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Shabbat for all ColumbusBy Pam Spence
Almost everyone knows the old joke about two Jewish guys, Ira and Moishe, who were ma-rooned on a desert island. They decide they need to build a place of worship so they build three synagogues: one for Ira who is Orthodox, one for Moishe who is Reform and one synagogue that both of them refuse to enter.
We all laugh at our foibles, but the reality is unfortunate. All too often those things that should bring us together keep us apart. But if Jerry and Laura Moskow Sigal have anything to
say about it – and they do – all that is about to change. They have been heading up an initia-tive that began in South Africa a few years ago and through the power of social media has spread around the world: The Shabbat Project has gone viral. See related story on page 5.
And so it has come to pass, that on October 22-24 the Co-lumbus Jewish Community will participate in 614 Shabbat: One Shabbat for All Columbus. All of the Jewish organizations in town will be hosting mem-bers and non-members to their events. There will be lots of choices for people interested in participating.
“We are generating over-whelming interest in the week-end activities,” says Jerry Si-gal, chair of the 614 Shabbat weekend. “Our original target was to have a total of eight synagogues and Jewish organi-zations involved. We currently have over 30.”
Jackie Jacobs, CEO of the Columbus Jewish Foundation, says “I was excited about this from the very beginning. It is incredible to see the entire Jew-ish community come together to celebrate Shabbat the way it was meant to be.
“If, as some believe, Shab-
very generous.”“We have been able to order
kits of things to be used in the Shabbats and through the gen-erosity of our donors, we will be able to give those away for free. The kits are from Israel and are made by disabled adults,” says Laura Sigal.
614 Shabbat will provide a short handbook for members including prayers/blessings in both Hebrew and English, recipes for Shabbat dinner, and songs that can be sung follow-ing the dinner as well as some learning topics to enhance their understanding of Shabbat.
Details can be found on the 614Shabbat Facebook page. Emails can be sent to [email protected].
For Alyssa Russell, outreach coordinator for the Colum-bus Jewish Federation, she sees this event as an huge op-portunity to reach out across neighborhoods and across generations.. “It is going to be appealing to the entire commu-nity, to those individuals and families who are unaffiliated; to the younger generation who, as revealed in the Pew report, want to go to places where they are more comfortable, whether that might be in Jewish spaces or in public spaces. And it begins with the children and baking challah. Children want to be part of this, and make it their own. In some circles, Shabbat is ‘untouchable’ but an event like this, provides so many teaching moments, it brings Shabbat alive.”
Registration is required for all participants and can be found on Event Brite. The events are expected to sell out, so early registration is encouraged. Go to EventBrite.com and search for 614Shabbat.
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bat is the kingdom of every Jew, then hopefully this special community–wide celebration will open doors to that king-dom. Shabbat is the only ritual mentioned in the Ten Com-mandments. Why not allow ourselves the luxury to separate ourselves from the empty gods we all chase during our work lives? Why not take time to explore meaning in our relation-ships with each other and in our spirituality?
“Nowadays, one might be a lowly beggar or slave all week long, but still can be a king or queen on the Sabbath. Given
the opportunity to explore or re-explore that possibility, it will be interesting and fun to collectively check out, seek out and explore the significance of Shabbat and why it is so often said that ‘As the Jew has kept Shabbat, so has Shabbat kept the Jew.’”
“In Columbus, even though we have different Jewish de-nominations, and we might have differences in practice, we all do the same things, just to a differ-ent degree,” says Sigal. “We have eight synagogues here and every one of them is on board. We went to the Board of Rabbis and all of them agreed that this would be a good thing.” In fact, he says, the whole Columbus Jewish community is enthusias-tic and jumping in to volunteer on many fronts.
A case in point is the Challah Take & Bakes scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22 which will occur all over Columbus. The Columbus JCC, Beth Shalom/NCJW/Chabad, CJDS, CTA, Beth Tikvah, Moishe House, OSU Hillel and Wexner Heri-tage Village will all be hosting challah baking events. Fees to participate vary by location. “Most of us eat challah every Shabbat, but have never had the opportunity to actually braid and bake one ourselves,” said
Laura Moskow Sigal, co-chair of the committee.
“And Matt’s Bakery donated the materials, the dough, for the challah bake, says Jerry Sigal. “That was so generous and we have been very grateful for all of that..”
Just as the challah bakes will be hosted in multiple locations, providing times and places that are more convenient for more people, Friday night Shabbat dinners will be held at con-gregant’s homes, as well as different synagogue locations. Some of those dinner locations include Agudas Achim, Ahavas
Sholom, Beth Jacob, Columbus Community Kollel, CJDS, Beth Tikvah, Tifereth Israel, Torat Emet, Moishe House Colum-bus, OSU Hillel, Beth Shalom, and Temple Israel.
Then on Saturday, Oct. 24, various synagogue and organi-zations will be hosting learning sessions throughout the day: Beth Jacob, Agudas Achim, Ahavas Sholom, Beth Tik-vah, the Little Minyan Kehilla, Torat Emet, Temple Israel, and Wexner Heritage Village.
The weekend activities will culminate in a community-wide Havdalah Concert featuring entertainer Elijah Aaron Palnik. This concert will be held at the Columbus JCC at 7:30 pm. All children under 18 are free.
“Originally we only planned to have the Havdalah service on Saturday evening,” says Jerry Sigal. “We wanted to keep things manageable and not get too big. But through the generosity of our sponsors and donors we have been able to do things we never imagined. We have been able to keep costs to participate in the events low or in some cases, free. The Uncle Davey Fund of the Columbus Jewish Foundation is the sponsor of the Havdalah Concert and they have been
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PAINFUL HOPEWith Ali Abu Awwad and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger
Thursday, October 22, 7:30pm - 9:30pmNoor Islamic Cultural Center, 5001 Wilcox Road, Dublin OH 43016
How do we move beyond the cycle of violence that engulfs Israelis and Palestinians? The Roots/Shorashim/Judur project is a new effort, based in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank, to bring together Israelis and Palestinians who, despite living next to each other, are separated by walls of fear - not just fear of each other, but even of the price of peace. We are honored and excited to welcome to Columbus two of the leaders of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, Ali Abu Awwad (a longtime Palestinian peace activist) and Hanan Schlesinger (an Orthodox rabbi who lives in a West Bank settlement), who will present their gut-wrenching personal narratives that brought them to discover the humanity and legitimacy of the ‘other ’, and will discuss how they are working to move their communities past suspicion, fear, and violence, and towards a positive solution of the conflict. They come with no ready peace plans in hand, but only with the conviction that human understanding and trust will be the prerequisites for lasting justice, freedom and peace on that tiny sliver of land that they both call home.
With special thanks to our program sponsors and partners:
Thursday, October 22, 6:00pm - 7:00pmBeth Tikvah, 6121 Olentangy River Rd, Worthington, OH 43085
Thursday, October 22, 12:30pm - 1:30pmTifereth Israel, 1354 E Broad St, Columbus, OH 43205
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How do we move beyond the cycle of violence that engulfs Israelis and Palestinians? The Roots/Shorashim/Judur project is a new effort, based in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank, to bring together Israelis and Palestin-ians who, despite liv-ing next to each other, are separated by walls of fear.
Four area syna-gogues and the Noor I s l a m i c C u l t u r a l Center are working together to present a unique program, Roots/Shorashim/Ju-dur, conceived of by Rav Hanan Schlesing-er, an Orthodox rabbi who lives in a West Bank settlement, and Ali Abu Awwad, a lon-time Palestinian peace activist.
They will describe the personal experi-ences that brought them to discover the humanity and legiti-macy of the ‘other,’ and will discuss how they are working to move their com-munities past suspicion, fear, and violence, and towards a positive solution of the con-flict. They come with no ready peace plans in hand, but only with the conviction that human
understanding and trust will be the prerequisites for lasting justice, freedom and peace.
All three events take place on Thursday, Oct. 22, begin-ning with a 12:30 p.m. Lunch
and Learn at Tifereth Israel, 1354 E Broad St. An inexpen-sive lunch will be available to those in attendance. At 6 p.m., Schlesinger and Awwad will appear at Beth Tikvah Congre-gation, 6121 Olentangy River Road in Worthington. At 7:30
Beyond violence: Israeli/Palestinian conversation planned for Oct.22p.m., they will speak at the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, 5001 Wilcox Road, Dublin.
The program is being under-written by the host congrega-tions as well as Temple Israel
and Temple Beth Shalom. Alison Colman brought the program to the attention of the community, and is helping to facili-tate and partially underwrite the Co-lumbus visit.
C a n t o r J a c k Chomsky of Tife-reth Israel has also played a hand in planning the events of Oct. 22, with important support, encouragement, and energy from Imran Malik of the Noor Center.
Roots is an ini-tiative started by Palestinians and Israelis which aims to bring together people and com-
munities who are too often divided and resentful of one another. The project offers a paradigm shift, transforming the relationship between the sides and changing individu-als’ hearts and minds. Roots provides a space for under-
standing, where hate and sus-picion are challenged and the enemy is transformed into a neighbor and a partner.
Roots brings together or-dinary people as well as civil and religious leaders from both sides, thereby empowering existing moderate voices and creating new ones. Roots is catalyzing a grassroots move-ment for change and laying the societal foundation for future political settlement. Based in the West Bank, Roots is le-gitimizing the language of rec-onciliation and peace among those that see themselves most threatened by and opposed to peace or compromise. At Roots people from both sides see that there is a partner on the other side. Politically, Roots envisions a peace process that will emerge from joint efforts to solve the question of how Palestinians and Israelis will both live with freedom, dignity and rights.
Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist who teach-es his countrymen non-violent resistance and reaches out to Jewish Israelis at the heart of the conflict. He tours the world to tell his riveting story of vio-lent activism, imprisonment, bereavement, and discovery of the path of non-violent resistance. He says, “The path to Palestinian freedom should
run through Jewish hearts and minds.”
Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger divides his time between Israel and the USA. He serves as the Executive Director and Com-munity Rabbinic Scholar for the Jewish Studies Initiative of North Texas, which he founded in 2010. In this capacity he teaches adult education classes on Judaism and spearheads in-terfaith projects throughout the greater Dallas area. Most of his time is spent in Israel, where Rav Hanan serves as the direc-tor of international relations for Roots/Shorashim/Judur.
Rabbi Schlesinger is a mem-ber of the Rabbinical Council
of America and the Interna-tional Rabbinic Fellowship, as well as Beit Hillel, an Israeli rabbinical association. He is a Rabbis Without Borders fellow, and was honored in 2013 and again in 2014 as the Memnosyne Institute Interfaith Scholar.
For more information about the Roots Program taking place in Columbus, contact any of the host institutions (Tifereth Israel, Beth Tikvah, Noor Islamic Cultural Center) or Alison Colman at [email protected]; Cantor Jack Chomsky at Tifereth Israel 614-253-8523 or [email protected].
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wOrld newsPalestinian terror wave has Israel’s rabbis searching for spiritual solutions
By Deborah Fineblum Schabb
(JNS.org) - Their pictures and their names are burned on our hearts—victims of ter-rorism whose final moments we can’t even imagine. It’s in precisely these times that the job of spiritual leaders is both most challenging and most needed.
All across Israel, rabbis are
being asked to make whatever sense can be made of the on-going wave of Palestinian ter-ror attacks against Israeli Jews doing the kinds of regular things people do daily: going
to work, dropping off the kids, visiting friends, going shop-ping, attending synagogue services.
“It’s been a very sad day,” Rabbi Shlomo Riskin tells JNS.org. Oct. 9, a day when the founding chief rabbi of Efrat had visited four homes observing the Jewish mourn-ing week of shiva. “But I see these as the best of times and the worst of times—the best
because for the first time in 2,000 years, we can carve out our own destiny and future in our land, as we witness an ingathering of our exiles from all over the world. The worst
because the Palestinians have started a mountain of lies that we are encroaching on the Al-Aqsa mosque. They’re starting a budding intifada in malevolent and treacherous ways, which Abbas fomented in his speech before the U.N.”
“It’s something,” he adds with a sigh, “that I hope the world is beginning to see.”
Rabbi Berel Wein—histori-an, author, and rabbi of the Bet Knesset Hanasi congregation in Jerusalem—lays the blame
for the current attacks in great part at the feet of the media.
