Chanukah with love by Ida Firestone Friedberg and Dale Families Fund In Honour of: Jeff and Debbie Scharf Mazel Tov on the birth of your daughter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale.

Shoshana Stern Mazel Tov of the birth of your granddaughter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Janice and Ed Fine Mazal Tov on the birth of your granddaughter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Susan Leonard Kerzner Mazal Tov on the birth of your granddaughter by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Ellie and Joel Kanigsberg Mazal Tov on the birth of your grandson by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Ian Sadinsky and Joan Bercovitch Mazal Tov on the birth of your grandson by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Irit and Harry Beck Mazal Tov on the birth of your first grandchild by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale

R’fuah Shlema: Annie Garmaise by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Les Breiner by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale In Memory of: Marlene Stoller by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Adin Wellman by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Malcolm and Vera Glube Endowment Fund In Honour of: Susan Kampel Happy 70th birthday and happy New Year by Vera and Malcolm Glube Bill and Flora Silverman Congratulations and best wishes on your 50th wedding anniversary by Vera and Malcolm Glube Martin Stein Love and best wishes on your 65th birthday by Vera and Malcolm Glube In Memory of: Lillian Silverman by Vera and Malcolm Glube Michael Alatzas’ sister by Vera and Malcolm Glube John Holzman by Vera and Malcolm Glube Bessie Taller by Vera and Malcolm Glube Nell Gluck Memorial Fund In Honour of: Naomi Shuman Mazel Tov on your completion of your MA from LSE. A wonderful achievement by Maureen and Henry Molot Mira Shuman Mazel Tov on receiving a fellowship in Women’s Health. A wonderful achievement by Maureen and Henry Molot Robin Mader Mazal Tov on David’s engagement to Lindsay with love by the Molots Mr. and Mrs. N. Scott Mazal Tov on David’s engagement to Lindsay with love by the Molots David Mader Mazal Tov on your engagement with love by the Molots Evelyn Rivers Mazal Tov on becoming a grandmother

by Henry and Maureen Molot Alex Molot Best wishes on your milestone birthday with love by Julia Gluck, Ted Overton and Jess In Memory of: Joseph Ginsberg by Manny Gluck and Sheryle Hothersall Bessie Taller by Maureen and Henry Molot Laren Stadelman’s mother by Julia Gluck and Ted Overton Bob Goodman’s father by Julia Gluck and Ted Overton Roslyn Gluck by Julia Gluck and Ted Overton John Holzman by Manny Gluck and Sheryle Hothersall Evelyn and Irving Greenberg Fund In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Evelyn Greenberg Gunner Family Fund In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Estelle and Sol Gunner Frank and Lily Hoffenberg Family Fund In Honour of: Elaine Wolfish Happy birthday by Ron and Roseanne Hoffenberg Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Family Fund R’fuah Shlema: Susan Fisher by Nordau and Roz Kanigsberg David, Harvey, Victor Kardish Family Fund In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Margo, David, Aaron and Gail Kardish Bessie Taller by Margo, David, Aaron and Gail Kardish Irwin Rose by Sheryl and Harvey Kardish

Dorothy and Maurie Karp Endowment Fund In Memory of: Nelu Moses by Dorothy Karp Kassirer Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ginsberg by Rita Finnigan and Jay Kassirer.

Dr. Archie Kassirer by Teena and Uri Goldberg; Iris Bradley; and by Edith Orton Morris and Lillian Kimmel Family Fund In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Lillian Kimmel by Anna Heilman In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Morris Kimmel and family In Honour of: Marty and Rickie Saslove Mazal Tov on your wedding anniversary by Morris Kimmel and family Bill and Phyllis Leith Family Endowment Fund In Memory of: Ike David by David, Lisa, Sidney and Zachary Leith John Holzman by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel In Honour of: Jack Shore Best wishes on your special birthday by David, Lisa, Sidney and Zachary Leith Dodo and Leon Bronstein Mazal Tov on your 50th wedding anniversary by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel Flora and Bill Silverman Mazal Tov on your 50th wedding anniversary and our sympathy on the loss of your dear mother Lillian Silverman by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel Bryna and Murray Cohen Mazal Tov on the birth of your new grandchild and on Lewis’s engagement by Roslyn and Arnie Kimmel Shirley and Maurice Rose Memorial Fund In Honour of: Esther Greenberg Best wishes and love on your special birthday by Mavis and Simon Wasserberger Shelley and Sidney Rothman Family Fund In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Shelley Rothman and family Bessie Taller by Shelley Rothman Irma and Harold Sachs Family Fund In Memory of: Joseph Ginsberg by Irma Sachs Emile Benlolo by Irma Sachs; and by Micah Zumar John Holzman by Irma Sachs Enid Zumar by Irma Sachs Schachter-Ingber Family Fund In Honour of: Paul Finn Wishing you a wonderful and special (insert number of years or decades as you see fit) birthday. We pray for your continued good humour, devotion to family and friends, and work in the community. Happy to share the best kept secret with anyone reading this…Happy Birthday Paul

by Rachel, Howard, Davida and Josh Schachter Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Family Fund In Honour of: Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Congratulations on your daughter’s engagement by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor; and by Barbara Fine Cheryl and Leslie Ginsberg Mazel Tov on the birth of your grandson, Lev Alexander by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman and Family.

Joany and Andy Katz Mazel Tov on Jaclyn and Ivan’s engagement by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman.

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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 Bev at 613-728-3900, extension 111, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Friday. You may also e-mail your orders to donations@hillel-ltc.com. 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.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 25

New ‘liberal halachic’ rabbinical school taking shape in Toronto (Continued from page 21)

than 350,000 Jews and some 250 synagogues. The Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal, opened in 1941, operates under the auspices of Chabad-Lubavitch.

Rabbi Sperber says he was drawn to the new institution’s vision of “a more liberal, more friendly approach to halachah,” or Jewish law.

The school will not be affiliated with any existing synagogue movement.

“We’ve shied away from terminology,” said Rabbi Roy Tanenbaum, the driving force behind the new yeshiva and past president of the Canadian region of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Association. Saying that the program “is not for everyone,” Tanenbaum described its worldview as “totally halachic and particularly Canadian.”

Canada’s synagogues are served now by rabbis trained in

Randall Starr (left), chair of the Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School, talks to Rabbi Roy Tanenbaum (centre) and Archbishop Tom Collins about the school to open in Toronto in 2012.

(Photo: Frost Photographic)

the United States or overseas.

Rabbi Tanenbaum says they often are unfamiliar with the Canadian scene and “look toward Washing-

ton instead of Ottawa.”

Canadian Jewry is more traditional than its U.S. counterpart.

