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Meet the city’s new spiritual leaders Rabbi Rob Morais is excited to be in Ottawa and says Temple Israel has enormous potential to develop new and exciting Jewish programing.

Rabbi Idan Scher says he’s felt a warm welcome, both from members of Congregation Machzikei Hadas and from the wider Jewish community.

BY HANNAH BERDOWSKI

BY HANNAH BERDOWSKI

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abbi Rob Morais has only been in Ottawa for a few weeks, but he’s jumped right into his role at Temple Israel of Ottawa as the Reform congregation’s new spiritual leader.

A Toronto native, Rabbi Morais has returned to Canada from Michigan where he served as spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel in Jackson and as director of the Jewish children’s museum in Detroit.

“This is the kind of city I want to live in.

This city has lots of potential; the synagogue is in a good healthy place,” Rabbi Morais said during an interview with the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.

“It’s a huge transition for the congregation. Number one, we have a transition of rabbis after 20 years.”

Rabbi Morais succeeds Rabbi Norman Klein, who served as interim rabbi for one year following the June 2014 retirement of Rabbi Steven Garten, who served as spiritual leader of Temple Israel since 1995.

Rabbi Garten continues to be involved with the congregation as rabbi emeritus,

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Rabbi Rob Morais says he plans to embrace the openness and creativity of Temple Israel “and to advance that.”

the first in Temple Israel’s history.

Rabbi Morais said Rabbi Garten will maintain an active role in congregational life, continuing to teach and being a great source of information. Rabbi Morais said the two have been working closely together and revealed their relationship began many years ago.

As a young boy, Rabbi Morais was a student at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto where Rabbi Garten was the director. After earning his rabbinic ordination at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi Morais worked with Rabbi Garten through Camp George, the Reform movement camp in Ontario.

“This has been a very carefully planned transition. There have been many, many, wonderful and dedicated people who worked on the transition,” said Rabbi See Rabbi Morais on page 2

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abbi Idan Scher will be formally installed, September 1, as spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas. He will succeed Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, who has led the modern Orthodox congregation since 1967, and will become the congregation’s rabbi emeritus (see From the Pulpit, page 6).

Rabbi Scher arrived in Ottawa from Baltimore last summer, with his wife Shifra and their son Shlomo, and has spent the past year working with Rabbi Bulka as associate rabbi while getting to know the congregation and Ottawa’s Jewish community.

In Baltimore, Rabbi Scher served as campus rabbi at the University of Maryland and was a rabbinic intern at an Orthodox synagogue.

After growing up in Chicago and working in Baltimore, large American cities with large Jewish communities, Rabbi Scher said he’s been enjoying living and working in Ottawa over the past year.

“I love it. I love the people, the way they live their lives,” he said.

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After serving the congregation for one year as associate rabbi, Rabbi Idan Scher looks forward to his installation as spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas, September 1.

Although Rabbi Scher was born and raised in Chicago, he has a number of relatives in Ottawa – both his parents and grandparents were married at Machzikei Hadas – and he visited Ottawa often over the years. He said the warm welcome he has received from the congregation makes him feel “like I have a huge extended family.”

Asked about the transitional period at Machzikei Hadas over the past year, Rabbi Scher said he’s been lucky to have been mentored by Rabbi Bulka.

“Many people thought [the transition] wouldn’t be the easiest for me … but it’s been beyond my expectations. Rabbi Bulka has been so supportive throughout this past year … people take direction from him, and the confidence he has had See Rabbi Scher on page 2

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Rabbi Morais: Synagogue embraces openness and creativity Continued from page 1

Morais. He was particularly appreciative of the work done over the past year by Rabbi Klein.

“The role of the interim is to bridge between old and new, and to be able to navigate for the congregation. [Rabbi Klein’s] job was preparing them for a new leader, and that was done exceptionally well. They’re poised, they’re ready, they’re hungry. I’m hungry, and so we’re going to get started.”

A second transition is taking place at the Temple Israel Religious School where Sue Potechin, a former teacher and youth adviser for the congregation, has been hired as the new director of Education.

“I come with a lot of programmatic and education experience. So, together, we will be providing a significant change and

enhancement to our education program,” said Rabbi Morais.

“I think that there’s enormous potential to develop Jewish programing and Jewish activities and Jewish experiences for people across the age spectrum. I think there is an amazing dedication to Jewish life, that I’ve seen here, that doesn’t exist in other places.”

Rabbi Morais spoke excitedly about his new congregation and the values Temple Israel instils. “[They are] poised to understand that we need to do it differently than we’ve done it in the past,” said Rabbi Morais, who spoke about learning to embrace people with different ideas, and families of different backgrounds, including those centred on same sex couples.

“This synagogue has been doing [that]

forever, but we haven’t talked much about what we do,” said Rabbi Morais, whose goal is to get the word out about “the warmth and the excitement that is Temple Israel.

“Nothing radical is going to change tomorrow, but we’ll make sure that the changes we do make are done in a thoughtfully planned way.”

His strategy, he said, is to re-evaluate and reflect on all areas of the synagogue by asking, ‘Is this our best, and what the synagogue needs?’

“The plans are to embrace the openness and creativity that the synagogue has always shown and to advance that. … I think the synagogue sees itself as an extended family and [I hope] to embrace and nurture that and be the one to help guide the vision … we create together,” said Rabbi Morais.

Rabbi Steven Garten became rabbi emeritus of Temple Israel in June 2014.

Rabbi Scher: ‘Judaism is constantly evolving’ Continued from page 1

in me made it easier for them to accept me.

Rabbi Bulka has done a lot of the difficult work on my behalf.”

Rabbi Scher said what made his first year in Ottawa so special was that it wasn’t only the Machzikei Hadas community that was so welcoming; it was the entire Ottawa Jewish community.

“It shows how passionately the entire community cares for the vibrancy and continuity of Jewish life,” he said. “[It] makes me wake up knowing I love what I’m doing and gives me the confidence to do what I envision for Ottawa.”

The specific moment that made him certain his move to Ottawa was the best decision he’s ever made took place last September during his first Rosh Hashanah here.

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“I had no idea what I got myself into,” recalled Rabbi Scher as he described his nervousness about speaking on the second day of Rosh Hashanah to such a large congregation. “I put thought into it and I think I said it pretty well. Afterward, Rabbi Bulka was very kind, saying, ‘Now you all got to see why Rabbi Scher has my vote, and I’m sure he has all your votes as well.’”

Rabbi Scher noted that congregations today must continue to change to meet the needs of its congregants and the community.

“Judaism is constantly evolving,” he said. “What spoke to people 10 years ago does not speak to them today, and what speaks to people today will not speak to them in 10 years.”

The installation of Rabbi Scher, and the appointment of Rabbi Bulka as rabbi emeritus, is on Tuesday, September 1, at Congregation Machzikei Hadas. The evening begins with a reception at 6:30 pm to be followed by the ceremony at 7:30.

Rabbi Scher said he plans to use the opportunity – in addition to expressing his gratitude – as a platform to give a “state of union address” and share his vision and plans for the congregation.

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Young Israeli hockey player spends a great summer in Ottawa Noy Rosenberg, 15, one of the few female hockey players in Israel, has become an unofficial ‘ambassador’ for hockey among Israelis, for the Canada Israel Hockey School, and for Israel when she travels to North America. Noy spent this summer in Ottawa at the Sens hockey camp and at Camp B’nai Brith. Mitch Miller reports.

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hile Noy Rosenberg, a 15-year-old girl from Kibbutz Kfar Giladi, may not be an official member of Israel’s diplomatic core, she does represent Israel and Israeli youth whenever she travels abroad to play hockey.

This year, Noy has been spending her summer in the Ottawa area: first, as a participant in the Ottawa Senators Summer Hockey Camp in July, then as a camper at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa.

As a member of the Canada Israel Hockey School (CIHS), headquartered at the Canada Centre in Metula (in the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s partnership region in northern Israel in the Partnership2Gether program), Noy is one of the few female hockey players in the State of Israel. She began playing four years ago and instantly fell in love with Canada’s number one sport.

Canadians first met Noy three years ago when she was featured in The Neutral Zone, a TSN documentary about the CIHS and the challenges and successes of operating a hockey program in Israel, which welcomes boys and girls, Jews and Arabs, Christians, Druze and Muslims.

In the documentary, Noy and her friend, Bisan, a Druze girl from Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, show us how sports can break down barriers.

They met on the ice and are best of friends.

Noy was only 12 years old in the documentary. Since then, she has travelled with CIHS with groups of Israeli hockey players to Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, where she’s been interviewed on network TV and in major newspapers. The Embassy of Israel in Washington was very impressed with how she handled each interview and represented Israel.

This summer’s trip to Ottawa – thanks to the Partnership2Gether program of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa – was Noy’s first hockey trip without her Israeli hockey teammates. She travelled solo to improve her hockey skills and to meet Canadian youth.

From the day Noy arrived in Ottawa, it was time to improve on her already solid hockey skills. She participated in the Ottawa Senators Summer Hockey Camp by day, and in Next Generation HKY on-ice sessions in the evenings.

As with any 15-year-old hockey player entering a new program, Noy was nervous at first. She questioned how her skills would match up to the Canadians.

Would she be playing with boys and/or girls? Did she have the right equipment, skates and sticks?