“The violence against Jews has been going on for 100 years here, so the uptick is because of the news cover-age—the terrorists win by publicity,” he says. “Televi-sion made ISIS.”
What does Wein recom-mend as a response to terror?
“You can’t live a hermeti-cally sealed life, but you also have to try for the best secu-rity, at least until they finally
make up their minds that Jews have a right to be here,” he says.
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel, argues that Israelis can’t run away in fear.
“Of course we hope that the attacks stop and at the very least, the security steps the government is taking will help avoid new problems,” he says.
Even with increased vio-lence, the Western Wall and
other significant Old City sites saw hundreds of thousands of visitors over the recent Sukkot holiday.
“It’s ironic and sad that, on the Sukkot holiday, when we pray for the safety and peace of all the nations, instead we are the victims of violence ourselves,” says Rabinowitz, adding, “It’s important to be at the Kotel (Western Wall) now, to pray for an end to the terror and show we aren’t
Ambulances at the Western Wall evacuate injured Israelis fol-lowing a terror attack in which a Palestinian woman stabbed a Jewish man near the Lions’ Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City in early October (Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90).
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(JNS.org) - In the midst of what seemed like a per-fect storm of major Jewish and Israel news stories last week, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked—a 39-year-old rising star in Israeli politics—had no shortage of talking points for both a speaking engage-ment before members of Bos-ton’s Jewish community and an interview with JNS.org.
In a wide-ranging talk on Thursday that was organized by Isaac Kohane, a neurosci-ence professor at Harvard University, Shaked answered
the audience’s questions on everything from the Iran nuclear deal to the battle over the Israeli Supreme Court to women’s rights in Israel.
But the topic that was freshest in everyone’s mind was clearly that day’s Pal-estinian terrorist attack in Samaria, in which the armed wing of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Ab-bas’s Fatah party murdered Israelis Eitam and Na’ama Henkin (both in their 30s) in a drive-by shooting in front of the couple’s four children, who all survived.
Striking the strong nation-
alist tone that she has become known for, the third-ranking Knesset member within Is-rael’s Jewish Home party was quick to blame Abbas for inciting violence such as recent terror attack and criti-cized the Palestinian leader’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly a day earlier. At the U.N., Abbas announced that the Palestin-ians would no longer abide by the 1993 Oslo Accords with Israel.
“I think this [attack] is the result of Mahmoud Abbas’s incitement, like what we
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Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in Boston address discusses concerns about escalating violence
Israeli Justice minister Ay-elet Shaked speaks at the Knesset on June 29 (Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90).
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and her roommates decided to host a Shabbat-morning Kid-dush last year for 300 people. So many more people came that they had to turn people away. Cherem also invited a family over for Shabbat din-ner. One of the women who came told her that she had lit the Shabbat candles that night—something she rarely, if ever, did. And she didn’t turn on the TV.
Last year, Shabbat Project events took place in hidden Jewish enclaves, including in Angola, Nigeria, Cambodia, Jamaica, Fiji, Finland, Zam-bia, the Maldives, and Ecuador. In Delémont, Switzerland, the last time the old synagogue was used was in 1971. It was reopened in 2014 to host students from across Switzer-land who had gathered for a Shabbat Project weekend.
The Argentine Jew-ish community pulled 13,000 people to-gether for a communal havdalah ceremony that was broadcast on national TV. In San-tiago, Chile, more than 2,500 women turned out for a com-munal challah-baking event.
In Miami, young Jewish girls studying at a Christian
thing that we want, that we are doing around the positive values of who we are.”
Goldstein also believes peo-ple crave a day to disconnect from the modern, fragmented, distracted, demanding world, and to reconnect on a spiritual level with God, community,
and family.Still, Goldstein
says that “no one dreamed” The Shab-bat Project could reach the size it is today or bring joy to so many individuals.
In the small city of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, the lo-cal synagogue has only 80 family units, and among them a handful observe Shabbat according
to halacha (Jewish law). Last year, Frieda Rinia helped a group of three women—all single, by death or divorce—observe Shabbat.
“It was very exciting,” Rinia writes in a letter to The Shab-bat Project. “The knowledge that all around the world Jew-ish people at the same time are keeping an entire Shabbat.…We feel it—all together.”
Daniela Cherem of Mexico City describes how she lives in an apartment building with many Jewish residents. She
to join him for Friday night dinner and make a commit-ment to try to keep the 25-hour day of rest. In the end, he had nearly 7,500 people take part.
After the event, when Gold-stein put up a video and par-ticipants shared their personal experiences through social
media, thousands of emails started pouring in, asking how the South African event could be emulated in local communities. In 2014, The Shabbat Project took place in 465 cities in six countries. This year, there are more than 5,000 partner groups working in more than 500 cities.
“I think there is a thirst for Jewish unity,” Goldstein tells JNS.org. “People are thirsting for Jews to rally not because we are forced to by our en-emies, but because it is some-
by Maayan Jaffe
(JNs.org) - Hundreds of thousands of Jews. Hundreds of thousands of challahs, can-dlesticks, and zemirot (Jewish songs). Havdalah.
From Oct. 23-24, Jews of all ages, levels of religious observance, and geographic loca-tions will come together to cel-ebrate the Jewish people’s oldest friend: Shabbat.
“Shabbos has b e e n w i t h u s since the forma-tion of our people and with every step of our Jewish journey, Shabbos has accompanied us. The Shabbos Project is like a reunion, a reconnection with our oldest friend,” says Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, chief rabbi of South Africa and founder of The Shabbat Project (also known as The Shabbos Project).
The Shabbat Project started as a local South African event in 2013. Goldstein threw the idea out of hosting a commu-nal Shabbat experience when speaking at a conference and then “felt forced” to make it happen. He says he expected 1,000 or 2,000 South Africans
school joined 5,000 others to bake challah.
“The day of the challah bake, we received a phone call from the Palmer Trinity School, a private Episcopal school in Miami, asking if they could reserve a table at the event. The Shabbat Project liaison…gingerly told them the evening would be focused on teaching Jewish religious val-ues,” recalls Alyssa Baumgar-ten. “The school said they understood that, but they saw our advertisement for the event in the newspaper and they felt that they wanted to send their
Jewish students….Ten Jewish girls who attend an Episcopal religious school came to the Miami challah bake. This was likely the only exposure these
girls have ever had with any-thing Jewish.”
At one point, more than 7,895 users tried to sign up for The Shabbat Project on the initiative’s website at the same time—crashing the server.
This year, in France, the Jewish community is bringing a baker from a famous French bakery to run the challah bake, says Rabbi Moche Lewin, who spearheads the project. France has been among the European Jewish communities struck with growing anti-Semitism and Islamist terrorism. Lewin says that given recent events,
The Shabbat Project is more important than ever.
“Sometimes, I think people feel stronger and more proud to be Jewish because of the terror,” says Lewin. “After the most recent attack in Paris [on a kosher supermarket in January], the people wanted
to come together to make a special Shabbos. But this was for sad reasons.…It is important to make that same
Women organized Challah baking in Miami for the shabbat Project (Credit: The Shabbat Project).
wOrld newsShabbat Project rallies 5,000 partners across 500 cities worldwide
a havdalah concert was held in buenos aires, ar-gentina, for the shabbat Project in 2014 (Credit: The Shabbat Project).
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Netanyahu at the UNanswer remains the same as the truth taught to me by my father: At least history will record that someone spoke out - and that in and of itself is heroic.
Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and an internation-ally recognized author, educator, religious leader, and lecturer See his website at www.ben-jaminblech.com. Reprinted with permission from The Kaddish Connection Network.
Blech, is in the front row, fifth from the left. The rabbis gath-ered in front of the Capitol, recited the Kaddish for all those who had perished, sang the traditional Jewish prayer for the nation’s leaders to the tune of the “Star Spangled Banner,”and sol-emnly read aloud, in English and Hebrew, their petition calling for the creation of a special Fed-eral agency to rescue European Jewry and expand the limited quota on Jewish refugee im-migration to the United States. They then marched to the White House with an urgent plea to allow them a few moments to make their case personally to the President.
FDR avoided the rabbis by leaving the White House through a rear exit while they marched silently in front. He claimed another pressing en-gagement. White House records confirmed his calendar was clear. The rabbis were snubbed. The Holocaust and the geno-cide of six million continued as before.
The question begs to be asked: What did the rabbis ac-complish?
My father often told me that this was one of the most im-portant lessons I had to learn in life. God does not judge us by way of our success, but by way of our efforts. It is not what we accomplish but what we attempt that truly defines us.
Just imagine if those rabbis
ous generation, a generation for whom demonstrations against government policy were un-known, protests unheard-of. Even to plead on behalf of the interests of one particular group was considered by most as un-American.
Rabbinic leaders were per-plexed; silence in the face of the slaughter of their fellow Jews was an impossible option, but they had difficulty coming up with a viable alternative. Orthodox spiritual leaders in particular faced an additional problem: With their beards and noticeably different garb, their appearance made them stand out as outsiders. And as fairly recent immigrants, many of them hardly spoke English. How could they possibly have any influence on American policy?
And yet, two days before Yom Kippur in 1943 history records that over 400 Orthodox rabbis, with their black hats and rabbinic frocks, converged on Congress and the White House in a stirring display of unity to rescue Jews from Nazi extermi-nation. These were the elders of the Orthodox community in the 1940s, mostly European-born Talmudic scholars, as unfamiliar with the political ways of the New World to which they had emigrated as they were with its language.
And one of them was my father.
My father, Rabbi Ben Zion
By Rabbi Benjamin Blech
As I watched the proceedings at the United Nations last week I couldn’t help but remember the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and my father – and, most important of all, the lesson my father taught me I needed to learn from that historic moment.
I would’ve liked to say the time my father met with Frank-lin Delano Roosevelt, but that wouldn’t be true. That meeting should have happened, but it didn’t. And therein lies a remarkable tale that happened two days before Yom Kippur in 1943.
It is one of those much re-peated lies about the events of the Holocaust that the world simply did not know what was happening to European Jewry by the time of the early 40s. Hit-ler had long since made clear his genocidal plans and there were sufficient eyewitness accounts of concentration camp atrocities and mass murders to verify the seriousness of his efforts. The unimaginable was a reality and it was no longer a secret. Yet the world turned a blind eye to Ho-locaust horrors. Tragically, the President of the United States, then revered by almost all Jews as a saintly figure, still chose not to intervene by word or by deed.
What was the Jewish com-munity in the United States to do? It is hard to put ourselves back into the psyche of a previ-
felt last week as I watched Prime Minister Netanyahu speaking at the United Nations. Netanyahu is surely no stranger to hostile receptions at the UN. But this time he was able to use the animus toward the Jewish state on the part of the overwhelming majority of member states to good use. At one point during his address to the General Assem-bly, he pointed out that only 70 years after the Holocaust, Iran was repeatedly threatening the Jewish state with annihilation. But “the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been ab-solutely nothing. Utter silence. Deafening silence.”
And then Netanyahu stood at the podium for what may have been the most agonizing 44 seconds in the history of such addresses at the UN. That truly deafening silence conveyed ev-erything we need to know about the international community and its indifference toward efforts to annihilate Israel.
He followed the silence by stating the obvious: “Perhaps you can now understand why Israel is not joining you in celebrating this deal. If Iran’s rulers were working to destroy your country, perhaps you’d be less enthusiastic about the deal.”
What good, you may ask, did it do for Netanyahu to remind an entire world body of lead-ers of their unrestrained and unchecked anti-Semitism? The
who were part of what is today known as the March of the Rab-bis would have simply accepted defeat without even a struggle, acquiescing to the slaughter of their people by their silence. How would they have been able to face the judgment of history as well as that of the heavenly court at the end of their days?
What we accomplished, my father told me, is that we did not forsake our role as spiritual leaders. We did not stand idly by at the blood of our brothers and sisters. We refused to remain indifferent to evil and the suffer-ing of our people. We were not tainted by the sin of passivity - a crime which can condemn a silent bystander with guilt comparable in some measure to the actual perpetrator.
Heroes, my father always stressed, don’t always need to be successful. All we can ask of them is to do everything in their power - and the rest is up to God.