A number of Conservative congre-

Claire Rosemary Happy birthday by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Laya Jacobsen Thank you for the lovely painting for Emma-Jeanne by Bill, Sharie and Laura Saunders In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Laya and Ted Jacobsen

(Continued from page 24)

Jaclyn Katz and Ivan Mitar Mazel Tov on your engagement! We are so excited and happy for you by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman In Memory of: Lillian Aronoff by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman Bessie Taller by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman Lilian Gimple by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman John Holzman by Debra and Stephen Schneiderman Harold and Lillian Shoihet Memorial fund In Memory of: Fred Madoff by Dovid and Miriam Shoihet Label and Leona Silver Family Fund In Memory of: Beverly Hirsch’s father by Label and Leona Silver Skulsky Family Memorial Fund In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Bunny and Sam Halpern Ralph and Anne Sternberg Memorial Fund R’fuah Shlema: Michael Miloff’’s Mother with love by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Franny Shier warmest wishes by Laya and Ted Jacobsen In Honour of: Brian Pascal, Nathaly Pinchuk and family on the recent opening of Richmond Galleries with warmest wishes by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Natalie Gussman Happy birthday with warmest wishes

by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Barry and Lynnie Shulman and family Mazal Tov on the doctorate of your daughter-in-law, Dr Jessica Shulman with warmest wishes by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Harvey Slipacoff In appreciation by Laya and Ted Jacobsen

Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund In Memory of: Sarah Swedler by Susan Elias Bessie Taller by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin Emile Benlolo by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin John Holzman by Arnie Swedler Roslyn and Myles Taller Family Endowment Fund In Memory of: Bertram Bronsther by Roz and Myles Taller Bessie Taller by Roz and Myles Taller Lil Cohen’s sister Essie by Roz and Myles Taller Milton and Mary (Terry) Viner Family Fund In Memory of: Bert Bronsther by Millie Schaenfield In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Doris Schaenfield by Millie Schaenfield Jake Belfour by Millie Schaenfield Fanny Belfour by Millie Schaenfield

gations recently left the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism to join the Canadian Council of Conservative Synagogues, and several of the new yeshiva’s leaders have been affiliated with the Union for Traditional Judaism, which split off from the Conservative movement decades ago and is based in Teaneck, N.J. The Canadian Yeshiva and Rabbinical School has been invited to join the Toronto School of Theology, a consortium of seven Christian seminaries connected with the University of Toronto.

If the deal goes through, the school will be able to grant advanced degrees jointly with the university, a bonus Rabbi Tanenbaum hopes will attract students, faculty and funding. The school will be housed on the university campus.

The new institution has not yet launched fundraising or recruitment campaigns, and needs approximately $7 million to open,

Nancy by Carole and Norman Zagerman and Andrea and Laurie Arron In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Carole and Norman Zagerman and Andrea Arron In Memory of: Mavis Dover by Carole and Norman Zagerman Sonya Bodnoff by Carole and Norman Zagerman John Holzman by Carole and Norman Zagerman and Andrea Arron Feeding Program Fund In Memory of: Irwin Rose by Ethel and Abe Murray Bessie Taller by Mara and Isaac Muzikansky and family; and by Goldie Cantor In Honour of: Harold Sachs Happy 80th birthday by Irma Sachs Recreation/Music Fund In Memory of: Bessie Taller by Sally Matook Ritual Fund In Honour of: Rabbi Arnie and Chevy Fine Mazal Tov on the marriage of their granddaughter by Dale and Ruth Fyman **************

Eric Weiner and Arlene Godfrey Family Fund In Memory of: Sonya Bodnoff by Eric Weiner, Arlene Godfrey, Melissa and Laura Bertram Bronsther by Eric Weiner, Arlene Godfrey, Melissa and Laura; by Miriam and Louis Weiner Lillian Aronoff by Eric Weiner and Arlene Godfrey Joseph Ginsberg by Miriam and Louis Weiner and family Bessie Taller by Miriam and Louis Weiner Carole and Norman Zagerman Family Fund In Honour of: Barbara and Sid Cohen Mazal Tov on the Bar and Bat Mitzvah of your wonderful grandchildren by Carole and Norman Zagerman Sally and Elliott Levitan Mazal Tov on the marriage of your grandson Eddie by Carole and Norman Zagerman Linda and Kenny Mirsky Mazal Tov on your granddaughter Hannah’s Bat Mitzvah and Ross’ engagement to

IN HONOUR OF: Dorothy Nadolny Happy Chanukah by Phyllis and Max Sternthal Ian Melzer Best wishes on your special birthday by Peter and Minda Wershof Bonnie Merovitz Congratulations on receiving the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award by Charna and Joseph Mittelman Elaine Wolfish Best wishes on your special birthday by Bill and Jane James Joel and Ellie Kanigsberg Congratulations on the birth of your grandson by Dale and Ruth Fyman Janice and Ed Fine Congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter by Dale and Ruth Fyman Ingrid Levitz In appreciation and love by Arlene and Gary Bonn and family Dr. and Mrs. Gary Bonn Mazal Tov on Tova’s marriage

by Ed and Betty Rose Seymour Mender Thanks for you help by Joel Kom

according to Rabbi Tanenbaum.

Full-time rabbinic students will receive free tuition and residence.

“We won’t open until we can guarantee that a student who begins will be able to finish,” he said.

Rabbi Sperber, who is on the advisory board of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school in New York founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss, says the major hurdle will be attracting more Orthodox faculty. If the new school becomes identified as a Conservative institution – a possibility, given that most of its leadership is Conservative – Rabbi Sperber said he will withdraw.

Noting that the Rabbinical Council of America, the main body representing Modern Orthodox rabbis in North America, does not accept graduates of Chovevei Torah, Sperber said, “It is precisely for that sort of reason that one has to support [halachic] institutions of a more liberal nature.”

Bernie and Donna Dolansky Mazal Tov on your daughter Gillian’s engagement by Anna and Ronny Cantor IN MEMORY OF: Donald Taylor by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge.

Allan Solman by Carolyn and Sid Katz and Elayna, Bill and Adam Sonya Bodnoff by Barb Fine; and by Joy Bodnoff; Janet Wendy Last by Belle Gitterman Neil (Zvi) Moses by Larry and Betty Levy; by Rhonda, Russell, Samantha and Amanda Brewes; by Dora and Israel Kogut; Elizabeth Carveth and Will Lawrie; by Irv and Dorothy Raxlin; by Sandy and Michael Shaver; by The Law Group at OLG; Carolyn and Sid Katz; by Barbara Cromar; by the Vered Family and Staff at Ron Engineering and Construction (Eastern) Ltd.; by Ethel Landis; by Barbara-Jo Lawrence, and by Kamal Kirpalani, Deepa Advani-Turner, Sunita Advani, Hansa Advani and Hiroo Kipalani Joseph Ginsberg by Maurice Ryant; by Max and Phyllis Sternthal; by Bev and Bryan Glube; by Francoise and Ron Vexler; by Marcia and Richard Zuker; by Marion Vexler; by Bonnie and Allan Weber; by Susie CaplanFirestone and Philip Firestone; by Arlene and Gary Bonn and family; by Rhonda and Danny Levine; by Mary and Paul Mirsky, Millie and Steve Mirsky; by Blueprint Public Relations; by Ginsberg Gluzman Fage and Levitz; by Muriel Ginsberg and Wendy Wright; and by Ursula and Mary Scott and Sean Kelly Bertram Bronsther by the Residents, Board and Staff of Hillel Lodge; by Doug Burgess and Grania Allen; by Sally Taller; by Miriam Levitin; Marsha and Art Saper; by Jamie Solman; and by Arlene Goodman Misha Byer by Rhonda and Danny Levine Lily Silverman by Rhonda and Danny Levine Pearl Aronoff’s sister by Rhonda and Danny Levine Dina Edelson by Marjorie and Eli Edelson Bessie Taller by Larry and Carol Gradus; by Claire and Irving Bercovitch, by Anna and Ronny Cantor and family John Holzman by Bev and Bryan Glube; and by Debi and David Shore; by Anna and Ronny Cantor Lillian Silverman by Bev and Bryan Glube and family;

by Anna and Ronny Cantor; and by Arlene and Norman Glube R’FUAH SHLEMA: Steven Waxman by Shirley Viner Yizhaq Nayvelt by Toba Shuster Carolyn Katz by Pat and Martin Marcus

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One large family As soon as you enter Hillel Lodge, you can’t help being impressed with the building, its warmth and its decor.