From her first practice in Ottawa, Noy had new hockey friends. Her Ottawa peers learned about Israel through friendship with someone their own age

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Israeli hockey player Noy Rosenberg (second from left) poses with some of her Ottawa friends at the Ottawa Senators Summer Hockey Camp, July 16.

who shares a passion for the same sport.

They all worked hard on the ice and smiled and laughed. At the end of each day, there were hugs, and Noy gave every player and coach she met a Canada/ Israel friendship pin with the flags of both countries.

Partnership2Gether builds and strengthens bridges between Israel and the Diaspora. It was incredible to learn that many youths and their parents at the local arenas didn’t really know much about Israel, beyond what they see in the evening news. They had no idea that some Israelis play hockey, that they speak English, and that there are so many more common bonds with Canadians.

By the time the week of hockey had ended, Noy had grown her circle of

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friends – they plan to keep in touch via social media – and her new Ottawa hockey buddies now have a real connection to Israel.

In Ottawa, Noy also met Israeli Ambassador Rafael Barak and was interviewed on TSN 1200 radio and CTV. She went on to have a great time at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa, once again representing her kibbutz and our partnership region in Israel’s north.

Noy hasn’t decided yet if she should enter Israel’s diplomatic core or be a professional hockey player.

Mitch Miller, chair of the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, is an organizer and volunteer coach for the Canada Israel Hockey School.

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Iran nuclear deal: Historic mistake, missed opportunity

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n the morning of July 14, Canadians woke up to breaking news from Vienna of a deal reached over Iran’s nuclear

program.

To understand why Israel sees this agreement as a threat to global peace and security, let me share with you five key questions:

DOES THE AGREEMENT STOP IRAN FROM ATTAINING A NUCLEAR BOMB? No, plain and simple.

Over the years, the international community constructed a robust system of sanctions, squeezing the Iranian economy and bringing the regime to the negotiating table. The aim was to dismantle Iran’s military nuclear program.

Just as this objective was finally within reach, the negotiators changed their approach. They handed the Iranian regime a dream deal that will quickly end the sanctions, the one form of leverage,

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Now Iran is all but guaranteed a nuclear bomb.

Assuming it doesn’t cheat, it can simply wait 10 years – continuing to advance its nuclear capabilities – and then quickly become a nuclear superpower with full international legitimacy.

DOES THE DEAL STOP IRAN FROM CHEATING? Again, the answer is no.

The negotiators were initially guided by a strong awareness of Iran’s long history of deceiving the international community – including its clandestine

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underground enrichment facilities at Fordow and Arak.

What was supposed to be “anywhere, anytime” inspections with just 24-hours’ notice, became a bureaucratic process that can last at least 24 days. Now, even if we learn about Iran’s undeclared sites, the regime has nearly a month to hide the evidence.

This is especially disconcerting for Israel, a small country, two-thirds the size of Vancouver Island with half our 8.2 million citizens located in the central core. Iran’s ability to build and deliver just one nuclear warhead can mean our total demise.

WILL THE AYATOLLAHS USE THE $150 BILLION OF SANCTION RELIEF TO HELP THE IRANIAN PEOPLE? Here, too, the answer is no.

It is not a coincidence that some of the deal’s fiercest opponents are Iranian democracy advocates. Despite the election of President Hassan Rouhani, a so-called “reformer,” these dissidents know that the regime has only upped its oppression of women, political activists, religious minorities, and members of the LGBT community.

Moreover, the world’s experience with North Korea shows that a generous economic package to feed and help the population, including half million tons

WILL THE DEAL SUCCEED IN MAKING IRAN A REGIONAL PARTNER FOR PEACE? Absolutely not.

Iran is playing a direct role in the instability raging across the Middle East: President Rouhani – propping up the embattled Assad regime in Syria, building up Hezbollah’s arsenal of over 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel, supporting the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and playing dangerous games in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those who live under this shadow, not just Israel but many Arab countries, stand united against this bad deal that gives international legitimacy and transforms Iran – the region’s main source of instability – from the problem to being a wishful part of the solution.

For Israel, this is a significant game changer that hands the Iranian regime – which was never shy in calling for our annihilation and denying the Holocaust – with an exceptional geopolitical asset.

Israel and the Jewish people understand the link between rhetoric and action. We clearly saw that four days before the deal was signed, President Rouhani was leading mobs in the streets of Tehran, chanting “Down with America, Death to Israel.” Just days after the signing, with the ink not even dry, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated his regime’s commitment to its allies and his policies against Israel and the U.S. IS WAR THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO THIS AGREEMENT? Not at all. Diplomacy is always the best option. The alternative has always been a better deal – one that rolls back Iran’s military nuclear program and links the easing of sanctions to a total change in Iran’s behaviour vis-à-vis Israel, its Arab neighbours, and its own population.

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Rabbi Finkelstein launches new afterschool education program for high school students

BY HANNAH BERDOWSKI

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abbi Howard Finkelstein of Congregation Beit Tikvah has founded Yeshivat Tikvah, a new afterschool program for high school students. The program will explore Judaic text, based on contemporary issues and Jewish law.

Rabbi Finkelstein told the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin his intent is to “fill the hole that has been created in the Ottawa Jewish community by the absence of Yitzhak Rabin High School.”

Rabbi Finkelstein was the Judaic studies principal at Rabin from its inception in 1995 and became dean of Judaic studies when Rabin and Hillel Academy merged in 2009 to form the Ottawa Jewish Community School (OJCS). The high school program at OJCS Rabbi Howard Finkelstein says the new was phased out at the end of this past Yeshivat Tikvah program for high school school year due to enrolment levels that students will explore Judaic text, based on were not sustainable. contemporary issues and Jewish law.

Yeshivat Tikvah will not be competing with existing programs already in the and female high school students. Tuition community for high school students, is free of charge for members of Rabbi Finkelstein said. Rather, the new Congregation Beit Tikvah. Tuition is $250 program will add more intensive textfor associate members of Beit Tikvah and based study to what is already available $500 for non-members. and noted there could be collaborative For more information about Yeshivat efforts with Torah High, NCSY’s afterTikvah or to register, contact Rabbi school program for public high school Finkelstein at 613-723-1800 or students. rabbihoward.finkelstein@gmail.com.

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FEDERATION REPORT

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STACY GOLDSTEIN AND TAMARA FATHI BEN-GURION SOCIETY

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hat a great way to spotlight the next generation of Jewish leadership!’ we both thought when Ottawa’s Ben-Gurion Society (BGS) was asked to collectively chair the Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s 2016 Annual Campaign kickoff event.

The BGS is a donor recognition program and networking forum for those under the age of 45 who make an annual gift of at least $1,000 to the Annual Campaign. We choose to be part

Ottawa’s Ben-Gurion Society to chair 2016 Annual Campaign kickoff of this donor group because we staunchly believe in the principles upon which BGS was founded with the goal to build a strong and responsible Jewish community at home, in Israel, and around the world. BGS and its 31 members in Ottawa now have this wonderful opportunity to flex our young leadership muscles and plan one of the largest community events – launching Federation’s Annual Campaign – the engine that drives our community.

As engaged and driven leaders in the young adult community, and as a current (Stacy) and past (Tamara) member of the Federation’s board, it seemed right that the two of us step forward to represent BGS in co-chairing this year’s Kickoff event on Wednesday, September 9 at Centrepointe Theatre.

When planning the program, it was very important to us that we follow in

the footsteps of those who came before us – the dedicated donors and community leaders who have led by example and inspired our involvement. We maintained the goal of helping to shape our Ottawa Jewish community of the future, by being the next generation of young Jewish leaders and philanthropists. With this in mind, we have planned a program that includes a variety of featured speakers who reflect both a traditional and novel approach to community engagement.

We are hosting what we are fondly calling FED Talks, which is based on the well-known TED Talks format devoted to spreading ideas via short powerful talks by some of the most engaging speakers around the world sharing innovative and inspiring ideas. We wanted to engage young, dynamic and philanthropic trailblazers in today’s world to share

FROM THE PULPIT

I’m not saying goodbye

RABBI REUVEN P. BULKA MACHZIKEI HADAS

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he From the Pulpit column is a welcome opportunity for the city’s congregational rabbis to connect with the city as a whole.

This is my final contribution to the column. The next time that Congregation Machzikei Hadas will be represented in this space, the author will be Rabbi Idan Scher, a young, dynamic, energetic, engaging, personable, and immensely capable rabbi. For the past year, he has been the shul’s associate rabbi, during which time he and his wife, Shifra, have connected on so many levels with our congregational family and with many members of the broader community.

Leah joins me in wishing the Schers well as they embark on this exciting challenge, or more accurately, the challenges that define the modern day rabbinate. At the same time, I will become the synagogue’s rabbi emeritus. Exactly what is a rabbi

emeritus you may wonder? In truth, no one really knows. If you ask a group of rabbis emeritus, each of them will give you a different view of what that is for them.

What I can share with you is that, for me, it definitely does not mean “retirement.”

Retirement, I never tire of repeating, is not a Jewish concept. There is too much to do, not enough time to do it, and never an excuse for removing oneself from being involved. It means recalculating, but not in a GPS sense. The GPS recalculates when you’ve made a wrong turn, or missed an exit, or took too early an exit, etc. The wonderful years we have spent together in Ottawa have been anything but a wrong turn. My years here have transcended the wildest dreams anyone can legitimately entertain when entering the rabbinate.