So that’s how I judge all the efforts I’ve expended through-out the years on “lost causes.” And that’s how I feel as I think about how hard so many of us have tried to block the disastrous deal with Iran which guarantees the Iranians immediate billions for their sponsorship of global terror and guaranteed nuclear capability in the not-too-distant future.
Bibi’s deafening silenceThat too is precisely how I
Atlanta, it was important to me to be in touch with Chuck (if that was “dependency,” then so be it). My conversations with Chuck, sometimes lasting close to two hours, were an unusual mixture of therapy and friendship (as Chuck would say “we’ve broken all the
rules”). Chuck helped me through my children’s adoles-cence (for one remarkable pe-riod we had 5 teenagers in the house), and through various personal and professional chal-lenges. Because of his cancer he had to retire from Emory in 2007 and I imagine that I was his only regular “patient” over the past 8 years.
Chuck would give me up-
the answers nor did he present himself as a human being with-out struggles. He allowed me to ask him personal questions and they revealed a human being who deals honestly with his own issues. It was up to me, in part through my work with Chuck, to deal with my own.
A hallmark of ther-apy with Chuck was his willingness to try different approaches and to provide cli-ents with a variety of tools to help them-selves. It was then up to the client to decide which tools to incorporate into their life. Among the tools that Chuck and I worked on were psycho-drama, medi-tation, and muscle-relaxation. Chuck identified my strong writing abilities and writing became cru-cial in my therapy. He wasn’t afraid to give me homework, and he assigned me several books on rational thinking. A few months into my therapy, I asked that we close each ses-sion with a hug. And so we did. Chuck sensed that for various reasons I needed this hug from him, and as was typical of him, he was open to it.
In the 24 years since I left
By Teddy Weinberger
On August 17, my therapist, Dr. Charles (“Chuck”) Fred-erick Lawe, passed away in Atlanta at the age of 73. He was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in December 2002 and had battled it ever since. Chuck was my therapist when I was a graduate student at Emory University in the mid and late 1980’s. When I left Atlanta in 1991 with my wife and family, I continued to be in touch with Chuck. Along the way he became my friend but he always remained my therapist. I divide my life into BC and AC: Before Chuck and After Chuck.
Why was Chuck such a wonderful therapist? Because he was not interested in trac-ing the complete history and origins of the problems you presented to him—he was interested in how you can improve things in the here and now. Chuck worked with you to give you the tools to improve your well being.
That was a key to Chuck’s success: working with you—not just listening and inter-jecting the occasional “tell me more about that,” and certainly not dictating solutions to you, but working with you. That was very empowering. Chuck never pretended to have all
Campus Life Helen W. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award. I am extremely proud of the fact that I was instrumental in Chuck’s getting this recogni-tion. But what mattered to Chuck about the award? He told me: “What touched me most was not the award itself but that somewhere in the world there was someone who thought enough about me to do something like this.” That was Chuck. A real mensch. I loved him and I miss him.
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Dear Reader: I would not trouble you with my personal therapeutic record but for one important reason: I learned from Chuck that you actually can be helped in therapy, that it can make a tremendous differ-ence in your life. So if you have “issues” (and who doesn’t), get yourself to a good thera-pist, set some goals, and start working on them. How will you know if your therapist is appropriate for you? Because within a relatively short period of time you will be better and have made noticeable progress towards achieving your goals. If this doesn’t happen, don’t give up on therapy, but do get a new therapist.
Teddy Weinberger lives and writes from Israel.
dates about his illness and the various (often experimental) treatments he was undergoing at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute. He was sometimes in pain when we spoke but he was never down on life or angry at his cancer. One of Chuck’s mottos was “life doesn’t owe
me anything.” It is not considered gracious to have a sense of entitlement but most of us do. Chuck did not.
I was never un-der the illusion that my conversations wi th Chuck re-placed conventional therapy. Chuck al-ways told me “ev-ery therapy has a shelf life,” and a few years ago I was debating whether or not to return to therapy. Different issues had come up
in my life and I sensed that I needed some more therapy. But I also felt that going back into therapy might signal some kind of failure on my part. Chuck didn’t see it this way. He e-mailed me back saying that not getting therapy if I needed it would be the failure on my part.
In 2006 Chuck was awarded Emory University’s Office of
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In 1990, Teddy Weinberger found love and un-derstanding through meeting with his therapist, Dr. Chuck Lawe.
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Aviva Kempner’s ‘Rosenwald’considered a more important indicator of a batter’s worth.
Greenburg’s story is inter-twined with his unique position as a Jewish super-star in a sport dominated by non-Jews. The conflicts and challenges as-sociated with that dilemma are beautifully captured in Kem-per’s very successful film, which has grossed well over a million dollars, a remarkable feat for an independent documentary.
Kempner’s Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg chronicles the life of Gertrude Berg, one of the most powerful and successful women in show biz history. At one time the self-made Berg was America’s richest woman and second-most famous, sec-ond only to Eleanor Roosevelt. She owned and starred in a radio-TV series that remains among the longest-running shows in history.
Kemper’s film (which also grossed over a million dol-lars) is funny, fascinating and ultimately one of the great documentaries about a woman beating the odds to become a major figure in American cultural life.
She also made a short docu-mentary, Today I Voted for my Joey, about elderly Jews in south Florida going to the polls for Joe Lieberman in the 2000 presidential election. Lieber-man was Al Gore’s running mate in a contest where the Democrats won a majority of the nation’s votes. But George W. Bush became president in part with the help of confusing ballots that were distributed throughout Florida, especially in heavily Jewish neighbor-hoods in Miami.
dent editors at the University of Michigan Daily).
Kempner began her series on Jewish “heroes and hero-ines” with the riveting Parti-sans of Vilna documenting the legendary anti-Nazi uprising in the Lithuanian ghetto dur-ing World War II. The film is deeply moving and preserves a critical part of our heritage as a people that fought against impossible odds with tremen-dous power and impact.
Aviva’s Life and Times of Hank Greenburg is one of the great sports documentaries of all time, and certainly the leader among those about Jew-ish ballplayers.
A Detroit native, Kemper grew up with the legend of the great Tiger slugger. Hank was a lanky, hard-hitting first baseman, one of baseball’s all-time greatest hitters. He was on the brink of breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home runs in a single season when pitchers began refusing to give him anything to hit. Greenberg wound up with 58. But he always prided himself on his record-breaking totals for Runs Batted In, which he
By Harvey Wasserman
Aviva’ Kempner is Amer-ica’s leading f i lmmaker documenting Jewish life in America.
Her new film Rosenwald, now playing at the Gateway Theater, is the fifth in her unique and superb series.
This movie documents the life of Julius Rosenwald, long-time CEO of Sears Roebuck whose philanthropy has drasti-cally improved the entire black experience in this country. By contributing to the construc-tion of some 5300 African-American schools throughout the south, Rosenwald made possible countless important careers that have transformed the ability of blacks to live decent lives even in the most racist parts of the former Con-federacy.
Kemper’s film is power-ful, poignant and beautifully made. It’s not to be missed by anyone with pride in the heri-tage of Jewish philanthropy in America.
(By way of disclosure, I’ve known Aviva since the late 1960s, when we were both stu-
ally made a difference in this world.
Harvey Wasserman lives in Bexley and wrote SOLARTO-PIA! Our Green-Powered Earth.
and come out with a moving, educational film that’s fun to watch. Roswenwald is a terrific documentary about someone who still inspires great pride and affection, and who re-
Rosenwald presents us with the life of one of our nation’s greatest givers. Carnegie, Rockefeller and other super-rich Americans became known for the universities and librar-ies they endowed.
But Rosenwald dug into the grassroots, helping to coordi-nate and fund the construction of elementary schools in rural southern regions where blacks would otherwise have gotten no education at all. Many of the buildings were burned down by the Ku Klux Klan and other southern hate groups. The experience called to mind the treatment given Jews in anti-semitic regions through-out Europe during the pogroms and then the Nazi occupations.
The “Rosenwald Schools” gave opportunity to thousands of black children, many of whom went on to become America’s most powerful po-litical leaders, artists, scien-tists, doctors and more.
Through it all, Julius re-mained a humble, unassum-ing citizen. “Don’t be fooled by believing because a man is rich he’s smart,” he says. “There is ample evidence to the contrary.”
It’s typical of Kemper’s film-making to mix the pro-found with the humorous
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pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life. It isn’t an over-reach when Schenck notes parallels between increasing pro-gun extremism, rising gun violence and the Holocaust. As his father once told him, pointing to pictures of the camps, “This is what hap-pens when good people say nothing.”
East Jerusalem/West Je-rusalem, a documentary told in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles, will con-tinue DOC SUNDAY at the Drexel at 4:30 pm. The film follows singer/songwriter David Broza and his musi-cian friends over an eight-day period where they converge in a mash up of American, Israeli and Palestinian sounds. They build musical bridges with Broza’s charismatic and energetic performances and his will to have a political impact by the simple act of bring together artists from opposing sides.
Lady In Number 6 con-cludes DOC SUNDAY at 7 pm, this time with a location change to the JCC on College Avenue. The free short film follows 109-year-old pianist and music teacher, Alice Herz-Sommer, who, with clear-eyed coherence and relentlessly optimistic wit, speaks with quiet grace and an astound-ing absence of malice, about the importance of music and laughter in the aftermath of
her own painful loss. As a survivor of Nazi-occupied Prague during WWII, she holds onto her belief in the es-sential goodness of humanity. A Kristallnacht Commemora-tion discussion and dessert re-ception will follow the screen-ing, presented in partnership with The Jewish Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Colum-bus. Audiences are asked to reserve their free tickets in advance by contacting Sue Vail at [email protected] or 614-559-6212.
The festival continues on Nov. 10 with Little White Lie. Director Lacey Schwartz will join audiences at the screening at 7 pm at the Wexner Center for the Arts, to discuss how she explored questions of identity in her autobiographi-cal film. This is Schwartz’s own story of growing up in a loving Jewish household but with nagging doubts about her own origins. At age 18, after her parents’ abrupt split, Schwartz finally decides to confront her mother and learns the startling truth about her genesis. A dessert reception will follow the screening and the Q&A discussion with the director; presented in partner-ship with The Leventhal Art-ists Program, The Columbus Jewish Foundation, The Ohio State University’s Hillel, Film Studies Program and The Wexner Center for the Arts.
Two films will showcase at the Drexel Theatre on Nov 12, with a kosher boxed din-ner available for purchase (by pre-paid reservation) between the screenings. Apples From The Desert, a film told in He-brew with English subtitles, will begin at 6 pm. Apples From The Desert is an adap-tation of the award-winning Israeli play that explores the themes of love and reconcili-ation in the story of Rebecca Abravanel, an only child liv-ing a cloistered existence with her ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem. To Life!, a German film with English subtitles, will follow Apples from the Desert, at 8 pm at the Drexel. The story of redemp-tion follows Jonas, a young man on the run, as he arrives in Berlin just in time to save Ruth’s life.
The festival will conclude on Sunday, Nov. 15, with two films, God’s Slave at 5 pm and Dough at 8 pm, with a New York-style deli dinner between the screenings. Din-ner reservations are required by Nov. 7. God’s Slave, based on the actual events of a 1994 bombing in Buenos Aires, is a tense political thriller follow-ing Ahmed, a trained Islamic terrorist, and David, the de-termined, embittered Israeli Mossad agent who will stop at nothing to prevent the at-tack. Dough is a warmhearted
friend and secret Jewish girl-friend, Eyad learns the small yet crucial ways to assimilate into an antagonistic culture and distinguishes himself in the classroom by bringing his unique cultural perspective to the classroom.
DOC SUNDAY, an annual tradition of the festival, again takes place at the Drexel The-atre with four documentary features beginning with Look At Us Now, Mother, at 11:30 am. The screening will be fol-lowed by a discussion with Di-rector Gayle Kirschenbaum, who will answer questions about her moving, intimate, courageous yet humorous film examining the transforma-tion of a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship to that of acceptance and love.