As you make your way through the building, you are struck by the homelike atmosphere, the wealth of supplies and equipment, the variety and diversity of programs and, last but not least, the abundance of staff and volunteers delivering quality service to the residents. You can’t help noticing the many extras designed for comfort, the uniqueness of the culture and the sense of community. It is not uncommon to witness the kibbitzing, the noshing and the frielech conversations that accompany activities and events.

everyone doing their part to financially support the success we enjoy in providing high quality care to our residents.

All this doesn’t happen by itself, or without considerable expense. The price tag is over $175 per person per day – well over $5,000 per resident per month. We’re proud to provide such a high-quality level of care to our residents. The community wouldn’t have it any other way, and neither would we.

We need families to understand that they have a role to play in helping maintain the high standards we enjoy and preserve the central value we hold so dear: namely, Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother. Collectively we need people in the community to understand that Hillel Lodge and its values are also about one large family when it comes to maintaining above standard levels of care.

But there’s another aspect to this, something many people may not know. Government funding isn’t set up to provide this high level of quality, not by a long shot. Resident fees, fixed by government policy, cover only a portion of the costs incurred by a heimeshe institution like ours. We operate, quite intentionally, well beyond standard levels of care in countless ways. Given that, how do we afford to do what we do?

The answer is, it happens because of tremendous sacrifice and effort. It should never be taken for granted. It will not continue to happen without

Chanukah at the Lodge

The thing that has always distinguished Hillel Lodge as a special home is the dedication of the community-atlarge and our residents’ families.

Regardless of setting, the family continues to be the focal point of the residents and our residents continue to depend on their families. So does the Lodge.

The Lodge is both an individual and collective responsibility. It is Our Home. It takes each of us and all of us to make a difference.

Hillel Lodge is about to embark on a major capital campaign. Its main focus will be to raise the money needed to expand our capacity by the 21 beds recently allocated to us by the provincial government. That’s obviously an extremely important objective for us and for the community-at-large. But the capital campaign, vital as it is to our collective futures, can’t sidetrack us from the need to provide a high level of support for our current residents. We trust that our residents’ families and others in the community will continue to recognize this.

Lighting the chanukia

Entertaining with music

And (of course) lots of dancing

If you want to make a difference in people’s lives (including your own), give volunteering at Hillel Lodge a try. The time commitment can range from a few hours per month to regular weekly or bi-weekly visits. To become a volunteer, please contact Marilyn Adler, our Manager of Recreation and Volunteer Programs.

Hillel Lodge is proud of the quality care we provide to our residents. To make a donation, please contact the Long-Term Care Foundation at (613) 728-3900 extension 111 or e-mail us at donations@hillel-ltc.com.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 27

The challenges of teaching and learning A great thing about having a four-year-old is piggybacking on their preschool curriculum. This year, they are studying distilled versions of the ethical teachings of Pirkei Avot. A recent lesson came from the verse “Make for yourself a teacher; acquire for yourself a friend.” A great teacher, of course, can’t guarantee a receptive learner. As a professor myself, I know my students are usually open to joining me on the learning path I clear for them. But they are not always ready, able or open.

Two recent experiences – one in the gym, the other in the synagogue, have made this challenge come alive for me as a student. Last year, I took up basketball after three decades off the courts. Early in the session, my coach looked askew at how I held the ball. Seems I was sandwiching it awkwardly between my palms, one on top of the other. He showed me another way, one that would shield my shot from a thieving defence. I was puzzled. I distinctly remembered that my dad had taught me that precise palm hold 30 years ago at the YMHA in Winnipeg. My dad couldn’t be wrong, could he?

A few weeks ago, my father came from Vancouver to visit.

While in town, he accompanied me to my basketball class at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. During halftime, he found an open net and took some free throws. I saw my coach glance over, smiling. Sure enough, my dad was sandwiching the ball between his palms, exactly as I had been doing. When class was over, the coach gave my dad a few new pointers.

“No wonder I was always more accurate when playing solo,” my dad mused. Seems many a 1950s defender had also blocked his shots during game play.

That same week, I began preparing to chant the Haftarah at an upcoming Shabbat service at shul. I had learned the trop (musical notes) for my Bat Mitzvah back in 1984, but my memory was spotty, so I went to my cantor for a study session. But, when the cantor started singing the notes, I noticed that a few of the incantations differed slightly from what I recalled.

The trop can get a little complex, and I was nervous about relearning notes that were half buried in my memory somewhat differently. But, if I were to be really honest, I knew it was unadulterated nostalgia that led me to place a call to Winnipeg the next day.

I called Cantor Gerry Daien who had trained me for my Bat Mitzvah all those years ago. He happily obliged, singing the trop into the phone. Of course, they weren’t wildly different from my own cantor’s: a short scale instead of a triad here, a truncated series of notes there. But, to my ears, they were like an old pair of shoes – my white and green 1984 Stan Smiths, to be precise. All that was missing was my scratchy Bat Mitzvah training cassette.

I learned that Cantor Daien had studied with the celebrated Cantor Benjamin Brownstone in mid-century Winnipeg, and had adapted some of the notes to suit his style. I figured that perhaps I would adopt a mixture of his trop, and those of my own cantor, thus creating my own version. If my new cantor sings in a beautiful and highly honed classical style and my old cantor is a melodic and earthy Neil Diamond, I guess I could aspire to a Norah Jones feel from the bimah. (Though, how to passionately render a passage about the prophesied floor plan and construc-

Values, Ethics, Community Mira Sucharov tion measurements of the Temple will no doubt be a challenge.)

When it comes time for my kids to prepare for their B’nai Mitzvah, they will, of course, learn the trop from their own cantor. They will develop their own sets of memories and their own nostalgia points. And the product will be perfectly their product.

Many teachers come in and out of our lives. Sometimes teachers come in unexpected forms. They may be old and wise, or young and innocent. They may be professionals or hobbyists.

They may not even be aware that they are teaching. We are not always ready to absorb new perspectives, but our knowledge and experience is made richer by listening to all the voices that come our way.

As for my basketball shot, I shall cherish the memories of afternoons shooting hoops with my dad, but adapt my style according to coach’s orders. My passing is good, my dribbling not bad, but my scoring could use some improvement, after all.

Mira Sucharov, an associate professor of political science at Carleton University, blogs at the Huffington Post.

A true story of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany The Year of Goodbyes: A true story of friendship, family and farewells

By Debbie Levy Disney Hyperion 120 pages. Ages 12 and up.

Among current concerns, the Canadian government is once again trying to determine how to handle would-be immigrants and refugees. The obvious problem is human smuggling, especially boatloads of Sri Lankans claiming refugee status. Are they Tamil terrorists? Are they real refugees? What about that old/young Chinese man who managed to reach Canada by plane?