I enter the next chapter full of gratitude for all the previous chapters. Many of you have suggested I put all these chapters into a book. I am somewhat hesitant about that, even though such a volume would contain many warm recollections of the wonderful people who built this community and of their successors who have further built upon the foundation. Maybe one day my arm will be twisted enough that I capitulate.

For now, the recalculating is more along the lines of what next? In the as-yet-notfully-defined response to this question, a few things are clear. Ottawa will hopefully be part of “what’s next?” I hope to be

available, when and if needed, both for Machzikei Hadas as well for the Jewish and general community. Leah and I are also looking forward to spending more time with the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

I am also way behind on a number of books I have started, which are currently in permanent stall. Finally, I am happy to share with you that I am the president and CEO of a new and ambitious not-for-profit called Kind Canada Généreux. It is the first of its kind, a truly national endeavour to advance the implementation of a kindness-imbued culture at home, in the workplace, in schools, indeed everywhere.

Thanks to Michael Regenstreif and all his predecessors at the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin for always being a pleasure to work together. Thanks to Andrea Freedman and all her predecessors at the Jewish Federation of Ottawa for their leadership and dedication, and to Federation Chair Linda Kerzner and those who preceded her. Thanks, too, to my colleagues with whom it has been a pleasure to interact.

We have a great community, and great challenges. I am full of confidence that, with the vision, resolve and commitment of our leaders and volunteers, we will successfully meet these challenges.

Warmest wishes, but not goodbye, Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka, (Soon-to-be) Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Machzikei Hadas

their innovative ideas and approaches based on one theme, “L’dor v’dor, from generation to generation: inspiring and empowering future generations.”

We were thrilled to get renowned social entrepreneur, and co-founder of Free the Children, Marc Kielburger, and Jew in the City blogger and outreach maven, Allison Josephs. Plus, a little levity will be added to the program with the help of comedian and Ottawa native Jon Steinberg.

Although our generation is often perceived as the “What’s in it for me?” generation, we want the community to know that we, and all of BGS, are committed and engaged young Jewish adults with a strong desire to make a difference, to lead by example and to inspire others to get involved to ensure our community continues to thrive L’dor v’dor, from generation to generation.

We are thrilled by the initial positive response to FED Talks and hope to see you there!

The Jewish Federation of Ottawa’s 2016 Annual Campaign Kickoff is Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 pm, at Centrepointe Theatre, 101 Centrepointe Drive. Tickets are $20 and are available at www.centrepointetheatre.com.

For more information, contact Rena Garshowitz at 613-798-4696, ext. 241 or rgarshowitz@jewishottawa.com.

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FROM THE EDITOR

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MICHAEL REGENSTREIF

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his issue of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin marks the final appearance of Rabbi Reuven Bulka as one of our From the Pulpit columnists. The Pulpit column rotates among the pulpit rabbis of Ottawa’s different congregations – each of them writing two or three times per year.

In about two weeks, Rabbi Bulka will become rabbi emeritus of Congregation Machzikei Hadas after serving 48 years – nearly half a century – as spiritual leader of the congregation. His tenure in the Machzikei pulpit is unprecedented in Ottawa – and very rare anywhere else.

The impact of Rabbi Bulka’s leadership has been felt far beyond his congregation: in Ottawa’s Jewish community, and in the national Jewish community; and in the broader community, where he

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t is so out of whack for a politician to do almost everything Donald Trump does that it really makes you wonder. Is the man a genius or a lunatic?

Trump took off in the earliest of days of a very long U.S. presidential campaign, and he accomplished it by being his bombastic self. Without any filters, he said what he thought, and it appeared he would say just about anything. When he launched his campaign calling illegal Mexican immigrants drug dealers and rapists, heads spun and most experts thought he had blown himself up.

Instead, he took the headlines and he used the many media opportunities to say more not less. And the more he said,

Rabbi Bulka’s remarkable, unprecedented tenure is well known for his many books and newspaper columns, for his weekly radio program, as honorary chaplain of the Royal Canadian Legion, and as a leader who has launched so many important initiatives, from encouraging organ donations to creating Kindness Week.

Although Rabbi Bulka and his wife Leah will be taking more time to spend with their children and grandchildren, he will continue to be an important leader in the community.

Thank you, Rabbi, for so many insightful Pulpit columns in the Bulletin.

You’re always welcome to contribute guest columns to our pages whenever you have commentaries to share with the community.

THANK YOU MIRA SUCHAROV This issue also includes the final instalment of Mira Sucharov’s Values, Ethics, Community column, and I also take this opportunity to thank Mira for sharing her challenging thoughts with us in every edition of the paper over the past seven years. In fact, it’s been exactly seven years, as her first column appeared in the August edition in 2008.

Mira was actually the first new regular

columnist I recruited for the Bulletin after becoming editor. I’d inherited all of our other columnists at the time from my predecessor, the late Barry Fishman.

Over the years, Mira often challenged us by taking on controversial issues and by being unafraid to take controversial positions. She wrote about difficult topics in the community, in Israel, and in the wider Jewish world. Speaking personally, I sometimes agreed with Mira’s take on a particular issue and sometimes disagreed. But that’s the nature of opinion columns and, as both an editor and a reader, I want to be challenged – and Mira certainly did challenge her readers.

Newspapers are always evolving and columnists come and go – for a variety of reasons. Sometimes a columnist decides to wind down his or her column and sometimes it’s the newspaper that decides it’s time. And both scenarios have played out at the Bulletin over the years. That’s the way it works at all newspapers – from the largest dailies to community papers like ours. None of the columnists who were with us in 2008 are still writing their columns now. And, in the interim, a number of other columns

Politicians discovering just how peeved voters are the deeper he got, like when he said U.S. Senator John McCain was not a war hero because he had been taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. Cries for an apology were cast aside by Trump. He chose to keep shooting as he defiantly pushed his opponents in the Republican race to engage him – which just made for more Trump headlines and more airtime.

With chutzpah galore, he didn’t flinch when he proclaimed he had played the political game as a businessman, giving many politicians money for their campaigns. And he unabashedly added that they all loved him for it, making it clear he gave money to buy favours. He claimed his opponents are still selling favours because that is how they fund their campaigns, something he doesn’t have to do because he has so much money.

As shocking as this is, it speaks to people. Lots of people in western democracies who have had it with politicians and the whole political process, including political media, communication gurus, controlled messaging, pollsters, lobbyists – the whole carefully calcu-

lated, politically correct scene that Trump so willingly, forcibly and effectively attacks with almost every utterance, every gesture.

Regardless of where Trump stands when this column is published, voter anger is real, and no one ever ripped up the rule book like Trump. No one has done it because no one thought being outrageous could be politically advantageous. No one in recent memory ever said things like “I don’t need a debate coach, I am who I am.”

Virtually no one thinks Trump will ultimately go very far in politics. But he has already gone a good distance by waking people up to how being a non-conformist can work in a political environment perceived to be so terribly flawed, disliked and distrusted.

Our federal election in Canada is just two months away, and you can bet the Trump approach is being watched and evaluated here for what it is: a game changer in the world of waking up and seeing how peeved voters are.

While it is hard to imagine Trump’s brash and bombastic approach working in Canada, there is another way of

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have come and gone from our pages.

Of all our regular columnists, Mira has, by far, had her space in our paper the longest. In fact, our next longest serving columnist has been with us only half as long. And, as Mira notes in her column this issue, she now contributes regular columns and blogs to the print and/or online versions of several other Jewish and mainstream newspapers.

So, when we decided this year that it was time to bring a fresh voice into the Bulletin, all of those factors were considered. We knew that Mira’s voice would continue to be heard in forums far and wide.

Mira, thank you, again, for your contributions to the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin these past seven years. We’re all the richer for the eloquence and passion you brought to so many issues of concern.

NEW COLUMN TO DEBUT I’m also thrilled to announce that our new column, Dispatches from the Diaspora by Sarah Waisvisz, will debut in the September 7 issue. Sarah is a young Ottawa-based playwright, actor and academic – she received her PhD this year – interested in many issues in the Jewish world.

From my discussions with her, I’m sure that Sarah’s column will be insightful, thought-provoking and exciting.

looking at it. If traditional approaches are old and stale, then traditional voting patterns may also be part of the past. In May, we saw that in Canada, when the NDP took power in Alberta.

Albertans acted out the kind of thinking that brought Trump to the forefront this summer. Who cares about the rules and who thinks about the way it is supposed to be when you are really fed up with traditional politics? As well, in Alberta, there was a horrendously run Progressive Conservative Party campaign.

But, consider this. The NDP won in Alberta and the lights suddenly went on for Thomas Mulcair and the federal NDP. The momentum hasn’t stopped since. If you are really upset with the political system and how things are and have been, then why not do the unthinkable and elect a party that has never been even distantly close to winning a federal election. Talk about shockers and rewriting the rule book.

Donald Trump entertains people on TV because he thinks out loud and he does it with no attempt to soften the edges. While it is unthinkable that a Canadian political leader would be so out there, there is the thought that voters may actually do the talking.