The Armor of Light follows on DOC SUNDAY at 2:30 pm at the Drexel, with Abigail Disney’s directorial debut, which follows the journey of Evangelical minister, Rob Schenck, who finds the cour-age to preach about the toll of gun violence in America. Familiar with challenging the status quo (he was raised Jew-ish but became an evangeli-cal as a teenager), Schenck, an anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being
The 2015 Columbus Jewish Film Festival opens on Sun-day, Nov. 1 at 7 pm with Once in a Lifetime, a film based on the true story of Anne Gueg-uen, a French high school history teacher who changed the lives of her most troubled students through Holocaust education. The opening night presentation will take place at The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus located at 1125 College Ave. Tickets to the first film of the festival include a cel-ebratory dessert reception. On Monday, Nov. 2 at 7pm at the JCC, a just announced spe-cial “Pop-Up Movie”, Band of Bowlers, by Columbus native, Ryan Vesler, will be shown. Band of Bowlers is a short film about the I. M. Harris B’nai B’rith Bowling League that was formed almost 85 years ago and is one of the oldest leagues in Columbus. It’s a story about the diverse group of men, from countless numbers of occupations, 24 to 85 years of age, some of who have bowled together in this league continuously for more than 55 years. A des-sert reception will follow the movie. Tickets for Band of Bowlers are available online at www.columbusjcc.org.
The festival continues on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7 pm at the JCC on College Avenue with Above and Beyond. The film, set in 1948, tells the story of a ragtag band of Jewish American pilots who answered a call for help for Israel. In secret and at great personal risk, they smuggled planes out of the U.S., trained behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia and flew for Israel in its War of Indepen-dence. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Producer Nancy Spielberg and a dessert reception and is presented in partnership with Capital Post 122, Jewish War Veterans of the US, Beth Jacob Congregation and Congrega-tion Torat Emet.
The Drexel Theatre will host the screening of A Bor-rowed Identity on Wednes-day, Nov. 4 at 7 pm. The “based on a true story” theme of this year’s festival con-tinues with this adaptation of Sayed Kashua’s popular semi-autobiographical novel, Dancing Arabs. The film is a coming of age story set in an Israel resonant with con-temporary cultural unrest. Palestinian-Israeli boy Eyad is given the chance to attend a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. With the assistance of his loyal best
at the JCCJewish Film Festival offers wide variety of films and speakers
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By Jackie Jacobs
Picture yourself in an exotic location. You are finally on the long-awaited retirement trip with your spouse.
The telephone rings. It is three o’clock in the morning. Startled from you sleep, your mind immediately races with dread. Who could be calling at this hour? “Did our son have an accident? Is my sister in trouble? Is a neighbor calling to say our house is on fire? Has a loved one died?”
You answer the phone as if in slow-motion.
It is nothing you feared, to your relief. It is your property manager calling, the person you pay to take care of your rental house, calling to inform you that a water pipe broke. The tenants had to be evacu-ated. He asks you what to do, and you are unprepared.
The truth is that you are not fully retired. You still have this income property’s manager to supervise.
This property served you well during your working years. It provided a nice tax shelter and a steady income. Now, the income has increased a bit but the tax benefits are nearly exhausted and repairs
are on the horizon. Each prob-lem comes with a financial im-plication, and you contemplate your options.
The obvious first choice is to sell the property. However, there will be a significant tax bill due at sale, a result of the
accelerated depreciation you claimed and market appre-ciation over the years. Or you could exchange the property tax-free for another property, though that only delays dealing with the problem, or...
Another possibility might be to give the property to heirs, but isn’t that just transferring your problems to them?
All these options give you a
headache, even as you hoped retirement would bring free-dom from thorny financial de-cisions. Yet it may be possible to eliminate the large tax bill and simultaneously avoid the other problems.
Consider making a transfor-mational gift to benefit your favorite charities using that rental house while retaining the income it delivers. If correctly coordinated, this gift might also increase retirement income because it can help to delay the start of qualified plan payouts (so those funds can continue their tax-deferred growth).
Be aware there are issues unique to income-producing real estate that must first be resolved in order to make the gift work. To learn more about how this might solve several of your problems at once, call your charitable advisor or give me a buzz at 614-338-2365.
It might mean that your rental house can work harder for you in retirement – instead of you working hard for it.
Jackie Jacobs is the Chief Executive Officer of the Co-lumbus Jewish Foundation, the Central Ohio Jewish com-munity’s planned giving and endowment headquarters.
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On Sunday, Nov. 22, SEC Network’s Paul Finebaum and Dave Revsine, studio host of the Big Ten Network will debate/discuss “Whose Conference is Better – the SEC or Big Ten?” The event, including a pre-event tail-gate, will be held at the Greater Columbus JCC, 1125 College Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43209 at 6:00 pm.
Paul Finebaum is known as the “Mouth of the South.” He is the host of The Paul Fine-baum Show heard nationally on Sirius Radio and televised on SEC Network. Love him or hate him, his opinions mat-ter, influencing SEC football programs and fans alike. In his New York Times bestsell-ing book, My Conference Can Beat Your Conference, Paul Finebaum chronicles the rise of the SEC and it’s path to college football fame.
Dave Revsine is a nation-ally known sportscaster, sports columnist and jour-nalist who serves as the lead studio host for the Big
Ten Network. He has been with the Big Ten Network since its inception in 2007 and where he has hosted the
network’s pregame, halftime and postgame coverage for men’s football and basket-ball. He is also the author of the New York Times best
seller, The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation, where he tells the riveting story of the
formative period of Ameri-can football.
The “My Conference Is Better Than Your Confer-ence” event will be mod-erated by the IMG Sports Network “Voice of the Buck-eyes” Paul Keels. The de-bate/discussion panel will include Tim May, sports reporter at the Columbus Dispatch; Alex Fisher, CEO of the Columbus Partnership and former Deputy Governor of the State of Tennessee, and Steve Herz, President and Founding Partner of the New York City based IF Management Group.
Sponsorships for the event are available. For informa-tion about reserved seating and pre-event tailgate buf-fet as well as for individual tickets, call Michael Broidy at 614-449-4200 or email at [email protected].
ficking Committee member, Gigi Fried, states, “We take to heart our history as slaves in Egypt and our belief that no one should be exploited. NCJW supports efforts to expose and address human trafficking in the US — with a focus on women and children through public education, ad-vocacy and public awareness programs such as this 5K.”
Anyone interested in learning more about NCJW Columbus Sections’ Anti-Human Trafficking initiatives is urged to contact Marcie Golden, Committee Chair at [email protected]. Members of NCJW invite everyone to participate in this 5k walk/run in scenic down-town Gahanna on Oct. 25th. And don’t worry about speed, Committee co-Chair Marcie Golden said, “I came in last place last year, and still had a great time for a great cause!”
To participate in the race at a discounted rate with NCJW, email [email protected]
To be a timed participant, reg-ister at https://premierraces.com/upcoming-events-calendar/373-fit-for-freedom-5k-2015
NCJW Columbus Section is a Gold Sponsor of the Sec-ond Annual Fit for Freedom 5k Run/Walk to stop human trafficking. This year’s event will take place at Creekside, Gahanna on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 1:00 p.m This event is for individuals as well as families (Kids Dash begins at 12:30).
The Fit for Freedom event is organized by the Central Ohio Rescue and Restore Coalition (CORRC). The proceeds from the race will benefit human trafficking awareness and vic-tim support. NCJW Columbus is one of a network of over 100 organizations working together in Central Ohio to end human trafficking.
Margey Cheses, Co-Chair of the Columbus Section’s ini-tiative to stop human traffick-ing says, “National Council of Jewish Women is committed to Fighting Human Traffick-ing. Human Trafficking is a disturbing reality at home in the United States and here in central Ohio. It is modern-day slavery — and it’s growing. Today, there are more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.”
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NCJW to sponsor 5K walk to stop human trafficking
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Gorgeous weather and a new venue set the scene for The 6th Annual Play Fore Melissa’s House Golf, Tennis and Game Day outing on Aug. 24. A record number of golfers and gamers participated for the first time at Columbus Country Club. A record ammount was raised for the Melissa’s House project, to help create more comfortable, nurturing environments for adults living with mental illness. In Central Ohio there are more than 1700 adults with mental
illness living in existing group homes and residences. Often the funding is not available to create the type of environment that can help promote recovery. Melissa’s House is doing new work with Columbus housing projects giving grants to renovate current facilities for adults with mental illness and improving their surroundings.The event also marked the debut of Melissa’s House’s new video.
Participating in this worthwhile fundraiser are commu-nity members (far l., l. to r.): Melissa’s House co-chair Jeff Knupp, founders Elaine and Nate Goldberg and co-chair Billy Goldberg; Julie Fishman, Howard Pirwitz, Scott Friedman, Hannah Pirwitz, Kiersten Mathews, Elaine Goldberg, Ron-nie Rudolph; Margie Goldach, Jeannie Schottenstein, Molly Rubin and Susie Warsaw.
SEC or Big 10 ‘Which is better’ discussion planned
On Friday, Oct. 2nd, Temple Israel hosted its second annual Pride Shabbat event which was attended by over 500 Temple Israel congregants, community members, allies and friends. The Illuminati Sacred Music Ensemble of the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus shared their beautiful music. Attendees for the evening were welcomed by hosts Jody and Jeff Schei-man, who along with clergy Rabbi Misha Zinkow, Cantor Bat-Ami Moses and Rabbi Sharon Mars, invited everyone with the words “Tivu! Come in!” to make Temple Israel a Sukkat Shalom– a dwelling place of peace. After a joyous and song-filled Kabbalat Shabbat evening service, guests enjoyed Shabbat dinner and Pride celebration together.
Temple Israel hosts Pride Shabbat
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Columbus Torah Academy will hold its annual gala to benefit the Scholarship Fund on Sunday, Dec. 15. This year, for the first time, the event will be held at the school, located at 181 Noe Bixby Road.
Renovations of the school have taken place over the past three summers resulting in a revitalized learning environ-ment in the classrooms as well as enhanced technology offer-ings. The gala will provide an opportunity for guests to see first hand, the many improve-ments in the building.
The event will feature din-ner stations throughout the building and opportunities to tour . A formal program after dinner will highlight accom-plishments of the school and also honor Rabbi Henoch and Dr. Rochelle L. Millen for their work in education, both at CTA and in the larger community.
Invitations are forthcoming, but to confirm receipt of an invitation or for more informa-tion about the event, contact [email protected] or 614-864-0299, ext 218.
CTA Scholorship Gala to be held at school
Holocaust survivors face a unique set of challenges which compound the aging process. Professionals, caregivers and family members who serve them and love them can become more proficient providers and communicators by attaining spe-cial awareness, sensitivity and
competence. Thanks to a grant from the Columbus Jewish Fed-eration, Jewish Family Services will be offering a free seminar on Oct. 29, from 9am to 12pm at the agency’s office in the Ebner Building, 1080 College Avenue. Advance registration is required.
The seminar will be presented by Jenni Frumer, a nationally recognized expert in aging and
end of life care for Survivors. She is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Alpert Jewish Family & Children’s Service (AJFCS).
This skills building training will include:
- A brief overview of the his-tory and impact of the Holocaust
- Myths and symbolism re-lated to working with Survivors of Nazi Persecution
- Issues and challenges in pro-viding effective healthcare and psychosocial services to aging survivors with Alzheimer’s and related disorders
- Examples of potential “trig-gers” for Survivors, specifically in healthcare environments
- Techniques and best prac-tices for working effectively with victims of Nazi trauma.
Agency administrators and healthcare providers are also welcome to attend. Registra-tion for the training begins at 8:30am. Light refreshments will be provided. This program is approved for Continuing Educa-tion Credits by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, Mar-riage & Family Therapist Board.
For more information about the training or to register for the seminar, contact Carol Shkolnik at [email protected] or 614-559-0108.
Creekside at the Village received a perfect score on its most recent annual inspection by the Ohio Department of Health.
Each year, state surveyors evaluate assisted living facili-ties to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations. Creekside at the Village is assessed because it is a com-bined assisted and indepen-dent living community. This year, state surveyors found Creekside to be 100 percent deficiency free.
“The result of this year’s survey validates the hard work of the associates and
the genuine passion, commit-ment and caring they bring with them every day,” Creek-side at the Village Director Amanda Rossbach said. “We are always looking for ways to improve on the quality en-vironment we offer residents. This just confirms we are on the right track.”
Wexner Heritage Village’s Zusman Hospice also had a deficiency free Ohio Depart-ment of Health survey in 2015.