Seventy-five to almost 80 years ago, many of the would-be immigrants and refugees were Jews desperate to escape an increasingly murderous Nazi Germany. Although, over time, democratic countries became well aware of how dangerous life was for Jews in Germany, quota systems, including Canada’s infamous “none is too many” attitude, limited the number of people they accepted.

The Year of Goodbyes: A true story of friendship, family and farewells documents the story of a Jewish family in Hamburg desperately seeking escape from Nazi Germany. The book is a series of easy-to-read verses and commentary, also in verse. The book is amazingly beautiful, factual and emotional!

The Year of Goodbyes is based on the author’s mother, Jutta Salzberg, as an 11- to 12-year-old. Jutta’s January-to-November 1938 poesicalbum (a book of handwritten high quality wishes and advice written in verse by her friends and family with supplementary comments, also in verse, by Jutta) and Jutta’s diary, both written in German. Translations – by the author and her mother – of the original verses and diary entries are printed in italics while Jutta’s comments appear in plain type.

Skillfully blended together into a short, 26 chapter book with an introduction and afterword that are well worth reading, The Year of Goodbyes describes the hope, determination, heartbreak, luck and chutzpah that eventually enabled Jutta, her parents and younger sister to flee Nazi Germany six hours before the Gestapo came to arrest them just days before Kristallnacht.

Jutta’s commentary reveals a maturity and awareness well

Kid Lit Deanna Silverman beyond her years. At the same time, she often expresses her thoughts with mild ironic humour that shows just how ridiculous the Nazi regime was. In effect, Jutta’s style, carefully emulated by her daughter, Debbie Levy, implies that, if Hitler and his followers weren’t so vile and vicious, they would be hilarious.

But, the Nazis were vile and vicious, and became more so throughout 1938. The Jews knew they had to get out of Germany and Jutta’s father had been working on obtaining the appropriate documents to get his immediate family to America since 1936.

First, Jutta’s father had to find a relative in the U.S. who would send the American government an affidavit of financial responsibility. An uncle in New Jersey stepped forward with that affidavit. Next, he had to obtain exit permits from the Nazis.

Bribery took care of that.

Finally, and hardest of all, the family needed American visas.

It was only on November 4, 1938, after Jutta’s father threatened to jump to his death from a window in the American consulate in Hamburg, in front of his family and the American official, that those documents were finally obtained.

Meanwhile, as all this was happening, Jewish life became increasingly precarious in Germany, and in Hamburg itself. Still, Jutta and her friends tried their best to have as near a normal childhood as possible. School, even if it was now a Jewish girl’s school in a house, went on, as did Mama’s piano playing, and Jutta’s birthday party.

Leaving had its own dangers. Nazi soldiers were on the train checking everyone again and again. In Aachen, the last German town before the Belgian border, Jutta’s father was taken off the

train. Would he be allowed back on? Finally, the four Salzbergs arrived in Paris where they were feted by relatives before taking another train to Cherbourg where they boarded the Queen Mary for a choppy cruise to New York.

Of special interest in the afterword is a note about what happened to the various friends and relatives mentioned in Jutta’s poesicalbum, including a marvellous reunion of seven girlfriends in Washington, D.C. in 2000.

The Year of Goodbyes: A true story of friendship, family and farewells is one of the most unique, easy-to-read Holocaust books I have yet encountered. It is a gem of the highest quality, emotionally, factually and as a work of art.

Page 28 – Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011

Three graphic novels that explore Jewish themes The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb W.W. Norton & Company 224 pages Market Day

By James Sturn Drawn & Quarterly 96 pages Exit Wounds

By Rutu Modan Drawn & Quarterly 168 pages Comics have grown up. Since the 1986 and 1991 publication of Maus, Art Spiegelman’s two-volume, illustrated exploration of his father’s experience in the Holocaust, graphic novels – essentially long-form comic books – have become an increasingly popular medium for examining serious themes.

Recent years have seen various graphic novels applying a contemporary lens on topics including Jewish life and texts in Israel and the Diaspora, from Biblical times to the present.

R. Crumb, a celebrated artist from the underground comix movement of the 1960s, turns his pen to what he calls a “straight illustration job with no intention to ridicule or make visual jokes” of the Book of Genesis. Those thinking about Crumb’s best known legacy, the racy Fritz the Cat comic strip – which was made into an animated film in 1972 – will be either disappointed or relieved to see Crumb’s detailed exposition of the first of the Five Books of Moses.

Crumb draws on the excellent translation of Robert Alter whose The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary was released to critical acclaim in 2004 and acknowledges the tension between such a foundational text as Genesis and the more irreverent medium of comics.

“Every other comic book version of the Bible...contains passages of completely made-up narrative and dialogue...and still, these various comic book bibles all claim to adhere to the belief that the Bible is the ‘word of God,’... whereas I, ironically, do not believe the Bible is ‘the word of God,’” writes Crumb.

Crumb’s detailed line drawings matched to Alter’s text convey a seriousness of tone and painstaking adherence to the fine points of the Biblical narrative. The depictions are restrained. Though God is quite conventionally anthropomorphized, and though there is a sensuality to the human bodies, particularly the women, the most explicit acts of violence and sexuality – and Genesis has more than its share of bloodshed and procreative acts – are more implied through drops of blood, grimacing faces and tears, than depicted directly. The hefty volume concludes with several pages of commentary.

Market Day by James Sturm takes the shift between shtetl life and industrialization as its narrative tension. The protagonist is a carpet weaver and expectant father who takes great pride in his craft. Off to the market to hawk his wares one afternoon, his work is rebuffed in favour of mass-produced, cheaper rugs. Taking the form of a coming-of-personal-andeconomic-age tale, he stumbles into a drunken depression where he contemplates the meaning of life. As he seeks out guidance from a fortune teller, among other sources of comfort, he muses, “For one who believes it is possible to weave the nuances of man and nature into a rug, accepting that God etches one’s future into the palm of your hand seems reasonable.”

While Market Day appears, at the outset, to be a quaint story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, Sturm does not shy away from introducing bits of stark sexuality that have tended to be more at home in the graphic novel tradition than in popular renditions of 19th-century Jewish life like Fiddler on the Roof. One gets the sense that Sturm is allowing the spare form of the graphic novel to provide us a glimpse of authenticity.

Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds provides a glimpse into contemporary Israel. Taking as inspiration the true story of an unidentified victim in a bus bombing – a tale described in No. 17, David Ofek’s documentary film – the book examines the tentative nature of home, identity and intimacy against the shadow of terrorism. Modan, a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, centres the story on a female soldier and Koby, a taxi driver searching for his estranged father. A love triangle is exposed and Koby inches closer to an answer to the mystery.

I am very fond of graphic novels for enabling an intimate examination of topical themes. I also use them to positive effect when I teach Israeli-Palestinian relations at the university level. (In addition to Exit Wounds, I use the graphic novel and film version of Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir and Joe Sacco’s Palestine). Graphic novels help get students to appreciate the concept of ‘narrative’ as reflecting collective identity and structuring political choices. Like films, they immerse

Eighteen things you may not know about Yoni Freedhoff

Book Review Mira Sucharov the consumer a multi-sensory experience. But like conventional books, they require a certain active engagement.

Various graphic artists employ a variety of styles. The three novels reviewed here range from black and white line drawings (Genesis), to a narrow pallet of dark inks (Market Day), to a wider and brighter range of colour (Exit Wounds).