For many Canadians, the temptation to actually do the unthinkable is very much part of our present election campaign.

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TEL AVIV (JTA) – The murder of a 16-year-old girl at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade has sparked calls for LGBT-rights legislation – as well as pushback from those who oppose it.

Shira Banki died August 2 after being stabbed while marching in the July 30 parade. Five others were wounded in the stabbing.

“It never crossed our mind that Shira would be murdered as a symbol,” her parents said in a eulogy Monday, according to a copy of the text on the Israeli news site Ynet. “An unnecessary death of a young girl, innocent and full of good intentions and deeds. A death that gives us and hundreds of other people sorrow and pain as deep as the sea, without end or benefit.”

The alleged assailant, Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox man from Modiin Ilit in the West Bank, had been sent to prison for committing a similar stabbing at the same parade in 2005. Schlissel was freed from prison for that crime last month. He is now in custody.

The attack also comes six years after a shooting at a gay club in Tel Aviv that killed two and wounded a dozen others.

Israel’s leaders condemned the stabbing attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to “deal with the murderer to the fullest extent of the law.”

“Shira was murdered because she courageously supported the principle according to which everyone is entitled to live their lives in dignity and safety,” he said in a statement. “We will not allow the abhorrent murderer to undermine the fundamental values upon which Israeli society is based.”

The attack prompted calls for legislation that would protect LGBT rights, as well as an end to denunciations of LGBT Israelis. Knesset member Itzik Shmuli of the Zionist Union announced publicly that he is gay in a column in the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot. Keren Neubach, an Israeli journalist, also came out of the closet in the wake of the attack.

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But the outcry over the stabbing also led to pushback.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett was disinvited from a protest against violence, August 1, after he refused to sign a pledge to advance LGBT-rights legislation.

Bennett defended his decision, saying he supports gay rights with limitations. After the attack, he increased the budget of an LGBT youth group, Israeli Gay Youth.

“We have specific disagreements,” Bennett said, August 3, on Israel’s Army Radio. “I’m for full rights for the gay community in terms of civil rights. In terms of formal Israeli state recognition of marriage, we’re not there. That’s the argument.”

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rights activists. Smotrich is a longtime opponent of the gay rights movement.

“The witch hunt has begun,” Smotrich tweeted, August 2, after Bennett’s invitation was withdrawn. “Everyone who dares to oppose same-sex marriage and abomination marches is arrested by the police. Delusional. A dark day for democracy. Enough silencing!”

Many Israeli politicians have sought to draw a link between the Jerusalem Pride Parade stabbings and the torching of a Palestinian home on the West Bank just hours later that killed an 18-month-old baby boy and critically injured his

parents and brother. Rallies across Israel, August 1, decried the violence, while Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called for stronger action to prevent future attacks.

On August 3, Rivlin spoke of Banki at a conference of Israel’s General Federation of Students and Young Workers.

“She joined the parade in the name of the values in which she believed – tolerance, equality, hope and love,” he said.

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Shin Bet sought to put Ettinger under administrative detention in 2014, according to Haaretz, but state prosecutor Shai Nitzan denied the request, instead barring Ettinger from Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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It was not clear whether he is a suspect in the July 31 firebombing, which killed a Palestinian toddler and severely injured his family. However, officials said Ettinger was being interrogated for information that could help find the perpetrator of the bombing in Duma.

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Jewish groups call on Israel to rein in Jewish extremists (JTA) – Jewish groups in North America have called on Israel to more forcefully rein in its Jewish extremists.

The call came in messages condemning two attacks: the firebombing of a Palestinian home in the West Bank, which led to the death of a sleeping baby; and the stabbing of six people during the Jerusalem Pride Parade, which led to the death of a 16-year-old girl.

“We unequivocally condemn and are disgusted by this outrageous act of terrorism,” said David. J. Cape, chair, of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, in a statement released in Ottawa following the firebombing. “We mourn the loss of an infant who was senselessly murdered, and we pray for a full recovery for the injured.

“Those who attack Palestinians in so-called ‘price tag’ raids not only threaten innocent lives, they violate the fundamental values of Israelis. Indeed, we note that Israeli leaders across the political spectrum, including leaders of the settler movement, have denounced this attack in the harshest of terms. We trust that the perpetrators will be apprehended quickly and the courts will apply the full weight of the law commensurate with the abhorrence of these crimes,” said Cape.

The attacks “must be met with determined action to prevent violence, apprehend perpetrators, and hold to account those who engage in incitement,” Stephen Greenberg, chair, and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice-chair and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said in a statement, which also “expressed their profound sorrow to the Dawabsha family on the death of their child, Ali Saad Dawabsha.”

“Terror – whatever the source – must be given no quarter,” AIPAC said in a statement, which condemned the attack and expressed condolences to the family.

“The deliberate and heinous targeting and murder of innocents cannot be tolerated.”

“Setting ablaze the home of an innocent Palestinian family, of any such family, is frightening in its pure evil,” American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris said in a statement. “Whoever carried out this appalling deed must be apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and additional steps must be taken in an effort to prevent any future such attacks.”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned what it called the “shocking terror attack” in a statement.

“For seven years, extremists have perpetrated acts of violence and hate, targeting mosques, churches, and private property. Now these unacceptable acts of hatred and unbridled zealotry have resulted in the murder of an innocent child,” Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL U.S. national director, and Carole Nuriel, director of ADL’s Israel office, said.

“Expressions of outrage are no longer enough. The perpetrators of these crimes need to face specific, enhanced consequences for these despicable acts of hate and terrorism. Community and religious leaders must make unquestionably clear that any act of hate and violence is unacceptable, un-Jewish, and that anyone involved in such incidents will be shunned by the community, let alone prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” they stressed.

“Such a heinous act offends all people of good will and violates basic Jewish values,” the Orthodox Union said in a statement. “We commend Prime Minister Netanyahu for his unequivocal repudiation of this act and his commitment to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

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Pollard’s wait not over: Fight to bring him to Israel will outlast his release

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WASHINGTON (JTA) – U.S. President Barack Obama will not alter the terms of Jonathan Pollard’s parole once he is released, a signal that Israel’s struggle to bring him to the country whose citizenship he has assumed will outlast his November release date.

“Mr. Pollard will serve his sentence as mandated by statute for the very serious crimes he committed,” Alistair Baskey, a U.S. National Security Council spokesman, said in a statement emailed to JTA. “The president has no intention of altering the terms of Mr. Pollard’s parole.”

It is not clear what, if any, parole terms may be imposed on the convicted Israeli spy upon his November 20 release after serving 30 years in a federal prison. In a statement Tuesday, his lawyers said that Pollard would be required to remain in the United States for five years. Within minutes, however, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman issued a corrected release removing that sentence.

The corrected statement nonetheless suggested that Pollard would face travel restrictions.

“President Obama, who has the constitutional power of executive clemency, has the authority to release Mr. Pollard before November 21, 2015, as well as the authority to allow Mr. Pollard to leave the United States and move to Israel immediately,” the statement said, noting Pollard’s mandated release date by statute.

A Justice Department spokesman told JTA that the Parole Commission’s communication with the lawyers for Pollard was not available to the public,

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Jonathan Pollard will be released from a U.S. prison, November 20, after serving 30 years of a life sentence. The civilian U.S. Navy analyst was convicted of spying for Israel. Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship in 1995.

and Semmelman and Lauer told JTA that they were not ready to release it.

The lawyers have secured lodging and employment for Pollard in the New York area once he is released.

Israeli officials and U.S. advocacy groups for years have called for the release of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy analyst arrested in 1985 and sentenced to See Pollard on page 16

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life in prison in 1987 for spying for Israel.

The hope is that he would move immediately to Israel.

A number of Israeli officials rushed to express the hope that they would greet him on his arrival in Israel, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was cautious, stopping short of looking forward to Pollard’s arrival in a short statement he released after he spoke with Pollard’s wife, Esther.

“After decades of effort, Jonathan Pollard will finally be released,” Netanyahu said. “Throughout his time in prison, I consistently raised the issue of his release in my meetings and conversations with the leadership of successive U.S. administrations. We are looking forward to his release.”

In 1995, Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship, in part because he hoped to travel to Israel as soon as he was released.

Mandatory parole did not guarantee Pollard’s release. However, as opposed to previous requests, where the burden was on Pollard to show why he should be released, in the case of mandatory parole, the burden was on the government to show why he should not be freed. Justice Department officials declined to raise objections.

“The Department of Justice has always maintained that Jonathan Pollard should serve his full sentence for the serious crimes he committed, which in this case is a 30-year sentence, as mandated by statute, ending Nov. 21, 2015,” Justice

Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said in an email to JTA. Another spokesman later clarified that under the law at the time Pollard was prosecuted, “an individual would be presumed eligible for mandatory parole once they had served two-thirds of their sentence. Thirty years is two-thirds of 45.”

Obama administration officials have been at pains to distinguish between the November 20 parole and the earlier denied requests.

A number of media reports and critics of the Obama administration have said that Pollard’s release is compensation to Israel for the Iran nuclear deal reached between the major powers and Iran on July 14. Israel’s government rejects the deal and is urging the U.S. Congress to use its power to kill it.