For more information about assisted and independent living at Creekside at the Vil-lage, call 614-384-2271 or online at whv.org.
Creekside earns perfect score on inspection
JFS to offer training for survivor caregivers
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Jewish day school is a gift. One that will give your child a strong Jewish identity and value system. One that will instill our shared language, our rituals and our history. One that will spark a love of Israel from day one. Coupled with a top-notch academic curriculum, a day school education creates a community of learners and leaders. You owe it to your children to come and learn more about Jewish day school education.
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A recent gift by long-time Wexner Heritage Village bene-factor and community philan-thropist, Geraldine Schotten-stein, will ensure more people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia have the opportunity to live as inde-pendently, and with as much dignity, as possible.
Schottenstein’s gift to Wex-enr Heritage Village will offset the lion’s share of the cost of building the recently opened addition to WHV’s memory care assisted living commu-nity. In recognition and ap-preciation of her contribution, the residence has been renamed The Geraldine Schottenstein Cottage.
“We are completely honored to make this name change in recognition of this most recent gift,” WHV President and CEO David Rosen said. “The generosity of the Schottenstein family, particularly Geraldine, toward Wexner Heritage Vil-lage goes back a long time. Their consistent support shows how deeply they believe fulfill-ing the charge to honor our mothers and fathers has in maintaining the overall health of our entire community.”
The Cottage originally opened in 2011 with 10 private suites. It was full within weeks of opening and has maintained a waiting list ever since. Last month, residents began mov-ing into a recently completed, eight-room expansion of the residence and it, too, is nearly full.
“We knew there was an unfulfilled need in the com-munity and we have been able to accommodate a number of people from our waiting list,” Director Amanda Rossbach said. “But the speed with which these rooms were claimed was a pleasant surprise. I think is
says a lot about the quality of our program, staff and environ-ment we create.”
In addition to eight private rooms, each with its own bath-room, the expansion includes a second dining room, a green-house, and bright, open com-mon spaces. In addition, one of the new suites will be large enough to accommodate two people, should the need arise.
“Families are really looking forward to having a place like this, specifically designed to serve dementia patients, for their loved ones,” Rossbach said. “They want to know their mother or father or grand-mother or grandfather or aunt or uncle is being cared for the way they would do it if they could. We give them that.”
The Cottage gives residents a family-style atmosphere that respects their individuality and personal preferences. Common spaces are warm and inviting and include a library, activity rooms, a secure outdoor patio, and dining rooms where meals are served family-style. Daily programming at The Cot-tage is designed to promote the highest possible quality of life; foster independence; support each resident’s social, emotional and spiritual health; and embrace each individual’s personal history, experiences and interests.
“We’ve done our very best to make the environment throughout The Cottage warm and welcoming,” Rossbach said. “We want our residents to think of this place as their home, not an institution, so we put a lot of thought into the details. It’s funny; every guest who has toured the space finds something they say would fit perfectly into their own home.”
In addition to the Schot-tenstein family’s financial
WHV honors benefactor with naming of The Geraldine Schottenstein Cottagesupport, The Cottage has been made possible by grants from the Community Grants and the Frank Forchheimer, Moritz
Mayer and Robert A. Glick funds of the Columbus Jewish Foundation.
For more information about The Cottage, contact the leas-ing office by phone at 614-384-2271 or by email at thecot-
[email protected]. Additional in-formation, including a virtual tour, can also be found online at whv.org.
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BATESJonathan Bates, son of Deb-
orah and Steven Bates of Canal Winchester, will be called to the Torah for his First Aliyah on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 10:00 a.m., at Temple Beth Shalom to read from Parshat Noach. Jonathan is brother to Leah,
Abigail, and Sarah, and is the grandson of Daniel and Ann Lang, and Judith Bates and the late Don Richard Bates. A 7th grade student at Canal Winchester Middle School, Jonathan plays on a traveling soccer team. Jonathan studied for his Bar Mitzvah with Rabbi Benjy Bar-Lev and Brett Weis-man. For his Mitzvah project, he volunteers at Pets With-out Parents, a no-kill animal shelter.
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and Michelle Beckman, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah at Temple Israel on Saturday, Oct. 17. He is the grandson of Charlotte and the late Phillip Beckman, Wendy and Jim Schreiber and the late Norman Silverman. He is the
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STAHLEthan Stahl, son of Karen
and Kevin Stahl of New Al-bany, will be called to the Torah on Saturday, Oct. 10, at 10:00 a.m., at Temple Beth Shalom, for his First Aliyah. He will be reading from Para-shat Beresheet from the Book of Genesis. He is older brother to Eliana, and grandson of
Peter G. and Diane Stahl, and Thomas and Ellen Hitch. Ethan is a student of Temple Beth Shalom’s Kehillat Torah Religious School. Ethan will be starting the Madrichim-in-Training program at the Tem-ple this year, and is excited to help other students learn about Judaism. Ethan was tutored for his Bar Mitzvah by Cantor Gail Rose. As a 7th grade student at New Albany Middle School, Ethan enjoys playing offensive guard on the 7th grade football team and the clarinet in the band.
brother of Nicole Beckman. Ethan is a 7th grader at Bex-ley Middle School and is a member of the Bexley Middle School football team. Ethan loves animals and donates half his weekly allowance to the ASPCA.
HANDMAKERSamantha Nicole Hand-
maker, daughter of Alisa and Brett Handmaker of New Al-bany, was called to the Torah on Saturday, Oct. 3, at Temple Beth Shalom for her First Ali-yah. Samantha, whose Hebrew name is Chava B. Baruch v-Avigail Marta, will read from a special Torah portion for Suk-kot. She is the sister of Morgan and Jessica, and is the grand-daughter of Robert and Marsha Weiss, and Sandi and Charles Kaminsky. A student at Temple Beth Shalom’s Kehillat Torah Religious School, Samantha was tutored by Rabbi Benjy Bar-Lev and Brett Weisman. An 8th grade student at New Albany Middle School, Sa-
mantha enjoys soccer, music, shopping, Camp Livingston, and BBYO. For her mitzvah project, she is raising funds for “Soccer for Peace,” a non-profit organization that gives children from war-torn nations an opportunity to play soccer.
SCHOTTENSTEINLibby Morgan Schotten-
stein, daughter of Rhonda and Steven Schottenstein, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 31. Libby is in the 7th grade at Bexley Middle School. She enjoys field hockey, skiing, and spending time with family and friends.
Eran Rosenberg helped Lib-by prepare for her special day.
Libby is the sister of Ashley, Abby, Jacob and Remy. She is the granddaughter of Frankie and the late Irving Schotten-stein and Jolene and Bernie Shapiro and the late Marshall Lashen.
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bOwlingNutis rolls a 739 series in BB Men’s league
By Randy Cuenot and Jeff Rycus
On Sept. 27, Ira Nutis, team patriarch, sponsor, team cap-tain and anchor bowler for Nutis Press, crafted a huge 739 series to take the 2015-2016 B’nai B’rith bowling season’s top spot on the series leader board with games of 236, 248 and 255. Nutis crashed the hardwood opening with a four-bagger and a total of seven strikes in game one, ran eight strikes in a row and nine total in game two, and closed with another nine strikes in game three. He rattled the pins for a total of twenty-five strikes and finished the morning with a 207.78 average. Last season Nutis managed a 210.41 aver-age, trailing only Joel Schwartz and Jeff Rycus.
For the morning, Nutis’ 739 was followed by Ryan Vesler, 683, Jeff Rycus, 635, and Jeff Wasserstrom, 634. There was the stand alone 700, six 600s, and another nineteen 500s. Nutis and Vesler tied with matching 255s for the top spot, with Nutis then hitting on a 248, and Vesler following with a 246. There were a total of twenty-seven 200 games.
In game competition, Vol-unteers for Israel defeated Digico Imaging, 20-12. Paul Weinstock, turning his game up a few notches, was consistently above last year’s average of 158 with games of 176, 190 and 180. His 546 series won four points. Weinstock con-tributed significantly to VFI winning game three, 874-868, and totals, 2,574-2,563, in what was an otherwise very close match. Todd Banchefsky and Stewart Brownstein took three points apiece, with Brownstein opening with a 221, and clos-ing with a 233.
Team Byer crushed Co-lumbus Oncology Associates, 21½-10½. Howard Byer and Keith Golden blanked their shadows, 4-0. Byer provided a tutorial on how to pick up the very difficult, 7-9, back row split. In a battle of the rookie bowlers, David Stone, for the Associates, and a bit more seasoned, took Ned Konin, three points to one. Nick Delp grabbed three and one-half points for the Oncologists.
Integrated Financial Servic-es had it their way with the Law Office of Joel Schwartz, 23-9. For IFS, Marc Gutter, bowling in the lead-off position, was a model of consistency, rolling a 151, 151 and 146, and taking four points. He also covered the 3-6-7-10 split. Adding three
points apiece were Sam Shaffer and Ken Kerstein. For the Law Office, Eric Feinberg tossed a team high 215 and took three points. Schwartz removed the 3-10 split.
Blocks Bagels flattened So-kol Insurance, 22-10. In the middle of the line-up, Sasha Libin, with back-to-back 212 games, and Joel Greff, rolled four point shut-outs. For Sokol,
Joe Roberts and Jeff Haberman could only submit three-point claims. Steve Handler picked up the 3-10 split.
Homage dismantled JAW Enterprises, 20-12. After losing seven points in game one by a pin differential of 852-777, Ryan Vesler took matters into his own hands by firing games of 246 and 255 while running seven strikes in a row between the second and ninth frames of game two and opening with another seven consecutive Xs in game three. He punctuated his streak by striking out in the tenth frame. Vesler and Brian Miller took three points apiece. Homage introduced first-time sub, and no stranger to the Jewish community, Gordon Hecker, who improved each game, and won one point. For the JAW-breakers, Dan Roth-schild and Tim Leisure had three point efforts. But, Jeff Wasserstrom’s workmanlike 634 series was not enough to hold off Homage.
Nutis Press printed out a big win over H W Slutsky, CPA, 24-8, and won total pins, 2,694-2,447. Ira Nutis’ 739 series, coupled with son, Joey’s, 588 series, took four points each. Steve Rosenthal complement-ed the effort with a 234 final game and added another three points. He also took out the 5-7 split. For the Accountants, Ron Feerer, won three points and Howard Slutsky had a respect-able 608 series with games of 209 and 210.
The Introverts opened-up with a win over Team Holiday Lanes, 22-10. Jeff Rycus re-turned to form with games of
222, 200 and 213, and a 635 se-ries. His not-so-shy teammates, Artie Isaac and Rick Vesler, had matching hat tricks, win-ning three points apiece. For Holiday, Paul Roth took three points, working his back-up ball for a near season high, 191 game. Jonathan Beck took one point with a 222 game.
On Oct. 4, Randy Cuenot led the league with a 653 series on the back of games of 211, 255 and 187. Joel Schwartz was next up with a 636, followed by Stewart Brownstein with a 620. There were a total of six 600 series and another twenty-three 500s. High game honors went to Cuenot with a 255, Eric Feinberg with a 243 and Jeff Rycus with a 235. There were twenty-eight 200 games.
In game competition, the Law Office of Joel Schwartz steamrolled Sokol Insurance, 29-3, winning total pins, 2,620-2,400. “Steamroller” Schwartz, with games of 221, 201, and 214, rolled out a 636 series and a four point shut-out. Eric Feinberg, with a 243 team high game, and a supporting 610 se-ries, added three points. Not to be outdone, the “Do-Ron-Ron” boys, Ron Rycus, borrowed from the Greater Lansing B’nai B’rith Bowling League, and Ron Weisman, added a chorus of three point efforts. In game two, Schwartz finessed the 4-9 split, and Feinberg did him one better, removing the bit more distant 4-10 split.
JAW Enterprises beat Blocks Bagels, 22½-9½. Dan Roth-schild threw a shut-out, 4-0, with a high game of 183 for the morning. Maurice Caplan added 3½ points. For Blocks, Corey Carson pitched a 198 high game, and 558 series, winning three points.