Taken together, readers may be reminded of the various phases of Jewish emotions that have animated our modern sense of Biblical, Diaspora and Israeli history.

18 things ...

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Dr. Yoni Freedhoff is the medical director and co-founder of the Bariatric Medical Institute. Recently, he became the Family Medicine chair of the Canadian Obesity Network.

Yoni is actively involved with the Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation (OJCF) and is the chair of the marketing committee. He is also the proud father of three young daughters. You may have heard him on the radio or have seen his picture on OJCF advertising, but here are 18 things you may not know about Yoni Freedhoff …

1. My real name is Jonathan, but I have only ever been called Yoni.

2. I don’t really care for sweets so, on my birthday, my wife makes me a ‘meat cake,’ which is made from meatloaf and has food-coloured mashed potatoes for the icing.

3. I enjoy a form of martial arts called Go-Rin-Do and train with my long-time sensei at his new dojo in Ottawa.

4. I have a collection of antique weight-loss memorabilia from the 1950s and earlier.

5. I lived in Israel for a year when I was 13, went on the March of the Living when I was 16, returned that summer for Biluim, and studied at the Weizmann Institute with a science scholarship when I was 21.

6. I still wear the Magen David necklace I bought on Ben Yehuda Street during my Weizmann Institute studies.

7. On our last day of high school at the Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, my immature friends and I hired a stripper dressed as a nurse to entertain our teacher, a rabbi who had broken his arm. He was not amused.

8. If she could only use two words, my wife tells me she would describe me as ‘silly’ and ‘moral.’

9. Something I did not expect about fatherhood was how often I would be dressed up as a fairy (complete with wand) for my daughters’ games.

10. One of the most inspiring books I have ever read is Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz.

11. I met my wife Stacey on a blind date. A nurse at the Civic, who knew both of us, set us up.

12. When I was 13, I worked at a kosher restaurant in Toronto. They made us burn the meat that had turned green so

Yoni Freedhoff runs in the 2008 Dr. Freedhoff Try-a-Tri Challenge.

no one would know that it had turned, and we had ‘raw liver fights’ with the chef. Needless to say, I brought my own lunch to work!

13. I make a mean 12-hour brisket in the smoker in my garage.

14. I do enjoy the occasional sweet treats, including Rice Krispies squares. I really like their texture.

15. I have an older sister who has a PhD in physical chemistry and a senior position in Washington, DC. 16. One of my favourite sayings in the context of my work is, “If you don’t like the way that you’re living, you’re not going to keep living that way.”

17. One of my current favourite TV shows is Community.

18. I’ve published over 1,000,000 words on my blog (weightymatters.ca). Perhaps my strangest post was in regard to $7.00 per bottle Glowelle Water, which was supposed to beautify one’s skin. It consisted of water, fruit juices and some antioxidants and had only ever been tested on adult hairless mice!

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 29

Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony: a valuable source of family information Many of us have visited Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority on our trips to Israel. It was established in 1953 to document and to preserve the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Shoah. It operates out of Har Hazikaron, the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.

While part of what Yad Vashem does is honour the memories of the victims through its museum, libraries and gardens, the organization has also been accumulating personal data on those who perished, as symbolic tombstones. This personal information was usually submitted by surviving family members through Yad Vashem’s ‘Page of Testimony’ form. The form collects the victim’s name, place and date of birth, place of residence before the war, profession, parents’ and spouse’s names, and when and where the person perished during the Holocaust. In some cases, pictures have been attached.

Over the past 57 years, Yad Vashem has collected millions of these pages. They have all been scanned and the information has been collected in a database. As well as these Pages of Testimony, several hundred thousand other records and lists have been included. This material is all easily searchable at yadvashem.org and has been for about five years. In 2003, though, I was fortunate to be able to access this wonderful database two years before its general release.

I had just returned home from the annual Jewish Genealogy conference in Washington, D.C., and was contacted by a friend and genealogical colleague living in California. She told me that Yad Vashem’s database was online and would probably only remain up for three or four days. Apparently, the software people in Israel were testing the system. For the next few days, every spare minute I could find was spent on the database.

I was able to search the files by surname, by town and by submitter. If you enter a name in English, entries submitted in Hebrew by Israeli contributors, or in Cyrillic by Russian and Ukrainian contributors, get picked up as well.

Connecting the branches John Diener The results were amazing. Among my findings were almost 600 victims with my ‘Diener’ surname and almost 800 victims from Grzymalow, my father’s shtetl.

Each search result provides a link to the actual Page of Testimony that was submitted in the original handwriting of the submitter.

Among the data that I found were five Pages of Testimony for a family of Dieners who lived within 15 miles of my father’s town. This family was murdered by the Nazis after being betrayed by a local woman for a reward of five kg of sugar. I contacted the submitter and found out that he was with my father during the war. Their mothers were murdered at the same time when the Germans rounded up about 1,000 people on April 7, 1943 in the Skalat area. This gentleman was also in the Kamionka labour camp with my father and they escaped together.

Speaking to this man was a moving experience, as he described the horrendous events exactly as my father had years earlier.

I found a Page of Testimony submitted by a woman living in London, England, in memory of her grandfather who was married to a Klara Diener from Grzymalow. I suspected that Klara and my grandmother were sisters.

When I contacted the submitter, she confirmed that we were second cousins and we filled each other in on the last 70 years of family history. Her grandparents had left Grzymalow about 30 years before the war, and lived in Vienna.

When the Nazis came to Vienna in 1938, some of the fam-

‘Make sure you really want what you think you want’ Rubin is taking another vacation, which he often does nowadays. Does he get paid anyway? I promised to do him a favour, but, this is getting ridiculous. I deserve at least half of his huge writing fee.

This is Jack and I am looking for your support. Write to the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin editor and ask him to pay me instead of Rubin. Isn’t that only fair?

Anyway, Rubin inspired me to write this when he told me about a book he read in Italy, an English translation of a novel by Alberto Moravia called Contempt. As I understood it, the whole thing is a kind of whodunit, or, rather, a whydunit. The author spends the whole book trying to figure out why his wife despises him. At the end, he discovers what I could have told him from the beginning and saved him all the trouble. But then there wouldn’t have been a book.

He also does a few stupid things along the way, but, really, don’t all men do stupid things? He finally realizes, of course, it wasn’t the stupid things he did that stimulated the contempt.

What was it then?

Come a little closer and I’ll whisper it to you. And, when I tell you, you will hit your forehead and say, “Of course, it’s obvious!”

You see, women despise us for exactly the same things that make them love us.

You don’t believe me?

Let’s look at the hero of the novel. He is a kind of dreamy romantic who is artistic and creative and really believes he has the talent to write theatrical plays. But, no one is willing to pay him much money for that. His wife loves his creativity and his romantic tendency, but, she also wants a stable home.

He starts to feel the pressure and takes a job with a big producer, a decisive man of action, to write a screenplay.

This starts to bring in the cash, but his wife starts to look at him askance.

She starts to admire the producer, a successful businessman who gets things done. But, she also despises him because he is crass and materialistic.

Do you see where this goes?

In the end, it is the woman’s disappointment that her romantic, creative husband is not able to provide for her and is completely unaware of how the world works. That drives her growing distance from him. At the same time, she is both attracted and repelled by the producer.

She leaves her husband for the producer, but candidly ad-

ily escaped to England. My father’s branch of the family was still in Grzymalow, and most died in the Holocaust.