“Mr. Pollard’s status was determined by the United States Parole Commission according to standard procedures, and the Parole Commission’s decision was in no way linked to foreign policy considerations,” Baskey said.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella foreign policy body for the community, in welcoming the paroled release announcement also emphasized that Iran was not a factor.

“We do not believe that there is any connection to the nuclear agreement with Iran,” its statement said. “The parole date was set at the time of his sentencing and the current parole process preceded the negotiations with Iran.”

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Egyptians and their leaders are warming to Jews, Israel

BY JACOB WIRTSCHAFTER

CAIRO (JTA) – It’s been a particularly challenging summer for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi. Within one week in late June and early July, his attorney general was assassinated in the upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis and an Islamic State affiliate launched a two-day siege in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid.

But, just days after the bloody Sinai battle, Sisi put aside two hours to meet with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy group, and then delivered a matter-of-fact account of the meeting to the state-run Middle East News Agency. The conversation revolved around regional terrorism threats, the stalled peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, the nuclear deal with Iran and the preservation of Egyptian Jewish heritage, according to the AJC’s director of government and international affairs, Jason Isaacson, who co-ordinated the delegation.

The AJC meeting at the presidential palace came at a time when Egyptian attitudes about Jews are changing.

Egyptians are reassessing 1950s-era nationalization policies that squeezed out the Jewish community and other ethnic minorities. The word “Jew” is used less frequently as a curse word, and the

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi (centre) meeting with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee, July 2015.

historical TV drama Jewish Quarter was a breakout hit during Ramadan. The series cast the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as a greater threat to Egypt’s unity and security than the Jews and, sometimes, even the Zionists. (Past TV series during Ramadan have traded in negative tropes and stereotypes about Jewish “treachery” and hostility, so Jewish Quarter represented a major departure.)

“I find more tolerance,” said Isaacson,

referring to the period since Sisi came to power in 2013. “I find more respect for Israel and more feeling of commonality between Egyptian and Israeli strategic concerns with common attitudes towards Hamas, especially toward the connections between Hamas and other extremist groups.”

Officially, fewer than eight Jews remain in this capital city – all of them elderly women. The community’s leader, Magda

Haroun, last month opened the heavily guarded and rarely used Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in downtown Cairo for an interfaith Ramadan Iftar event, the daily break-fast meal during the holy month. (There were some 75,000 Jews in Egypt before 1948, but, in the 1950s, the Jewish population was largely stripped of citizenship and assets by then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser.)

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AJA 50+ announces fall programming for retirees

BY ANNETTE PAQUIN AJA 50+

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or 15 years, AJA (Active Jewish Adults) 50+ has offered yearround programming for retirees in Ottawa. The philosophy of AJA 50+ is “by members, for members.” More than 100 programs are suggested and organized by the membership each year.

Fall 2015 will feature a wide variety of programming.

For the amateur astronomer, Howard Simkover will kick off the fall session with “Rocks from the Sky: Meteors and Meteorites.” Other interesting science-based programming will include “Hey, What Happened to You? My Victory over Leukemia,” with Bernard Gotleib, Canada’s longest surviving bone marrow transplant recipient and “The Transgendered Brain” with Carleton University neuroscientist Elaine Waddington Lamont.

For history buffs, participants can explore life during the 1800s on a visit to Upper Canada Village or experience the tragedy of life behind bars with an historic tour of Hawkesbury Prison. A special behind-the-scenes tour of the architecture of the Supreme Court of Canada is also being offered. A knowledgeable historian will take us through the Jacob M. Lowy Collection, Canada’s national treasure of old and rare Judaica

AJA 50+ is a membership and volunteer-driven organization. A volunteer appreciation tea was held, June 3, at the Billings Estate.

spanning five centuries.

Art lovers will not be disappointed.

There will be tours of the National Gallery and visits to studios of local artists Ozzie Silverman and Lynn Dubinsky. Back by popular demand is Leonard Shore who always brings us interesting current criminal cases that participants, as jurors, have to adjudicate.

In addition to many other fascinating topics, regular weekly programming will continue, including Drop-in Bridge, mah-jongg, Sharing the Music, Scrabble

and Chess for Fun. The popular Jewish Film Series, in partnership with the Greenberg Families Library, will again offer an outstanding lineup of contemporary films from Israel and around the world.

Creative Connections, a day program for seniors over age 75 who wish to have a full day of programming in a Jewish environment with their peers, will return in October with a very special programming lineup. This season, Creative Connections will have enriched program-

ming and healthy snacks, and will be able to ensure transportation is available for all participants. An intensive music program of both performance and participation is new this session.

The AJA 50+ fall activity guide will be available by the third week of August, and registration for fall programs will take place Monday, August 24, 9:30-11:30 am at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre. Information on membership and registration for programs is also available at www.aja50plus.ca.

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Bill and Leona Adler Memorial Fund In Memory of: Anna Froimovitch by Marilyn Adler Norman Lesh by Marilyn Adler In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Bill Adler Beloved father by Jeff, Marilyn and Elayne Adler Samuel and Jean Akerman Memorial Fund In Honour of: Sid and Carolyn Katz Mazel Tov on your upcoming anniversary by Sheila and Larry Hartman Fred and Esther Ballon Family Fund In Memory of: Norman Lesh by Fred and Esther Ballon Boris and Dolly Blacher Family Fund In Memory of: Arthur Klein by Marla Blacher Sid and Barbara Cohen Family Fund R’fuah Shlema: Norman Zagerman by Sid and Barbara Cohen The Friedberg and Dale Families Fund In Honour of: Susan Marcus and Mark Silver Mazel Tov on your 25th anniversary by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Neil and Bella Kraitberg Mazel Tov on your 25th anniversary by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale Harold and Rosalie Schwartz Mazel Tov on Leah`s engagement by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale In Memory of: Phyllis Friedberg by Elaine Friedberg and Bob Dale In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Tillie Dale Beloved mother by Bob Dale Evelyn and Irving Greenberg Fund In Memory of: Milton Shaffer by Evelyn Greenberg

Gunner Family Fund In Memory of: Arthur Klein by Sol and Estelle Gunner David, Harvey, Victor Kardish Family Fund In Memory of: Norman Lesh by Margo and David Kardish Milton (Red) Shaffer by Margo, David, Aaron and Gail Kardish Nordau and Roslyn Kanigsberg Family Fund In Memory of: David Ben-Reuven by Nordau and Roz Kanigsberg Morris and Lillian Kimmel Family Fund In Memory of: Elaine Singer by Janet, Steve, Tobin & Aaron Kaiman David Ben-Reuven by Brenda Levine and Janet Kaiman In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Bill Adler by Janet, Steve, Tobin and Aaron Kaiman Russell and Joan Kronick Anniversary Fund In Honour of: Joan and Russell Kronick Mazel Tov on your three celebrations by Toby and Ted Nathanson Russell and Joan Kronick Family Fund In Memory of: David Ben-Reuven by Joan and Russell Kronick Norm Lesh by Joan and Russell Kronick In Honour of: Yvonne Azuelos Happy special birthday by Russell and Joan Kronick Max Lieff Family Fund In Memory of: Arnell Goldberg by Dorothy Lieff Elaine Singer by Dorothy Lieff Ida and Sidney Lithwick Fund In Honour of: Jonathan and Elana Lithwick Mazel Tov on the birth of Erica by Barry and Marieta Lithwick and family Howard and Carol Lithwick Mazel Tov on the birth of your granddaughter, Erica by Cathy and Dan Sigler and Sol and Estelle Gunner Shirley and Maurice Rose Family Fund In Memory of: Anne Froimovitch by Mavis and Simon Wasserberger Schachter-Ingber Family Fund In Honour of: Robert Lederman In honour of your special birthday by Rachel and Howard Schachter Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Family Fund In Memory of: Norman Lesh by Stephen and Debra Schneiderman Harold and Lillian Shoihet Memorial Fund In Honour of: Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Stokes Mazel Tov on your Anniversary by Dovid Shoihet & family

Lillian Shoihet Mazel Tov on your birthday by Dovid Shoihet Douglas Smith and Lisa Mason Mazel Tov on your royal wedding by David Shoihet In Memory of: Simcha Zirkind by Dovid Shoihet Skulsky Family Memorial Fund In Honour of: Steven Wiseman Best wishes on your birthday by Ray and Ernie Goldstein Stanley Wax Best wishes on your birthday by Ray and Ernie Goldstein Monica and Alvin Stein Family Fund In Honour of: Larry Hartman Happy Birthday and Mazel Tov on your recent retirement by Monica and Alvin Stein Ralph and Anne Sternberg Memorial Fund In Honour of: Thomas Gussman Mazel Tov on your birthday by Laya and Ted Jacobsen In Memory of: Arthur Klein by Laya and Ted Jacobsen Sarah and Arnie Swedler Family Fund In Memory of: Arthur Klein by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin Norman Lesh by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin In Honour of: Norm Wolfish Happy Birthday by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin Larry Hartman Congratulations on your retirement by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin R`fuah Shlema: Norman Zagerman by Arnie Swedler and Rhoda Zaitlin Milton and Mary (Terry) Viner Family Fund In Observance of the Yahrzeit of: Cecil Viner A beloved father by Millie Schaenfield Eric Weiner and Arlene Godfrey Family Fund In Memory of: Norman Lesh by Carol Gradus Toby and Joel Yan Family Fund In Memory of: Sidney Lipsey by Toby and Joel Yan Arthur Klein by Joel and Toby Yan