Nutis Press submerged Vol-unteers for Israel, 21-11. It start-ed out as a closely contested match with Team Nutis winning game one, 813-802, and VFI winning game two 885-870. VFI was in the driver’s seat by just four pins heading into the last turn. But Team Nutis cranked up the presses to win game three, 915-814, and the match going away, 2,598-2,501. Jacob Karmia, lead-off bowler, tossed a 161, 151 and 165, for a 477 series, the best of his young career, for four points, matching Steve Rosenthal’s four points. For VFI, Paul Weinstock’s four points and Randy Cuenot’s league-leading 653 series were not enough. Split-makers were Karmia, 2-7, Weinstock, 2-7-8 and Cuenot, 3-10.
Team Byer drove home a win over Digico Imaging, 20½-11½. Keith Golden, with a
match-high 226 game, coupled with Shelly Sinai’s 602 series, led the charge with seven and one-half points. Golden deftly removed the 6-10 pin split. For Digico, Stewart Brownstein rolled a 620 series with games of 222, 201 and 197. He left the house rolling at a 202.5 clip. Howard Levy tossed in a 224 game.
The Introverts quietly beat Columbus Oncology Associ-ates, 20-12. In a match that saw each individual competi-tion scoring out 3-1, with Rick Vesler and Jeff Rycus taking three points apiece for The Introverts, and David Stone and Scott Blair matching up with their three pointers for the Oncology Associates, it was Harry “St. Louis” Bernard’s handicapped 690 series that neutralized David Stone’s 714 handicapped series, to keep the match within reach. Stone rolled a 203, 159 and a 190 game, for a season high 552 series. Jeff Rycus had a match high 235 game. Blair covered the 3-10 split.
Integrated Financial Sys-tems saw their stock increase with a win over Holiday Lanes, 22-10. IFS, after los-ing game one, 861-802, rallied to win games two, 850-757, and three, 906-849, and totals, 2,558-2,467. Marc Gutter and Sam Shaffer, from the top of the order, threw four point shut-outs. Ken Kerstein, for IFS, and Jonathan Beck for Holiday, split points, 2-2, and split splits, with Kerstein removing the 2-7-8 and Beck covering the 2-7.
Homage went on a rampage over H W Slutsky, CPA, 25-7. Fielding a nearly all-rookie team, Jeremy Diamond rolled personal highs of a 217 game and a 522 series for four points. Brian Miller added a 221 game and team leading 583 series, while splitting points, to go along with Bret Rosenstein’s two points. Third year veteran, Ryan Vesler, opened with a 224 team high game. For the Accountants, Howard Slutsky was consistent with games of 197, 210 and 190 for a 597 series and three points. Marc Ankerman picked up the 4-9 split. Team Homage finished the morning holding onto their first place lead for the second week in a row.
Randy Cuenot and Jeff Rycus are vice president and secretary, respectively, and co-chairs of public relations and communications for the I. M. Harris B’nai B’rith Bowl-ing Association. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].
Dorothy GarsonHadassahBowling League
Thursday, Oct. 1
Lisa Kerstein bowled high game of 136 and Beth Dolinger bowled high series of 350. Won LostMavens 11 5Latkes 8-1/2 7 - 1 / 24Mishd 7-1/2 8 - 1 / 2Balabosta 5 11Honors: Beth Dolinger 126-350; LisaKerstein136
By Randy Cuenot and Jeff Rycus
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Joel Schwartz and Jeff Rycus, bowling for Team Arrrrgggh-hh!!, blasted bookend 700s in the Men’s Service Club League at Sequoia Pro Bowl. Schwartz, bowling at the top of the five man line-up, rolled a 223, 226 and 269 for a 718 se-ries. Also known as “Mr. Tenth Frame,” Schwartz has a knack for throwing strikes in the last frame. This night, he was per-fect, rolling nine consecutive strikes in the all-critical tenth frame. He finished the night with a 212 average.
Rycus, team captain and bowling in the anchor posi-tion, was just five pins behind Schwartz, with a 713 series and games of 232, 268 and 213. Known as the “King of Strike” and certainly no stranger to striking out in the last frame, Rycus prefers to have the ball in his hands when the game and the match are on the line. Anytime Rycus
begins a game running strikes, his teammates anticipate him finishing with yet another perfect game, having already had two league 300 games in his career. Rycus left the lanes with a 215 average.
Last season Team Arrrrgggh-hh!! reached the championship finals, but lost in the rubber match. With Schwartz and Rycus bowling with a bit of a swagger, Team Arrrrggghhh!! is pressing on to win the cham-pionship this year.
Team Arrrrggghhh!!, enter-ing its eighth year of competi-tion in the Men’s Service Club League, consists of a subgroup of B’nai B’rith bowlers, which also includes Stewart Brown-stein, Ryan Vesler and Randy Cuenot.
Randy Cuenot and Jeff Rycus are vice president and secretary, respectively, and co-chairs of public relations and communications for the I. M. Harris B’nai B’rith Bowl-ing Association. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].
Jeff and Joe blast pair of bookend 700s
Jeff Rycus and Joel Schwartz
Men’s Bowling AssnSept. 27 & Oct 4
weeks 3 & 4
Oct. 4 standingsTeam Won Lost Pct. Pts. BehindHomage 98 30 76.6 -TheIntroverts 89.5 38.5 69.9 8.5JAWEnterprises 80.5 47.5 62.9 17.5TeamByer 73 55 57.0 25LawOfficeofJoelSchwartz 72.5 55.5 56.6 25.5VolunteersforIsrael 70 58 54.7 28NutisPress 68 60 53.1 30Digico 59.5 68.5 46.5 38.5IntegratedFinancialSystems 59 69 46.1 39BlocksBagels 56.5 71.5 44.1 41.5HolidayLanes 52 76 40.6 46HWSlutskyCPAInc 45 83 35.2 53SokolInsurance 37 91 28.1 61ColumbusOncologyAssociates35.5 92.5 27.7 62.5 Sept. 27 Honor Roll:IraNutis739(236,248,255),RyanVesler683(182,246,255),JeffRycus635(222,200,213),JeffWasserstrom634(212,222,200),RandyCuenot623(205,194,224),HowardSlutsky608(209,210,189),StewartBrownstein603(221,149,233),SashaLibin593(212,212),KenKerstein592(218,204),JoeyNutis588(204),JonathanBeck583(222),SteveRosenthal575(234),JoelSchwartz572(208),NickDelp558(215),JeffHaberman550,MarcCarroll548,EricFeinberg547(215),PaulWeinstock546,JoelGreff535,HowardByer526,RickVesler525,BrianMiller519,ShellySinai512,BradGoldman506,KeithGolden501,TimLeisure500Oct. 4 Honor Roll:RandyCuenot653(211,255,187),JoelSchwartz636(221,201,214),StewartBrownstein620(222,201,197),IraNutis611(177,203,231),EricFeinberg610(177,190,243),ShellySinai602(187,215,200),JeffRycus591(235,202),HowardSlutsky597(210),BrianMiller583(221),RyanVesler582(224),RonRycus573(216),MarcAnkerman573(210),CoreyCarson558,DavidStone552(203),SamShaffer551(215),KenKerstein548(225),JeffWasserstrom544(208),JonathanBeck536(203),HowardLevy530(224),KeithGolden528(226),JeremyDiamond522(217),SashaLibin517(208),RickVesler517,MauriceCaplan516,NickDelp516,DanRothschild512,ACStrip510,SteveRosenthal508,BradGoldman503
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Friday, October 16: Candle-lighting at 6:32 pm.
Saturday, October 17: Torah portion is Noach. Morning Ser-vices in the Main Sanctuary at 9 am; Weekly Torah Study with Rabbi Woodward in the Katz Chapel at 9:30 am; Babysitting (Ages 2-6) in the Nursery at 10 am; YPS and Jr. Congregation in the Pit at 10:30 am; Boker Tov Shabbat in the Chapel at 11:30 am.
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Tuesday, October 20: He-brew School - Broad Street, at 4 pm.
Wednesday, October 21: Sisterhood Study Circle (Fall Semester) in the Board Room at 9:30 am; Sisterhood Short Story Class (Fall Semester) in the Library at 10:30 am; Hebrew School – Satellite, at 4 pm.
Thursday, October 22: Bok-er Tov Playgroup in the Atrium at 10 am; Teachers Staff Meet-ing at 4 pm.Yahrzeits observed Friday,October 16: Oscar Berkowitz, Leopold Fox, Nathan Bartel, Irvin A. Cohen, Sarah Stone Kastan, Ruth Bresler, Myer Schecter, Kate Goldsmith, Jack Schilling, Anna Rudner, Marvin Bryan, Samuel Furman, Robert Masser, William Kauffman, Bertha Lieberman, Edward Berger, Dr. Sidney Tyroler, Abe Braun, Eva Resnik, Miriam Adelman, Lucille Grossman, Jodi Oppenheimer Slutsky, Max Mark, Leon Mendel, Hyman Stone, George Hoffman, Leo Steiner, Adolph Goldenberg, Morris Beim, Paul F. Sarver, Emmy Gross, James Longenbaker, Bert Silverstein, Samuel Blumstein, Molly Schwartz, Birdie Mayper, Rachel Fleisher, Abraham Horowitz, Joseph Volovetz, Aaron Grossman, Moisey Weisberg, Lawrence Robinson, Genya Elkind, Bertha Kast, Marshall Harris, Rose Martlin, Marvin H. Merrick, Rhona Zager, Sam Rosenthal, Joseph I. Wasserstrom, Goldie Mun-ster, Bertha Rofsky, Joseph Slaven, Bessie Frad, Shirley Pearlman, Helen Marie Carmen, Elaine Solomon, Leonore Kornfeld, Gertrude Grob, Eva Jaffe, Cyril Goldston, Charles Moskovitz, Edith Bleiweiss, Sara Recht, Samuel David Bloch, Jack Kahn.
Friday, October 23: “Re-lational Judaism” Class in the Board Room at 8:15 am; Shabbat Services in the Cha-pel at 5:30 pm; Challah Back Children’s Service in the Sanc-tuary at 6 pm; Candlelighting at 6:22 pm.
Saturday, October 24: Torah portion is Lech Lecha. Phoebe Wasserstrom, daughter of Eric and Jennifer Wasserstrom, will be called the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah. 614 Shabbat. Morn-ing Service in the Main Sanc-tuary at 9 am; Weekly Torah Study with Rabbi Woodward in the Katz Chapel at 9:30 am; Babysitting (Ages 2-6) in the Nursery at 10 am; YPS and Jr. Congregation in the Pit at 10:30 am.
Sunday, October 25: He-brew School at 9 am; Hebrew High School and Breakfast at 9:30 am.
Tuesday, October 27: He-brew School – Broad Street, at 4 pm; Board of Trustees Dinner and Meeting in the Up-per Social Hall at 7 pm.
Wednesday, October 28: Sisterhood Study Circle (Fall Semester) in the Board Room at 9:30 am; Sisterhood Short Story Class (Fall Semester)
in the Library at 10:30 am; Hebrew School – Satellite, at 4 pm.
Thursday, October 29: Bok-er Tov Playgroup in the Atrium at 10 am.Yahrzeits observed Friday, October 23: Molly Wasserstrom Weinfeld, Pearl Berkowitz, Morton Kiefer, Ida Furman, Ruth Robinson, Barnum McDow, Morris Westerman, Max Parish, Minnie Lavine, Celia Brown, Maryon (Mickey) Margu-lis, Carolyn Kohen, Gertrude Curphey, Bessie Baker, Bernard Gordon, Morris Katz, Daniel Tal-lan, Frances Hackman, Sam Berkowitz, Herbert Myron Keller, Sadie Hirsch, Max Fromm, Dr. Donald Steinberg, Joel E. Ehrlich, Dr. Harold Epstein, Howard Narotsky, Irving Selzer Rudolf, Rosalie Stone, Ruth Steiner, David Spitzer, Mary Schneiderman, Marvin Feinstein, Joseph Her-man, Doris Wasserstrom Kaplan, Anna Wander, Dr. Harold Lewis Brown, Arnold Spolter, Mildred Feinstein, Irving “Bud” Brownstein, Julia Wasserstrom, Virginia Klein Tennenbaum, Morton Frager, Amalia Weinberger, Lillian Fox, Sandy Olander, Harvey Cooper, Gerald Steinberg, Betty Stone Schottenstein, Sidonia Marowitz, James Cornette, Shirley Labelle, Elias Derrow, Oscar Berman, Jenny Levi, Robin Carrie Weiss, Morris Rubinstein, Harry Klynn, Moisey Zuravel, Dr. Bernard D. Garliner, Dr. William Garner, Riva Zuravel, Hilda Stern, Bea Schwartz, Marvin Cohen.