After e-mailing back and forth for a few weeks, and exchanging family stories and pictures, I travelled to London with my wife and my mother where we had a fabulous visit with our new-found cousins. Not only did we meet the lovely couple who live in London, but her brother, who lives in France, flew to London with his wife and one of his sons to meet us as well. We have maintained contact with this branch, and have seen them on several occasions since, on both sides of the Atlantic.

We now have a whole new branch on our family tree thanks to this one entry in the Yad Vashem database. Seven years later, we still are in close contact, and last saw each other in 2009 at a Bat Mitzvah in Paris. Meeting this branch of my family has truly been one of the highlights of my genealogical research.

I also located 32 Pages of Testimony submitted by a cousin who made aliyah to Israel after the war. This cousin died about 15 years ago, but we had met on several occasions when visiting Israel. Her submissions opened up another branch of the family that I had very little knowledge of. Each of her pages defines very clearly how she was related to the victims, so it was very easy to connect them.

These are three examples of the kind of discoveries that one can find by searching the Yad Vashem database. The website is free, and quite easy to use.

I’ll conclude with this message from the Yad Vashem website: “Millions of victims remain unidentified. Yad Vashem urgently calls upon Jewish communities to recover their names through a worldwide Names Recovery Project. Unless we assume collective responsibility for completing this vital mission, some of them may be lost forever. This is a race against time, before those who remember them are no longer with us.”

Pages of Testimony can be submitted electronically on the website.

Humour me, please Rubin Friedman mits she won’t stay with him either.

So, the whole cause of the contempt is the woman’s desire for something impossible. She loves a man who is creative and unconcerned by worldly things, but is then disappointed when exactly those qualities make it impossible for him to give her the material stability she wants. And, similarly, but for the opposite reasons, she is disappointed by the producer.

The horrible truth is that this works the other way too.

The man marries a woman who is a homebody and will make a warm, wonderful mother. Then, he becomes full of contempt because she has not read the latest novels.

My own wife loved me because I was full of pep and fun.

Now, she likes nothing better than to stay home and read a book.

Come on people! Make your minds up about what you want! Or, make sure you really want what you think you want, because you just might get it.

So, Rubin, remember you wanted this column – because now you’ve got it.

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My mission: To make you love cauliflower Let me state up front, so there is no confusion or accusations of a hidden agenda: I love cauliflower. I love it boiled, steamed, roasted, deep-fried, stewed, baked, grilled, braised and, yes, even raw. I am on a mission to convert cauliflower haters into cauliflower lovers.

The smell is the most common reason some people hate cauliflower. That sulphur smell, common to all cooked cruciferous vegetables, transports us right back to childhood where many of us were subjected to overcooked, mushy cauliflower. If you are one of the cauliflower haters, I urge you to keep reading and try these recipes.

The first recipe is for a raw cauliflower salad. This recipe comes from Deborah Madison, who founded Greens Restaurant in San Francisco in 1979. She left the restaurant to live in New Mexico more than 10 years ago and contin-

ues to be one of the foremost authorities on vegetarian cooking. Her focus is on seasonal vegetables with an emphasis on farmers market produce.

Deborah says that the key to her Cauliflower Salad with Green Olives and Capers is to slice the cauliflower very thinly. Do not break it into florets. The combination of the earthy cauliflower with the salty, briny olives and capers is magical.

The second recipe is for Roasted Cauliflower with Sherry Vinegar-Honey Sauce and Almonds. Roasting brings out the nutty flavour of cauliflower. In this recipe, the cauliflower is not cut into florets, but rather into eight large wedges, leaving the core intact. This exposes more of the surface area to the baking pan, allowing for more golden delicious caramelization.

Cauliflower Salad with Green Olives and Capers This recipe comes from Deborah Madison’s book, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. The original recipe called for putting the cauliflower mixture on a bed of escarole or watercress, but I left the greens out as I knew, with only two of us eating this, I would have leftovers and it would keep better for the next day without the lettuce.

The key to the deliciousness of this salad is to slice the cauliflower very thinly. Do not break it into florets as you would normally do with cauliflower.

1 small firm head cauliflower 1 hard-boiled egg, yolk reserved for Sherry Vinaigrette (below) 2 green onions, including an inch of the greens, thinly sliced 1 cup diced celery heart with leaves 1 small green or red bell pepper, thinly sliced 2 small Lebanese cucumbers, diced into 1/2 inch cubes 12 pimiento-stuffed Spanish green olives, halved 1 tablespoon capers, rinsed 1/2 cup Italian parsley leaves, finely chopped Slice off very thin slices of cauliflower, working your way around the head. Pieces will crumble off as you do this, but don’t worry, just toss the crumbled bits into the salad as well. Any large slices can be quartered. Be sure to include the stalks, too, peeled and thinly sliced.

Dice the egg white and toss it with the sliced cauliflower, green onions, celery, pepper, cucumber, olives,

capers, and parsley. Add the vinaigrette (below) and toss again.

Sherry Vinaigrette 1 garlic clove, finely minced (grate it on a Microplane grater to do the job quickly) 1 hardboiled egg yolk, mashed with fork 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 1/2 tablespoons sherry vinegar or aged red wine vinegar 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil In a large bowl, whisk together minced garlic, mashed egg yolk, salt, pepper, vinegar and mustard.

Slowly drizzle in olive oil while whisking until mixture is well emulsified.

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1 medium head of cauliflower 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cloves garlic, grated on Microplane zester 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup water 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar 2 tablespoons honey 2 tablespoons freshly chopped Italian parsley 1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 475 degrees. Trim outer leaves of cauliflower and cut stem flush with bottom. Cut cauliflower head from pole to pole into eight large wedges, about the length of a pencil, so that core and florets remain intact (see illustration).

Place wedges cut side down on parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper; gently rub to evenly distribute oil and seasonings. Gently flip cauliflower and season other cut side with 2 tablespoons oil, salt and pepper.

Cover baking sheet tightly with foil and cook for 10 minutes. Remove foil and continue to roast until bottoms of cauliflower pieces are golden, 8 to 12 minutes. Remove sheet from oven, and, using spatula, carefully flip wedges. Return sheet to oven and continue to roast until cauliflower is golden all over, 8 to 12 minutes longer.

While cauliflower roasts, heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in small skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add garlic and raisins. Cook, stirring constantly, until garlic is fragrant, about 1 minute. Reduce heat to medium and add water, vinegar, and honey. Simmer until lightly syrupy, 4 to 6 minutes. Stir in parsley, almonds, and salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle sauce over roasted cauliflower and garnish with chives.

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Bessie Taller by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor.

Mazal Tov to: Rabbi Arnold and Chevy Fine on the engagement of their granddaughter by Sheldon and Corinne Taylor.

SHELLEY AND SID ROTHMAN FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Linda and Murray Greenberg on the birth of their grandson Teddy Jayden by Shelley Rothman.

Joany and Andy Katz on the engagement of their daughter Jaclyn to Ivan by Shelley, Stuart, Lina, JP and Marshall Rothman.

SAMUEL AND LEA SCHREIBER MEMORIAL FUND R’Fuah Sh’lemah to: Sol Sherman by Riva and David Rotenberg.

AL AND BETTY SEGAL MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Bessie Taller by Ned and Gail Segal and family.