Therapeutic Program In Honour of: Shayna Shuster Mazel Tov on your special birthday by Butch and Val Zinman IN HONOUR OF: Debi Shore by Sylvia Caplan Ralph Levenstein Best wishes for a happy, healthy year by Bill and Laura Chochinov Mark and Carol Tolchinsky Happy Anniversary

by Bill and Laurie Chochinov Joy Chochinov HappyBirthday by Bill and Laurie Chochinov Steve Aronson Happy Birthday by Laizer Kaminsky and Sophie Kohn-Kaminsky Yehudah Lev Goldstein Mazel Tov on your Bar Mitzvah by Moishe Shapiro Irene Blieberg Happy Birthday by Elaine Hauptman Rosalie and Harold Schwartz Mazel Tov on the engagement of your daughter by Michael and Judy Aranoff Norman Wolfish Mazel Tov on your birthday by Norman Ironstone Jessica Strauss and Jean Surette Congratulations on the birth of Ethan Lawrence by Bill and Laurie Chochinov IN MEMORY OF: Therese Moore by Bill and Laurie Chochinov Elaine Singer by Bill and Laurie Chochinov, Lorna and Carl Raskin Edgar Wayne Boone by Laurie Chochinov Elaine Singer by Elaine Hauptman Anna Froimovitch by Janice and Ed Fine, the residents, staff and Board of the Lodge and LTC Foundation, Clair Krantzberg, Robert Krantzberg, Joshua, Jaclyn and Annie Krane, Sandy and Marvin Granatstein, Marlene & Seymour Dubrow, Merka and Ernest Weiss, Lenora and Paul Chamaillard, Sheri-Lyn Chamaillard, Mark, Iris, Alyssa and Joey Krantzberg, Helen and Norman Kalmanovitch, Zoe and Willy Kalmanovitch and Anne Siu Sydney Lipsey by Eric Elkin and Molly Hirsch David Boonov by Bill and Laurie Chochinov Minerva Cohen by Ruth and Lawrence Mendell Alice McKelvey by Dennis and Lorna Varden Milton Shaffer by Josh, Jaclyn and Annie Krane

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Carole and Norman Zagerman Family Fund In Memory of: Anna Froimovitch by Carole and Norman Zagerman ************** Feeding Program In Honour of: Clifford and Shirley Yumansky Mazel Tov on the birth of your granddaughter by Marilyn and David Ackman Elizabeth Petigorsky and Rachel Plotnick by Mariel Griffith In Memory of: Elaine Singer by Michael and Sylvia Caplan

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Egypt: Israeli and Egyptian armies sharing intelligence Continued from page 20

The meeting also coincided with a warming trend between Sisi, the strongman who leads the world’s most populous Arab country, and Israel. In June, Egypt appointed Hazem Khairat as its new ambassador to Tel Aviv. Sisi’s predecessor, Mohamed Morsi, long affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, had recalled the previous ambassador in November 2012 after the Israeli Air Force struck and killed a top Hamas military commander and launched an eight-day offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s war last summer in Gaza threw in sharp relief just how far from favour Hamas, founded as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has fallen in official Cairo since Sisi’s ascent to power.

(Morsi was removed in a 2013 military takeover orchestrated by Sisi, who became president the following year.) As Israel’s Operation Protective Edge unfolded, Egypt’s state-sanctioned TV stations specifically deployed the term “terrorist” to describe Hamas-launched missile attacks on Israel. And, in the wake of increased activity in the Sinai by affiliates of the Islamic State, the Israel Defense Forces’ Southern Command and the Egyptian Army in Sinai are increas-

ingly sharing intelligence on the movement of for-profit weapons smugglers and ideologically motivated militants.

Sisi’s administration has also been widely criticized in the West for clamping down on free speech and press freedoms, and for jailing political opponents.

Washington withheld funds and equipment from Egypt after a particularly violent confrontation in August 2013 between government troops and supporters of Morsi, a clash that left more than 600 dead on the streets of Cairo.

In March, U.S. President Barack Obama restored most of the $1.3 billion in annual military funding, and the Pentagon resumed shipments of new Harpoon missiles, F-16 fighter jets and replacement kits for Abrams tanks. The Egyptian Air Force’s ability to deploy F-16s allowed government troops to beat back the assault against Sheik Zuweid by Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, an ISIS-affiliated group.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo August 3, where he co-chaired a “Strategic Dialogue” meeting with Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs, Sameh Shoukry.

If anyone in Egypt deserves credit for the contemporary shift in attitudes, perhaps it is Amir Ramses, whose recent

The historical TV drama Jewish Quarter was a hit in Egypt during Ramadan.

two-part documentary project The Jews of Egypt and End of a Journey explores the rise and demise of the Jewish communities of Cairo and Alexandria between the late-19th and middle-20th centuries.

Ramses, a middle-class Muslim from Cairo, battled official censors here under the administrations of both Morsi and Hosni Mubarak, and Islamists were particularly rankled by the documentary’s revisiting of the “Balfour Day” riots instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood in 1945. They coincided with the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the 1917 letter declaring Britain’s intention to set

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Ramses said he was intrigued by stories from his grandparents about Jewish, Greek and Italian neighbours whose different foods and folkways added an international flair to the metropolis – a flair that is now decidedly absent.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) – The U.S. Congress has until late-September to consider whether to reject the nuclear restrictions for the sanctions rollback deal reached by Iran and six major powers on July 14. Some of the debate is over the meaning of certain provisions in the accord. Here’s a breakdown of differences in how the sides interpret parts of the deal.

THE 24 DAYS All sides agree that the deal has a rigorous inspections regime for Iran’s known sites: “24/7” scrutiny, as U.S. President Barack Obama has put it, with inspectors and video monitoring.

But what happens when intelligence agencies suspect nuclear weapons activity at an unmonitored site?

Under the agreement, Iran has 14 days to work out terms to check the site in question with a joint commission composed of its own representatives along with those from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, the European Union, Russia and China. If, after 14 days, terms are not agreed upon, the commission has up to seven days for a majority of its members to decide on terms of inspection. Iran must comply within three days – a total of 24 days.

Obama and his Cabinet have said that detectable signs of nuclear enrichment activity outlast 24 days – by centuries, even.

But critics say there are other activities related to nuclear weaponization that can go undetected, such as computer modelling for nuclear devices, explosives See Iran on page 26

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Iran: Will deal put U.S. and allies on collision course? the United States to avoid sabotage operations like Stuxnet, the computer virus believed to have been designed by Israel and the United States that wrecked Iran’s centrifuges in 2010.

But Dubowitz says the wording may give Iran legal cover to solicit assistance from other countries, such as China, in stopping cyber-attacks.

“It’s not clear from the agreement,” he said.

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testing and the building of nuclear warheads, said Mark Dubowitz, director of the Foundation of Defense of Democracies.

“That kind of activity may not involve actual enrichment where there would be traces of uranium to detect,” he told JTA. Additionally, a small centrifuge plant with advanced centrifuges in a containment system could be rapidly moved without leaving traces, according to U.S. Senate testimony given August 4 by David Albright, a former U.S. nuclear inspector who is now president of the Institute for Science and International Security.

Deal proponents say the mining and transportation of the uranium needed for a contained enrichment site would be impossible to hide, given the numerous monitoring and verification choke points.

Additionally, Iran has little to gain from such small-scale cheating like testing explosives, said Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst with the Rand Corp.

PREVENTING SABOTAGE Among the agreement’s provisions aimed at ensuring nuclear safety is “co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable

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nuclear security and physical protection systems.”

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for the 2016 presidential nomination, argues that this provision sets the United States and its traditional allies in the Middle East on a collision course by requiring the United States to help Iran defend itself against

Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other U.S. allies in the region.

But Daryl Kimball, president of the Arms Control Association, says that is not the intention of the provision. Rather it’s meant to maintain security at civilian nuclear sites so terrorists can’t access them or steal equipment for other countries. The provision does not oblige

GHASAN SOLEYMANI Soleymani, the general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps whose Quds force is believed to have trained Hezbollah and helped carry out some of the worst Assad regime atrocities during the ongoing Syrian civil war, has appeared on a broad array of sanctions lists since 2007. In the agreement, he appears on a long list of entities and individuals to be removed from “nuclear-related” sanctions lists.

Critics say that this and other de-listings open up the floodgates to global financial activity by the Revolutionary Guard.

Deal defenders note that Soleymani still appears on multiple lists, in the United States and elsewhere, sanctioning him for terrorist activity.

“The United States has a lot of leverage on that person,” Kimball said.

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Camp Gan Izzy enjoys ‘exceptional summer’

BY LOUISE RACHLIS FOR CAMP GAN ISRAEL

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ast year, Ariel Wilbur was still singing summer day camp songs long into the fall.

This summer, six-year-old Ariel, his brother, Jonah, 9, and sister, Lilly, 3, all loved their experiences at Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa. It was Ariel’s second year and Lilly’s first. Jonah has attended the Chabad-affiliated day camp – nicknamed “Camp Gan Izzy” and part of an international network of Gan Israel day camps – for four years.