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Daily Shacharit, Monday through Thursday at 7 am.
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Saturday, October 17: Shab-bat Morning Services at 9:30 am; Women’s Torah Study at 10 am; CKids – Chabad Kids Club (ages 5-12) at 10:45 am; Tot Shabbot (ages 2 through 5) at 11 am; Kiddush Luncheon at 12 pm.
Sunday, October 18: Sunday Morning Minyon, 9:45 am.
Tuesday, October 20: Yoga Class at 4:30 pm.
Wednesday, October 21: Morning Minyan at 7 am.
Thursday, October 22: Par-sha Class, Journey into the Soul of Torah, at 7:30 pm,
at 5:10 pm; Afternoon Shiur at 5:40 pm; Mincha at 6:10 pm; Ma’ariv at 7:22 pm.
Morning Services for the week of October 25: Sun-day at 8:15 am; Monday and Thursday at 6:40 am; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:45 am.
Evening services for the week of October 25 are at 6:25 pm.
Daily Talmud Class, taught by Rabbi David Ginsburg, is held Sunday through Friday following Shacharis.
BETh JACOB
CONGREGATION(Orthodox)
1223 College Ave.237-8641
Services not available at time of publication.
To view the schedule with the latest updates, please visit the website listed above.
CONGREGATIONBETh TIkvAh
(Reform)6121 Olentangy River Rd.
Friday, October 16: Shabbat Evening Service at 7:15 pm.
Saturday, August 17: Torah Study at 9 am; Shabbat Morn-ing Service Celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Ari Levinson at 10:30 am.
Friday, October 23: All ser-vices part of 614 Shabbat. Tikvah Tots with JCC North at 5:45 pm; Pink Shabbat/Tikvah Tots Dinner at 6:15 pm; Pink Shabbat - A Shabbat service dedicated to Breast Cancer awareness and prevention sponsored by Congregation Beth Tikvah’s Sisterhood, at 7:15 pm.
Saturday, October 24: Torah Study at 9 am; Shabbat Morn-ing Service celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Joseph Feinberg, at 10:30 am.
Shabbat services lead by Rabbi Rick Kellner, Canto-rial Soloist Debbie Costa and Cantorial Soloist John Stefano.
For information or to reg-ister for classes, contact the temple office at (614) 885-6286, ext. 10.
AGuDAs AChIm(Conservative)
2767 E. Broad St.237-2747
Saturday, October 17: Para-shat Noach. Shabbat morning services at 9 am; The Shabbat Experience (interactive games and activities led by experi-enced Jewish educators for 1st-5th grade) at 10 am; Baby-sitting available at 10:15 am; Mini-Minyan, led by Rayna Weiner, at 10:30 am; Havdalah at 7:30 pm.
Friday, October 23: Cock-tails for Kabbalat Shabbat (in conjunction with 614 Shabbat), at 6:30 pm, followed by the Kabbalat Shabbat service.
Saturday, October 24: Para-shat Lech Lecha. Shabbat morning services 9 am; Baby-sitting available at 10:15 am; Kids’ Activity room opens at 10:15 am; Tot Shabbat at 11 am; Havdalah 7:21 pm.
Wednesday, October 28: Boys’ Night Out at 6 pm, call Bobbie for more information or to R.S.V.P., (614) 237-2747 x22.
Services are led by Rabbi Mitch Levine and lay vol-unteers. Please contact the synagogue office with general questions at 237-2747.
Visit the Agudas Achim
website at www.agudas achim.org for upcoming events.
AhAvAs shOlOm(Orthodox)
2568 E. Broad St.252-4815
Friday, October 16: Morn-ing service at 6:45 am; Eve-ning Candlelighting at 6:33 pm; Mincha at 6:35 pm.
Saturday, October 17: Para-shas Noah. Morning Services at 9 am; Teen Minyan at 9:15 am; Children’s program at 10 am; Daf Yomi at 5:20 pm; Afternoon Shiur at 5:50 pm; Mincha at 6:20 pm; Ma’ariv at 7:31 pm.
Morning Services for the week of October 18: Sunday at 8:15 am; Monday and Thursday at 6:40 am; Tues-day, Wednesday and Friday at 6:45 am.
Evening services for the week of October 18 are at 6:25 pm.
Friday, October 23: Morn-ing service at 6:45 am; Eve-ning Candlelighting at 6:23 pm; Mincha at 6:25 pm.
Saturday, October 24: Para-shas Lech-Lecha. Morning Services at 9 am; Teen Min-yan at 9:15 am; Children’s program at 10 am; Daf Yomi
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synagOguesstein, Sarah Carlstein, Flora Cohan, Amy Cohn, Norman Friedman, Leonard Goldman, Louise Guggenheim, Alberta Harber, Susan Janusz, Deborah Jenkins, Camille Kaynes, Sylvia Liver-ant, Leon Mendel, Sylvia Nathans, Esther Nemer, Thomas Rosenberg, Tillie Rosenthal , Leslie Rosenthal *, Bertha Schechter, Alex Scheiman *, Gregg Scheiman *, Doris Schiffman, Sara Shapiro, Gertrude Singer, Jodi Oppenheimer Slutsky *, Jacob Worly.
Services are conducted by Rabbi Misha Zinkow, Cantor Bat-Ami Moses.
For more information about Temple Israel or its programs, call the temple office at 866-0010.
THE TORAH CENTER(Orthodox)
2942 E. Broad St.235-8070
Friday, October 16: Mincha at 6:40 pm; Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:55 pm.
Saturday, October 17: Shacharit at 10 am; Torah Study at 6 pm; Mincha, Seudah Shlishit and Maariv at 6:35 pm.
Monday, October 19: Torah Study at 7 pm.
Wednesday, October 21: Tanya at 7:30 pm.
Friday, October 23: Mincha at 6:30 pm; Kabbalat Shabbat at 6:35 pm.
Saturday, October 24: Shacharit at 10 am; Torah Study at 5:45 pm; Mincha, Seudah Shlishit and Maariv at 6:25 pm.
Monday, October 26: Torah Study at 7 pm.
Wednesday, October 28: Tanya at 7:30 pm.
WEXNER HERITAGEvIllAGE
(Saul Schottenstein Synagogue)1151 College Ave.
231-4900
The community is invited to join residents for services.
Friday, October 16: Kaballat Shabbat Service at 3:30 pm.
Saturday, October 17: Shab-bat morning service at 10 am.
Friday, October 23: Kaballat Shabbat Service at 3:30 pm.
Saturday, October 24: Shab-bat morning service at 10 am.
Call (614) 489-8281to check Eruv status.
Serv ices can be seen streamed live online at http://tbsohio.org/streaming/
For more information con-cerning upcoming Temple events, call the Temple office, visit the Web site or send e-mail to the office.
TEmplE IsRAEl(Reform)
5419 E. Broad St.866-0010
www.templeisrael.org
Friday, October 16: Erev Shabbat Services at 6:30 pm
Saturday, October 17: Shab-bat Morning Services at 10 am; Ethan Beckman will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah at a special Havdallah service.
Sunday, October 18: Rosh Hodesh Cheshvan at 7 pm. R.S.V.P. by calling Rabbi Mars at (614) 866-0010.
Monday, October 19: Bub-be’s Blessing (Knitters) at 11:30 am.Yahrzeits observed Friday, October 16: Clara Barr, Frank Berger, Stella Bowman*, Joseph Bronstein, Shirley Delnostro, Kurt Fleisch, Samuel Gerstein, Melissa Goldberg, Eve Good-man *, Nathan Gorenstein, Isadore Gurvis, Jack Heltzer, Bessie , Kahn, Shirley Kalish, Julius Knight *, Edith Komerofsky, Dominick Leone *, Sarah Levenstein *, Jacob Mallinger, Paul Miller, Esther Napoleon, Carolyn Nolan, Adam Nollman, David Orlins, Bunny Putchat, Pearl Reifel, Danie Schmayer *,Louis Silverman, Jo-seph Summer *, Betty Targ , Samuel Tuckerman, Theodore Vanko, Nettie Weisbach.
Friday, October 23: Shab-bat Services at 6:30 pm, Adult Choir Participating. (614) Shabbat.
Saturday, October 24: Shab-bat Morning Services at 10 am; Wildest Shabbat at the Nature Center at Battelle Darby Park at 1:30 pm to see the bison.
Sunday, September 25: Con-secration at 11 am.
Monday, October 26: Bub-be’s Blessing (Knitters) at 11:30 am.Yahrzeits observed Friday, October 23: Milton Austin, Phillip Beckman, Hendil Bendel Wein-
ongoing - join anytime.Saturday, October 24: Shab-
bat Morning Services at 9:30 am; Women’s Torah Study at 10 am; CKids – Chabad Kids Club (ages 5-12) at 10:45 am; Tot Shabbot (ages 2 through 5) at 11 am; Kiddush Luncheon at 12 pm.
Sunday, October 25: Sunday Morning Minyon, 9:45 am.
Tuesday, October 27: Yoga Class at 4:30 pm.
Wednesday, October 28: Morning Minyan at 7 am.
Thursday, October 29: Par-sha Class, Journey into the Soul of Torah, at 7:30 pm, ongoing - join anytime.
All events are held at the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in New Albany and are free and open to all, unless otherwise noted.
TEmplE BETH sHAlOm
(Reform)5089 Johnstown Rd.
Friday, October 16: Shab-bat Chai with Shabband at 6:30 pm.
Saturday, October 17: Shab-bat services, with Jonathan Bates First Aliyah at 10 am.
Sunday, October 18: Ke-hillat Torah Religious School at 9 am, at JCC New Albany; Sunday School for Parents with Rabbi Kopans, “How Do You Jew” class with Rabbi Apothaker, at 9:15 am; Library Committee meeting at TBS at 10 am; JuBeSTY Glow In the Dark Putt Putt outing at 2 pm; TBS Board Meeting at TBS at 4 pm.
Monday, October 19: Pizza & Quiet Study in TBS Social Hall, after school.
Tuesday, October 20: WBS Lunch-n-Learn at 12 pm; Weight Watchers at 6 pm.
Wednesday, October 21: Mah-Jongg on the Mezzanine at 1 pm; Midweek Hebrew at 4 pm
Thursday, October 22: Chal-lah Take & Bake, at Schot-tenstein Chabad Center, at 6:30 pm.Yahrzeits observed Friday, October 16: selma Hoffman Abel, Sybil Ankerman, Edith Gold, Leonard Goldman, Hortense Marx Green, Mortimer Grossman, William Hersch, Milton Krantz, Richard Meltzer, Laura Miller, Gertrude Rocker, Sidney Shuman, Charlotte Slutsky, Vivian Yosowitz.
Friday, October 23: 614 Shabbat - Family Friendly Erev Shabbat, at 6:30 pm. Din-ner following, served by the TBS Men’s Club, with Israeli dancing led by Mim Chenfeld and Marlene Robbins.
Saturday, October 24: Sim-chat Shabbat services at 10 am; Havdalah Concert at the JCC at 7:30 pm.
Sunday, October 25: Ke-hillat Torah Religious School, plus WBS Blankets & Break-fast, at 9 am, at JCC New Albany; Sunday School for Parents with Rabbi Kopans, “How Do You Jew” class with Rabbi Apothaker, at 9:15 am.
Tuesday, October 27: Weight Watchers at 6 pm.
Wednesday, October 28: Mah-Jongg on the Mezzanine at 1 pm; Midweek Hebrew at 4 pm.Yahrzeits observed Friday, October 23: David Barton, D’salomon Benzakein, Dawn Booker, David Eisenberg, Diane Greenberg, Earl Head-lee, Susan Janusz, Emma Jenny, Susan Jones, Carl Benjamin Klodell, Michael Loewengart, Arthur Meizlish, Leon Mendel, Otto F. Neu-bauer, Claire Pravda, Tillie Rosenthal, Pauline Shapiro, Rita Sheid, James Telford, Joseph Turner,Yolanda Washer.