Bob Norris by Ned and Gail Segal and family.

Mazal Tov to: Laura Segal on attaining her Masters of Education at the University of Toronto by Ned, Gail and Ben Segal.

HAROLD SHAFFER MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Abraham Shaffer, a dear father by Sheldon and Sonia Shaffer.

SYLVIA AND HARRY SHERMAN MEMORIAL FUND R’Fuah Sh’lemah to: Sol Sherman by Jonathan Freedman and Aviva Ben-Choreen.

Continued on page 34

In Appreciation Thank you to all our family and friends for the support, donations and cards received on the passing of my dear husband, Bertram Bronsther. Your kindness helped our family through a very difficult time. Please accept this as our personal thank you.

Sylvia Bronsther and family

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FOUNDATION DONATIONS FAY AND JOSEPH SHULMAN ENDOWMENT FUND Special birthday wishes to: Sarah Rak by Fay Shulman and Nadine and Brian Mordfield.

In memory of: Dr. Irwin Rose by Fay Shulman and Nadine and Brian Mordfield..

Allan Solman by Fay Shulman and Nadine and Brian Mordfield.

Bertram Harvey Bronsther by Fay Shulman.

Bessie Taller by Fay Shulman.

Mazal Tov to: Jessica Shulman on recieving her Doctorate in Psychology by Fay Shulman; and by Nadine and Brian Mordfield.

Condolences to: Morris and Sarah Rak on the loss of Morris’s mother Fanny by Fay Shulman and Nadine and Brian Mordfield.

LORNE AND LAURIE SHUSTERMAN FAMILY FUND In memory of: John Holzman by Lorne and Laurie Shusterman.

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Birthday wishes to: Debbie Weiss by Jack and Sarah Silverstein and family.

In memory of: Bessie Taller by Jack and Sarah Silverstein and family.

Ruth Shimkofsky by Cynthia, Dan, William and Thomas Kelly; by Rhona, Rachel and Rob Levine; by Carol, Laurie, Byron and Noah Pascoe; and by the Levitz family.

Mazal Tov to: Bernie and Donna Dolansky on the engagement of their daughter Gillian by Jack and Sarah Silverstein.

Phil and Cathy Stein on the engagement of their son

by Jack and Sarah Silverstein.

LINDA SILVERMAN MEMORIAL FUND Anniversary wishes to: Marvin and Phylis Silverman by Manny Gluck and Cheryle Hothersall; and by Mark, Susan and Gregory Silverman, Lisa Silverman, Ajike Akande and Ezekiel, Olympia and Grace Silverman-Akande.

Birthday wishes to: Marvin Silverman by Mark, Susan and Gregory Silverman.

Mazal Tov to: Marvin and Phylis Silverman on Marvin’s 80th birthday and on their 60th wedding anniversary by Clair Krantzberg.

STELLA AND LOUIS SLACK MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: George Simboli by Bonnie and Paul Bowering.

Harry Simkover by Bonnie and Paul Bowering and Noah Carroll; and by Timothy and Joan Simboli.

Anniversary wishes to: Lester and Myra Aronson by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel; by Norman and Sandra Slover; by Marilyn Gordon; by Stephanie and Thomas Hirschen; by Bonnie and Paul Bowering; by Alyce Baker; and by Arnold and Roslyn Kimmel.

SAM AND SUE SLACK ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Sonya Bodnoff by Sharon Appotive.

Mazal Tov to: Ken and Tina Koffman on becoming new grandparents by David, Sharon, Ryan, Jaye and Brody Appotive.

LAURA AND GORDON SPERGEL ENDOWMENT FUND Anniversary wishes to: Laura and Gordon Spergel by Rose and Morrie Konick; and by Sally Taller.

DORIS AND RICHARD STERN FAMILY FUND Condolences to: Cantor Eli Bard and family by Doris and Richard Stern and family.

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Canada Leadership seminar by Na’amat Canada.

Lisa Rosenkrantz by Joanne Gorenstein and Ron Yachnin.

THE TARANTOUR FAMILY FUND In memory of: Bessie Taller by Ann Lazear.

MILDRED AND PERCY WEINSTEIN ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Lila Dempsey by Millie Weinstein.

R’Fuah Sh’Lemah to: Stephen Bookman by Millie Weinstein.

Dr. Ron Mayer by Millie Weinstein.

Special birthday wishes to: Joseph Viner by Millie Weinstein.

CHARLES AND RAE TAVEL MEMORIAL FUND In memory of: Gloria Roth by Lilyan Philipp.

BRENT AND RISA TAYLOR ENDOWMENT FUND Mazal Tov to: Bonnie Merovitz on receiving the KipnisWilson/Friedland Award at by Risa, Brant and Shira Taylor.

BARBARA AND GERALD THAW ENDOWMENT FUND Joany and Andy Katz on the engagement of their daughter Jaclyn to Ivan by Barbara and Gerald Thaw.

Birthday wishes to: Dorothy Nadolny by Barbara and Gerald Thaw.

LISE AND MARK THAW FAMILY FUND Mazal Tov to: Mark and Cindi Resnick in honor of their son Daniel’s engagement to Hayley by Lise and Mark Thaw and family.

Joany and Andy Katz on the engagement of their daughter Jaclyn to Ivan by Lise, Mark, Alayna and Bryan Thaw.

MOSES, CHENYA AND HENRY TORONTOW MEMORIAL FUND In observance of the Yahrzeit of: Moses Torontow, a beloved father by Jean Naemark.

STEPHEN AND GAIL VICTOR ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Bessie Taller by Stephen and Gail Victor.

Emile Haim Benlolo by Stephen and Gail Victor.

Mazal Tov to: Stephen and Gail Victor on their new home by Len and Barb Farber; and by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel.

Sandy and Murray Ages on the engagement of their son Jonathan to Alyssa by Daniel and Marilyn Kimmel.

Cynthia Engel on the birth of her grandson by Stephen and Gail Victor and family.

Bryna and Murray Cohen on all their new joys by Stephen and Gail Victor and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Lester and Myra Aronson by Stephen and Gail Victor.

Susan and Fred Wallach by Stephen and Gail Victor and family.

RUTH AND JOSEPH VINER ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: Joseph Ginsberg by Ruth and Joseph Viner.

Lily Silverman by Ruth and Joseph Viner.

Special birthday wishes to: Ruth Viner by Joan Bloom.

HAZE WAINBERG FAMILY FUND Condolences to: Paula and Ryan Simons on the passing of Tammy

by Haze Wainberg and Mervin.

MICHAEL WALSH AND LISA ROSENKRANTZ ENDOWMENT FUND In appreciation to: Lisa Rosenkrantz for speaking at the Na’amat

HALTON/WEISS FAMILY FUND In memory of: Freda Weiner by Debbie and Ron Weiss.

Mazal Tov to: Steven and Dahlia Bindman on their new addition to the family by Debbie and Ron Weiss.

Lisa Rosenkrantz on winning the Family Physician Award by Debbie and Ron Weiss.

Bonnie Merovitz on receiving the KipnisWilson/Friedland Award by Debbie and Ron Weiss.

IRVING AND DIANE WEXLER FAMILY FUND In memory of: Dr. Irwin Rose by Carol and Felicia Segal.

Rose Cherry by Carol Segal.

SAM AND HELENE ZARET MEMORIAL FUND Mazal Tov to: Cathy Maron on her new home by Debi and Neil Zaret and family.