“I sent them there because I was familiar with the facility, because they went to the [Westboro Jewish Montessori] preschool,” said the Wilbur children’s mother, Dina Schneider. “I knew the programming would be top notch, and my kids would be safe and included.”

Jonah has life-threatening allergies, and his mother felt secure that the camp knew how to deal with food issues.

“We’ve always felt welcome there,” said Schneider, who grew up Reform and attends Temple Israel. “The kids go to Temple school, but they love the davening. It reinforces their Jewish identity.

There is so much spirit in the camp! They come home singing.”

She said Lilly couldn’t wait to get to camp.

Three-year-old Lilly Wilbur is a happy camper in the pool at Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa.

“This has been a really wonderful experience to open her up to that. I’m a teacher and don’t have to send my kids to

camp – but they really wanted to go.”

Camp Gan Izzy has been run by Yosef and Devora Caytak since the 1990s, out of

the Jewish Youth Library building at 192 Switzer Avenue, using the beautiful outdoor pool for group and private swimming lessons.

The 2015 theme at Camp Gan Izzy was “Floating Towards a Better World” and there was a full calendar of special activities like “Jump Rope” with the Ottawa Acro Ropers, “Spiderman Magnetic Climbing Wall” with Funatorium Explorium, “Wooden Rod Puppetry” with the Rag and Bone Puppet Theatre, “Animal Adventures” to Barnyard Zoo, Lego Day, and more.

There was swimming, with swim instruction, every day except Wednesdays.

“Our campers look forward to Camp Gan Izzy all year round,” said Devora Caytak, director of the camp, and of Westboro Jewish Montessori Preschool.

“This summer was an exceptional year.

Our registration increased over 10 per cent, with families sending their children from all over the city. We are looking forward to an even larger registration next year.”

Visit www.cgiottawa.org or call Devora Caytak at 613-729-7712 for more information about Camp Gan Israel of Ottawa.

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Athletes recognized at SJCC Breakfast of Champions

BY JON BRAUN SOLOWAY JCC

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ocal athletes, winning teams and volunteers were recognized for their achievements, June 14, at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre’s 14th annual Breakfast of Champions featuring keynote speaker Osvaldo Jeanty, the former Carleton Ravens basketball all-Canadian.

The Noah Cantor Middle School Athletes of the year were Samantha Tanner and Jonah Cantor. Jonah is the nephew of Noah Cantor, a four-time Grey Cup champion.

The Jack Goldfield High School Athletes of the Year were Rachel Feldberg and Daniel Novick.

The Parliament Lodge Graduating Student Athletes of the Year were Nepean High School graduate Zachary Shabinsky and Glebe Collegiate graduate Samantha Cogan. Zach will be attending the University of Miami this fall where he will be studying business, while Sam will be attending the University of Wisconsin where she will be a student athlete playing varsity hockey for the NCAA Lady Badgers.

The Sharon Koffman Memorial Award, given to the top university varsity athlete, was won by Elie Vered who led Liberty College of Hartford Connecticut in winning the NCAA Division 3 Hockey Championship.

Manny Olszynko was awarded the Irving ‘Shap’ Shapero Award for his longtime commitment to JCC Athletics as a volunteer in the JCC Men’s Basketball League.

The Lou Honigman Award, which is awarded to “a local Jewish athlete who, on account of his perseverance, courage, ability and strength of character, distinguishes himself or herself in a local sporting activity

Jack Goldfield High School Athletes of the Year Daniel Novick (left) and Rachel Feldberg (right) with Morley Goldfield.

Noah Cantor Middle School Athletes of the year Jonah Cantor (left) and Samantha Tanner (right) with four-time Grey Cup champion Noah Cantor.

over a lengthy period of time,” was posthumously awarded to Arnie Vered, Mark Kerzner and Howard Osterer. Arnie, Mark and Howard not only participated in community athletics for many years, they all were community volunteers who were committed to making Ottawa’s Jewish community a special place to live and raise families.

Parliament Lodge Graduating Student Athletes of the Year Zachary Shabinsky (left) and Samantha Cogan (right) with keynote speaker Osvaldo Jeanty.

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Reflecting on seven years of Bulletin columns: I’ve tried to encourage people to think about things from a new perspective

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s the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin has asked me to step down from my columnist’s post, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank one person in particular, and to reflect on my time writing the Values, Ethics, Community column.

Thanks go to my editor, Michael Regenstreif, who gave me the opportunity to find my public writing voice.

After requesting a couple of book reviews in 2008, Michael offered me a regular column. I will forever be grateful for the opportunity. As an academic, it has been particularly gratifying to be offered a platform in which to share my ideas more broadly, beyond the audience of my peers alone. Indeed, since finding my feet at the Bulletin, I’ve had regular columns or been a frequent blogger at Haaretz, the Daily Beast, the Jewish Independent (Vancouver), the Forward, the Canadian Jewish News and the Globe and Mail. Michael tipped the ball into the court for me.

What I’ve tried to do in the Bulletin is five-fold. I’ve tried to share some of my own vulnerabilities and challenges around issues such as parenting in general, Jewish parenting in particular, marriage and mortality.

I’ve tried to transfer parking-lot chatter into informed and balanced commentary surrounding emotional issues such as day school decisions, synagogue rules around Hebrew school attendance for obtaining bar and bat mitzvah privileges, and community kashrut requirements and negotiations.

I’ve tried to strengthen commitment toward Jewish literacy, including education, knowledge of Israeli politics and culture and, especially, Hebrew language.

I’ve tried to suggest more ethical ways of conducting ourselves individually and in our community, including issues around environmentalism, LGBTQ inclusion,

MIRA SUCHAROV

VALUES, ETHICS, COMMUNITY As an opinion writer leaving one perch, it’s tempting to ask whether I changed any minds. I doubt it.

Judging from the letters-to-the-editor I read, I know I raised blood pressure levels among some readers. I also know from casual conversation that I pleased the sensibilities of others, though they were probably less likely to write to the paper. how we treat domestic workers, disability inclusion, responding to Islamophobia and pursuing social justice more generally.

And I’ve tried to shed light to offset the polarized heat generated by the red-hot issue of Israeli policy, and how these ideas get played out in the Diaspora. While, to the best of my recollection, party affiliation in Canada – or party preference in Israel – never came up, I made no secret of my distress over the ongoing Israeli occupation and the need to have serious and sustained discussion about what can be done. Neither did I give those, like

How I cracked my sugar addiction

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t home or on the go, I try to keep healthy snacks on hand. I’m far from perfect. There are days when I give in to mindless, unhealthy snacking. There’s always room for improvement. I periodically make a conscious decision to improve my habits. Over the past eight years, my lifestyle changes have included adding regular exercise and eliminating fast food, fried food and soft drinks from my diet, as well as reducing my sodium intake. This spring, I made a commitment to myself to stop eating foods containing added sugar. Given my sweet tooth, I knew this would be very difficult, which is why I set my goal as a one-month trial.

I chose sugar because: 1. I’m addicted to it. When I don’t have it, I feel irritable or tired.

2. I educated myself on the recent scientific associations between sugar and a host of chronic health issues.

3. I was inspired by Eat Clean author Tosca Reno whom I interviewed. Her one-month Strike Sugar Challenge doesn’t permit sugar, grains and most dairy and fruit. See my recent column, “There’s no sugar coating from Tosca Reno,” in the June 22 issue.

Some mid-20th century doctors recommended cigarettes, and sugar companies touted their products as healthy – low in calories, high in energy and helpful for curbing your appetite. These days, we know smoking is dangerous, but we’re not as informed about sugar. Sugar is no longer promoted in ads or on packaging, but it’s more prevalent than ever.

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FOCUS ON FITNESS A number of people – those who also struggle with unhealthy habits, are diabetic or are just curious – have asked me for the parameters of my self-imposed sugar-free challenge. (See your doctor or dietician, if you have health issues). I decided not to eat any desserts or snacks containing sugar or other sweeteners such as honey or aspartame. Cake, cookies, candy, ice cream and my beloved chocolate were off limits. I also cut out most processed foods containing added sugar; for example, canned pasta sauce, ketchup, sweet pickles, crackers and breakfast cereals. I continued to eat whole grain bread even though it contains some sugar because I’ve been on a doctor-advised protein-restricted diet for many years. If you have no reason to limit your protein, eat lean protein as it’s a more nutritious and satiating choice, as are healthy fats. I’ve been asked if I cut out fruit because it contains a lot of natural sugar. I did not. Fruit is full of fibre and nutrients.

The first couple of days without my sweet treats were not easy. I felt a bit of psychological withdrawal. I also had to think more about what I was going to eat.

the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) community, much play. In my estimation, neither of those positions – full BDS or tacit acceptance of the status quo – will lead to the kind of endgame necessary for both Israelis and Palestinians to maintain collective and individual needs, desires and dignity. I also sought to inject an analytical overlay to issues I felt were being misunderstood in the fog of parochial loyalties, such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

As an opinion writer leaving one perch, it’s tempting to ask whether I changed any minds. I doubt it. Judging from the letters-to-the-editor I read, I know I raised blood pressure levels among some readers. I also know from casual conversation that I pleased the sensibilities of others, though they were probably less likely to write to the paper.