Graciela and Buddy Steinberg on the engagement of their son David to Sara by Debi and Neil Zaret and family.

Cindi and Mark Resnick on the engagement of their son Daniel to Hayley by Debi and Neil Zaret and family.

Jessica Shulman on her successful defense of her PHD by Debi and Neil Zaret and family.

ZIPES KARANOFSKY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND In memory of: John Holzman by Rick and Helen Zipes.

Mazal Tov to: Norman and Sandra Slover on the engagement of their son David to Adrienne Weinstock by Rick and Helen Zipes.

Condolences to: Mr. and Mrs. Brezynskie on the loss of a dear mother and mother-in-law by Rick and Helen Zipes.

Birthday wishes to: Howard Krebs by Rick and Helen Zipes.

THE SAUL AND EDNA GOLDFARB B’NAI MITZVAH PROGRAM STACEY SAMANTHA KATZ B’NAI MITZVAH FUND Mazal Tov to: Mark and Cindi Resnick on the engagement of their son Daniel to Hayley by Joany and Andy Katz and family.

Anniversary wishes to: Lawrence and Sharon Weinstein by Joany and Andy Katz and family.

Contributions may be made online at www.OJCF.ca or by contacting Erin Bolling at 613-798-4696 extension 232, Monday to Friday or by email at donation@ojcf.ca. Attractive cards are sent to convey the appropriate sentiments. All donations are acknowledged with a charitable receipt. We accept Visa, MasterCard and Amex.

Ottawa Jewish Bulletin – January 24, 2011 – Page 35

Ottawa celebrates Chanukah

Friendship Circle A group of children enjoy the Friendship Circle’s Chanukah Party, December 7, at the Soloway JCC.

Chanukah at 24 Sussex Prime Minister Stephen Harper lights the candles as Laureen Harper and Rabbis Chaim Mendelsohn and Avraham Altein look on during a Chanukah celebration at the prime minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive.

(PMO photo)

Agudath Israel Families light candles during Chanukah celebrations at Agudath Israel.

Hillel Ottawa Hillel Ottawa university students celebrate the end of a busy semester with a (Photo: Ross Diamond) Chanukah Ball, November 28 at Congregation Beth Shalom.

Chabad of Centrepointe

Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation

Children enjoy a magic show at the Chabad of Centrepointe Chanukah Celebration, December 6 at Ben Franklin Place.

Cantor Daniel Benlolo and Aviva Lightstone perform at the CanadaIsrael Cultural Foundation Chanukah Party, December 5.

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WHAT’S GOING ON January 24 to February 6, 2011 WEEKLY EVENTS MONDAYS Motorin’ Munchkins DropIn for ages 5 and under, sponsored by the SJCC Family Life Centre. All children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult, 9 am to 12 pm. Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 294.

TUESDAYS Israeli Folkdancing, learn dances, have fun, no experience or partner necessary, Hillel Academy, 31 Nadolny Sachs Private, 7:00 pm. Info: 613-722-9323.

WEDNESDAYS Baby and Toddler Play Group, sponsored by JCC Family Life Centre, 9:00 am to 11 am.

CANDLELIGHTING BEFORE Jan 28 Feb 4

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4:45 pm 4:55 pm

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 294.

FRIDAYS Shabbat Shalom Drop-In for ages 5 and under, sponsored by the JCC Family Life Centre, welcomes Shabbat through crafts, songs, stories and games.

Bracha Bear will be there! All children must be accompanied by an adult, 9:30 am to 11:00 am.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 The Peretzniks, a documentary about a Jewish school in Lodz, Poland that was closed by the Polish government in 1968.

Graduates now living in several countries, including Canada, share memories of their youth in post-war Poland. Sponsored by Greenberg Families Library and AJA 50+, 1:00 pm. Info: 613798-9818, ext. 245.

Wonderful Wednesdays, sponsored by Jewish Family Services and Congregation Machzikei Hadas. Luncheon and

program, to be announced, 12:00 pm, 2310 Virginia Drive.

Info: 613-521-9700.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day, sponsored by the Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies, the Shoah Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Distinguished Lecturer Program: Professor Susan Opotow, City University, New York, presents “Narrating the Holocaust in German Museums: Evidence, Exhibitions, and Education.” Opotow’s study of Berlin's Holocaust museums and sites examines interpretive practices for narrating the Nazi’s history to the German public today, 7:30 pm. Info: 613-5202600, ext. 1934.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29 Na’amat Ottawa Winter

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Wonderland Party is open to everyone. All proceeds go to the Tel Aviv Na’Amat Glickman Centre for the Prevention of Family Violence, Nepean Sailing Club, 3259 Carling Avenue, 7:30 pm.

Info: naamat.ottawa@sympatico.ca.

ensemble of professional actors and Tamir clients, which received critical acclaim as the first time an integrated performance had been mounted on such a scale.

The evening includes talk-back

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30 Bikur Cholim Volunteer Orientation/Training Session, sponsored by Ten Yad of Ottawa, a volunteer-based organization dedicated to helping individuals and families within the Jewish community who are experiencing traumatic situations. This session will train potential volunteers to visit the sick, Dovercourt Recreation Centre, 411 Dovercourt Avenue, 6:30 pm.

Info: 613-618-0485.

Dreamcoat: A Documentary, a premiere presentation sponsored by Tamir, chronicles the making of last May’s performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by an

with cast and crew, video highlights and a live performance, Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, 7:00 pm. Info: 613-7253519, ext. 113. (January 27 show sold out.)

COMING SOON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Ottawa Torah Institute’s Annual Adina Ben-Porat Memorial Lecture on Jewish Ethics with Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Porat speaking on euthanasia and assisted suicide, 7:15 pm.

Info: 613-737-5006.

THURSDAY, MARCH 3 Soloway Jewish Community Centre Annual General Meeting, 7:00 pm.

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 221.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6 Jewish Comedy, Redefined – Joel Chasnoff’s act is a hilarious mix of personal anecdotes and keen observational humour centred on the absurdity of modern American life, 7:30 pm.

Info: 613-798-9818, ext. 254.

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 Ottawa InfoCentre. Organizations which would like their events to be listed, no matter where they are to be held, should send the information to InfoCentre coordinator Benita Siemiatycki via e-mail at bsiemiatycki@jewishottawa.com or fax at 613-798-4695. She can also be reached by telephone at 613-798-4644. Accurate details must be provided and all events must be open to the Jewish public.

Condolences Condolences are extended to the families of: Rebbetzin Rose Adler, Orlando (mother of Paul Adler) Lillian Aronson, Halifax (mother of Stephen Aronson) Emile Chaim Benlolo, Montreal (brother of Cantor Daniel Benlolo) Bertram Harvey Bronsther Ben Dobrinsky, Montreal (father of Carol Dobrinsky Shein) Joseph Ginsberg

John Holzman Bernard Karas, Montreal (father of Dr. Phillip Karas) Leonard Myer (Montreal) (father of David Myer) Arnold Portugese Allan Schwalb Lily Silverman, Montreal (mother of Bill Silverman) Harry Simkover Bessie Taller May their memory be a blessing always.

The CONDOLENCE COLUMN is offered as a public service to the community.

There is no charge.

For a listing in this column, please call 613-798-4696, ext. 232.

Voice mail is available.

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