And I know that my political perspective – squarely within the Zionist tent, but not right wing enough to suit the tastes of some of the establishment voices in Jewish Ottawa – cost me a leadership position at a Jewish community institution I had believed in, and had faithfully served for several years. This is something I wrote about in my blog at Haaretz, and it was a jarring realization that critical wrestling is not good enough when it comes to the tone and tenor of our donor-driven community. Sadly, the problem is not unique to Ottawa.

What I have tried to do more than anything else in my seven years at the Bulletin is to encourage people to think about things from a new perspective, even if for a moment; and to model what I believe is the tenor of discourse essential to a productive exchange of ideas in any society or community. In that, I hope I succeeded.

Grabbing cookies from the cupboard was no longer an option, nor was my morning bowl of Cheerios. One of the secrets to success is to put some effort into planning. I made hard-boiled eggs and kept them in the fridge along with a fruit bowl and cut up veggies and hummus. If it’s easily accessible and visually appealing, you’re more likely to eat it. Don’t keep all fruits and vegetables in the crisper drawers; out of sight is out of mind.

After my initial shell shock I was, surprisingly, no longer craving sweets. I also wasn’t feeling tempted at restaurants when people ate dessert in front of me. I actually enjoyed watching them indulge and I was OK with it because I knew I was doing something healthy for myself. I do the grocery shopping, so I didn’t buy cookies or other sweets because I still wasn’t sure I’d have the willpower when I was home alone with my old nemeses.

What was the outcome of this experiment? I lost five pounds. Not a whole lot, but enough for my tummy to look flatter. You can lose weight with any type of caloric reduction. In my case, the key was replacing sugary snacks with lower-calorie, more nutritionally dense snacks, as well as cutting out desserts and miscellaneous items containing sugars. I estimate I reduced my daily sugar consumption by 90 per cent.

When the month was over, I was proud of myself. But short-lived change doesn’t have much impact. It has to be a lifestyle change. The potential long-term preventative health benefits of sugar reduction are real and significant. I decided to keep up this routine. It’s been three months so far with two “cheats.” I’m always honest with you. I was in New Orleans this summer and allowed myself to indulge in beignets. And, yes, they were delicious!

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PJ Library program goes ‘beyond the books,’ parents say

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hy were almost 200 kids and their parents enjoying a kosher barbecue and playtime in Centrepointe Park on June 14?

Books.

PJ Library in the Park was the largest and most successful gathering yet of Jewish families in Ottawa who subscribe to PJ Library.

Every month, PJ Library sends free Jewish-content books to families with children ages six months to six-and-a-half years. For Chanukah, a CD of Jewish music is sent.

With parents and their kids building a special bond by reading the Jewish books together at bedtime, families are now reaching out to each other through PJ Library events. Mom’s and Dad’s Night Out events also complement the kids’ activities so that the parents can network and make friends in an adult setting.

“I think, in the programming sense from all the activities that we run, parents are getting a chance to meet each other, and to connect with other Jewish parents and build their own Jewish community and have their own Jewish network,” said Ariel Fainer, director of the Emerging Generation Division at the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, who co-ordinates PJ Library locally.

That has been very true for the four co-chairs of PJ Library in the Park, Jessica and Justin Shulman, and Jordana Polowin Lesser and Ari Lesser, who said that while it is all about the kids, the parents get so much out of the programming, too.

Family and togetherness is the “common thread that links people,” said Jessica Shulman, 35. “Different people have different levels of observance and belong to different denominations within the Jewish religion. So

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they wouldn’t necessarily overlap, otherwise.”

Parents in the emerging generation range in age from their early-20s to their mid-40s, so it was natural that some friend groups or networks simply never crossed, until a common interest and purpose brought them together.

Jordana Polowin Lesser, 33, who was born and raised in Ottawa, can attest to that. Most of her lifelong, Jewish friendships are a result of her time spent at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa. But, her husband, Ari Lesser, 36, only moved to Ottawa after they married. He said the Dad’s Night Out events have helped to include the fathers who don’t have the traditional support systems that many mothers do.

While PJ Library in the Park wasn’t the first event to draw out dozens of Ottawa families, it is being recognized as a benchmark of success for anticipating both parents’ and kids’ needs.

The Shulmans and the Lessers highlighted four main areas where both the children’s events and parents’ events succeed.

1. Time to plan. Just about every parent will tell you that last-minute plans are out of the question when it comes to young children with routines. They said parents told them they appreciated having enough

lead-time to co-ordinate the family for events.

2. Flexibility. The events and activities are low-commitment. The parent organizers know that sometimes things come up after a family or parent has sent their RSVP and that there will be some no-shows. That’s OK. Life happens.

3. Variety. There were different activities for children at PJ Library in the Park, from Monkey Rock music to a splash pad, to games, crafts and story time. For the Mom’s and Dad’s Night Out events, the venues and formats evolve according to attendee feedback.

4. Inclusivity. This critical aspect spans everything from religious affiliation to gender, and the organizers said they plan for everyone. At the park event, Polowin Lesser said there were two mashgiachs ensuring the food was kosher, a concern for some families. She also praised Fainer for meticulously going through ingredient lists of the food cooked at the barbecue. “There are not a lot of barriers to getting involved,” Polowin Lesser said. “It’s not religiously affiliated, so you can be anybody and come and just be culturally religious and show up and be comfortable. There’s no Jewish component to it except that we’re Jewish and we live in Ottawa.”

“Give it a try, and meet new people, and enjoy it for what it is,” Jessica Shulman said. “It’s such a rich, important program in our community. It’s such a blessing to have this at our fingertips.”

Ottawa is one of 200 communities in North America that participates in PJ Library. More than five million books have been mailed out since its inception and there are currently 125,000 active subscribers.

For more information about PJ Library and its events, contact Ariel Fainer at pjlibrary@jewishottawa.com or 613-798-4696 ext. 240.

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A murder case that shocked Ottawa’s Jewish community in 1931 Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case

By Monda Halpern McGill-Queen’s University Press 276 pages

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rom all accounts, it was an extramarital affair and a killing that shocked the small, close-knit Jewish community centred in the Lowertown and Sandy Hill neighbourhoods of Ottawa 84 years ago.

In 1931, jewelry store owner Ben Edelson and his wife, Alice, had been married for two decades – she was just 15 when they wed – and they had seven children. But, for eight years, Alice had been having an affair with Jack Horwitz, also a jewelry store owner. There were suspicions that one or two of the Edelson children had been fathered by Horwitz.

On the night of November 24, 1931, Edelson followed his wife to Myrand Avenue in Lowertown and confronted her and Horwitz there. After a brief argument, the three agreed to adjourn to Edelson’s jewelry store at 24 Rideau Street to discuss the affair and what to do about it.

At the store, an argument ensued when Edelson wanted to call Horwitz’s wife, Yetta, to the meeting.

Horwitz was shot and killed with the gun Edelson kept in the store (apparently, a common practice at Ottawa jewelry stores at the time).

In the thoroughly researched Alice in Shandehland: Scandal and Scorn in the Edelson/Horwitz Murder Case, Monda Halpern, an associate professor of history at

MICHAEL REGENSTREIF

BOOK REVIEW Western University, uses newspaper accounts from the time, court records, material from the Ottawa Jewish Archives, and interviews with community members – including helpful members of the Edelson and Horwitz families – to recreate the circumstances of the case and examine its consequences.

Halpern effectively sets the scene with detailed biographical sketches of the principal players in this tragic drama, vivid descriptions of the events that unfolded, analysis of the court case that ensued, and of how the scandal affected the Jewish community and the standings of the principals, and of their families, in the community.

Readers will find themselves gripped by the unfolding events of that cold November night in 1931 when the shooting occurred and of the events that followed, from Edelson’s arrest, to the court case and his ultimate acquittal on the murder charge.

Although Edelson’s lawyer argued that Horwitz was

killed when the gun went off accidentally during a scuffle, Halpern, as she notes very early in the book (so this is not a spoiler), attributes Edelson’s acquittal to the all-male jury’s embrace of the “unwritten law – according to which betrayed men are entitled to avenge their wife’s seducer.”

Ultimately, the Edelson marriage endured despite Alice’s long affair, the killing of her lover and the criminal trial of her husband. They remained married another 40 years until Alice’s death at age 76 in 1972. By the 1960s, the couple revelled in their roles as grandparents, and Alice was an active volunteer for several community organizations rising to the presidency of her Hadassah-WIZO chapter.

Ben Edelson continued to run his store well into his senior years before passing it on to his daughter Dina. He died at age 98 in 1988, spending his final eight years as a resident of Hillel Lodge on Wurtemburg Street in Lowertown.

Edelson Jewellers remained a family business until finally closing in 2005.

Soon after the trial, Horwitz’s widow, Yetta, moved away from Ottawa with their daughter. She soon remarried and lived, first in Montreal,then in Los Angeles, until her own death at age 98 in 1998.

The main events discussed in Alice in Shandehland took place five and six years before the founding of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin in 1937. In the ensuing decades, it seems the case was only discussed in whispers in Ottawa’s Jewish community – so this book review is probably the first time the Edelson/Horwitz case has been discussed in this newspaper. I wonder how my predecessors would have covered this case had it happened just a few short years later, or how I might approach a case like this if it happened today. I hope we never have to find out.

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