Services led by: Rabbi How-ard L. Apothaker, Ph.D.; Rabbi Benjy A. Bar-Lev; Gail Rose, Music Director and Cantorial Soloist.
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A havdalah concert was held in Toronto last year for The Shabbat Project (Credit: The Shabbat Project).
Shabbat for a good reason, not a tragedy. That is The Shabbat Project.”
In Australia, Talya Rotman is directing efforts to bring youths together through the Shoelace Project, originally started by a 17-year-old student in South Africa. Stu-dents receive a single luminous blue shoe-lace that they can wear to school. It allows the children to own a unique badge that shows they are part of a global movement.
Rotman says the lo-cal Jewish community is also focusing this year on the “Pull Up a Chair” campaign, encouraging Jews to host meals in their homes. The community has created 1,000 Shabbat Project tool kits, which include bentcher (birkat hamazon or grace after meals) cards, candles, grape juice, and anything else one might need to complete the mitzvah of Shabbat.
“For us, the highlight is that this year more than 100 Jewish organizations are involved in some way—hosting a cocktail party and an educational ses-sion to teach about the mitzvah of Shabbat,” says Rotman. “That so many organizations are getting together, that is just really amazing to see.”
The Shabbat Project’s new inclusion of Israeli cities is a highlight this year, according to Rabbi Goldstein. In a country with deep secular-religious di-vides, Jewish communities are coming together with the back-
ing of mayors and municipali-ties throughout Israel as well as individual lay leaders. Hatzofim (secular) and Bnei Akiva (Or-thodox)—the country’s two biggest youth movements—are sending tens of thousands of their members into the field to arrange Shabbat dinners
and activities and to hold joint Kabbalat Shabbat (welcoming in Shabbat) services.
Tel Aviv will host “back to basics” Friday night picnics on Rothschild Boulevard and Kikar Hamedina. In Safed, where the popular Shabbat songs “Shalom Aleichem” and “Lecha Dodi” were written, the mayor will host a citywide uni-ty Kabbalat Shabbat service.
Ilan Ivgi of Ashkelon says he sees The Shabbat Project as a chance to connect Ashkelon to the rest of global Jewry. Hav-ing lived in Peru, Ivgi says he noticed in the South American nation how synagogue was not just a place for religiously ob-servant people, but an opportu-nity for community-building. He wants that for his current Israeli hometown, too.
“We are lucky to have Israel, but people need more than
that,” he says.Working with the mayor
and five of the major commu-nity centers, Ivgi has helped arrange communal Shabbat dinners, an evening of Shabbat karaoke, and the opportunity for a community-wide prayer service.
“Our strength is in unity. There is nothing better to connect the Jewish people than something from our Torah,” Ivgi says.
Rabbi Gold-stein believes the secret to the success of The Shabbat Project is the fact that i n d i v i d u a l s ,
such as Ivgi, are empowered to spearhead their own efforts and take ownership of what it means to be a Jew.
“There is no bureaucratic structure or hierarchy. People take it on themselves and exercise personal leadership,” he says.
The project’s website (www.theshabbosproject.org) offers toolkits and customizable mar-keting materials for support, and it encourages individual communities to reference the work they are doing. This way, they can share their best ideas with partner communities around the world.
“A flash mob has this ele-ment of being viral and natural and community and socially driven,” says Goldstein. “This is a holy flash mob.”
Maayan Jaffe writes for JNS.org
intimidated.”Rabbi Zev Shandalov, a
popular teacher in Ma’ale Adumim and a former con-gregational rabbi in Chicago, agrees.
“Some rabbis say, ‘Stay the heck out of the Old City,’ but we can’t forsake it because God is not forsaking Jerusa-lem and He doesn’t want us to either. I tell people, ‘Look, practically, we don’t know any single location the terrorists are coming from so stopping them is next to impossible. So we need to daven that God gives the police and border patrol the skills and tools nec-essary to protect all of us, even as we ultimately realize it’s God protecting us,’” he says.
The synagogue itself is where that realization often takes root.
“We’ve been through it before, including last summer; it’s part of the reality of living here. And people look to their synagogue for support,” says Rabbi Jeffrey Cymet, leader of Hakehila HaHadasha, a Masorti (Conservative) con-gregation in Tel Aviv. At that congregation, though current events mean an uptick in prayers for the state and for peace, the emphasis remains on Torah and mitzvot—which Cymet says “have been the support of the Jewish people for millennia.”
Congregants “are asking good questions but of course there are few good answers,” says Rabbi Yonatan Rosens-weig of the Netzach Menashe synagogue in Beit Shemesh.
“The job of spiritual leader is not the political or security end of things—we leave that to our elected government—but it’s more common right now when far too many bad things are happening to far too many good people to hear, ‘What does all this mean theo-logically?’” he says.
Rosensweig’s response: “All I can answer is for us to ask ourselves what we can learn from this. People struck by tragedy often turn it into amazing actions in the world and suffering of-ten triggers emotional and spiritual growth. So it’s not always healthy to focus on how we don’t know why God does things, but it’s healthier
that none of the Russian-born Israelis he works with through his Netanya-based outreach program cancelled on his monthly tour to sites around Israel.
“They’re not going to be frightened off….I remind them that the mosque Muslims think Israelis covet was gener-ously given to them by Moshe Dayan after the 1967 war, at a time when the victorious Israeli army could have eas-ily taken back that part of the Old City. And that it’s called the Temple Mount because of our Temple,” says Birnbaum.
Now, he adds, Jews visiting the Temple Mount are ha-rassed and forbidden to move their lips over fear that they might be praying, a prohibited action for Jews at the holy site.
“And now, for us, as we begin the Torah again, I tell them we need to be confident that we will finish and start it, finish and start it, year after year, right here, with no need to apologize for being in our land,” Birnbaum says.
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Car-dozo of the Jerusalem-based David Cardozo Academy recently blogged in an “open letter” to God about strug-gling with faith in a time of terror.
“I know that it is more than surprising that we don’t expe-rience waves of terrorism on a daily basis….And I suspect that You (God) are behind this….I still realize that we Jews are the greatest miracle of all,” he writes. “We have outlived all our enemies—the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and many others….Not even the Holocaust succeeded in wiping us out. The State of Israel is an ongoing miracle in a region that has gone com-pletely mad. How, then, can I deny Your existence?”
Cardozo proceeds to tell JNS.org, “Anti-Semitism, whether it’s European or from the Arab world, [occurs] be-cause we as Jews stand for values they have great diffi-culty accepting. But ironically, what all these anti-Semitic attacks ultimately do is remind us of these values of ours and increase our pride in being Jewish.”
Deborah Fineblum Schabb writes for JNS.org.
to examine what does this teach us.”
Rabbi Seth Farber—who heads Itim, an organization that helps individuals ne-gotiate with the religious authorities in Israel, and is also a congregational rabbi in Ra’anana—tried to deal with tension by creating dialogue. He recently he invited four imams and his congregants to his sukkah, with mixed results.
“The whole thing is very painful,” he says. “What we discovered is no one under-stands the other side. People left with perhaps a little more understanding, but also im-mense frustration.”
Rabbi Elan Adler—a teach-er, school administrator, coun-selor, and former Baltimore pulpit rabbi now living in Ma’ale Adumim—takes a different approach. He says he was powerfully reminded by the recent prayer for the new Hebrew month of Cheshvan and the beginning of this year’s Torah-reading cycle that “we have to take a fresh look at things here and remind ourselves that it’s our enemies who are on the attack.”
At the same time, the se-curity situation presents a spiritual challenge for Adler.
“I think of myself as a person of faith, but when these things keep happening to guys praying or coming to the aid of another and the families suffer so much, I find my faith unmoored,” he says. “I have to remind my-self that God runs the world and that the God I pray to is the God of the big picture who is just. And that I for one don’t have scintilla of a clue why He does what He does. We need to hold both of these thoughts at the same time and remember that, even though we sometimes pay a huge price to live in God’s corner of the world, our job is to hold on tight when He swings the rope wildly. We need to remember that 6.5 million Jews live in this country, go to work, go out to eat, catch a movie at Cinema City and put their kids to bed, doing their best to live their lives.”
Along those lines, Rabbi Ervin Birnbaum, a retired Masorti pulpit rabbi, reports
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the Knesset passes and the Knesset can’t do anything about it,” Shaked said, point-ing to the battle over laws regarding the infiltration into Israel of illegal migrants from Africa. The Knesset has passed several laws decreas-ing migrants’ incentive to come to Israel, only to have the Supreme Court continu-ously strike the laws down.
“We [Knesset members] have the responsibility of what’s going on in Israel, but we don’t have the au-thority because we cannot execute what we think is the right solution for illegal im-migrants,” Shaked said. “In Israel, most of the people think that the balance should be better.”
Meanwhile, the Temple Mount holy site has been a flashpoint of Arab-Israeli tension in recent weeks amid Israeli security forces’ efforts to subdue Palestinian rioters, who have attacked Jewish visitors and police officers at the compound with rocks and Molotov cocktails.
Shaked has been behind a push for harsher punishments for stone-throwers, espe-cially following the murder of 64-year-old Jewish man Alexander Levlovich in a rock-throwing attack as he drove home from a Rosh Hashanah eve dinner.
Asked by an audience member why Israel does not have harsher penalties for stone-throwers, Shaked criticized Israeli judges for not handing out the maxi-mum punishments for such incidents. She noted that she has proposed a bill to set the minimum punishment for stone-throwers at two to four years in prison.
Israeli relations with Jor-dan have soured as a result of the Temple Mount tension. Jordan’s King Abdullah has harshly criticized Israel for its actions with regards to the rioters, while others in the international community have urged Israel to maintain the status quo at the holy site. Israel, in turn, has accused Abdullah of turning a blind eye to Palestinian violence
tant Islam with nuclear weap-ons,” and the nuclear deal is the “marriage certificate of that unholy union,” said Ne-tanyahu, whose speech was highlighted by a 45-second stare-down of world leaders to confront them over their silence on the Iranian threat.
Shaked called Netanyahu’s speech “excellent” and said she believes his stern mes-sage about the nuclear deal, as well as the U.N.’s failure to hold Iran accountable for its threats to destroy Israel, was “very strong.”
In her relatively young ca-reer as a politician, Shaked, a mother of two, has quickly risen through the ranks of the Jewish Home party. Origi-nally a software engineer for Texas Instruments in Israel, Shaked is a bit of an anomaly within Jewish Home—which is largely comprised of reli-gious Zionist lawmakers—due to the fact that she is a secular woman from Tel Aviv.
Shaked joked about that situation during the com-munity discussion in Boston, saying she was glad she ignored the advice of those who argued she would have no place in the Jewish Home party.
Despite her lifestyle dif-ferences with many Jewish Home members, Shaked has been one of the party’s most outspoken and fervent mem-bers, championing legislation like 2014’s controversial na-tion-state bill that promoted the Jewish character of Israel and vocally opposing a future Palestinian state.
As justice minister, Shaked has come under fire from many of the political left, who have accused her of seeking to weaken the Israeli Supreme Court.
In her public presenta-tion, Shaked explained the struggle in Israel between the judicial and legislative branches of government.
“The Supreme Court can actually override anything
weapons…then in 10 years it will spark a nuclear-arms race.”
Earlier, Israeli Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at length in opposition of the Iran deal during his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
“I have long said that the greatest danger facing our world is the coupling of mili-
saw at the [U.N.] General Assembly,” Shaked told JNS.org after the larger talk in Boston. “His speech was full of lies and anti-Semitic statements. It was really sad that he got so much applause in the U.N.”
“We need to be tough against any sign of violence and arrest the people [behind
the attack],” she added.The Iran nuclear deal,
Shaked said, is dangerous because “it will spark a con-ventional arms race in the Middle East. Iran will get billions of dollars in sanc-tions relief that will go to its terror allies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis [in Yemen], while also put-ting money towards its own
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CTA students and their families will be staying after school for the challah activi-ties and members of the com-munity will be able to come and participate.
“We plan to have extra dough so that some of the challot that we braid will also be shared with families and individuals that will ap-preciate having a fresh chal-lah to welcome in Shabbat,” explained Shari Herszage. “Our students learn about welcoming guests and what better way to welcome others than with the sweet taste of freshly baked challah.”
RSVP is recommended by contacting [email protected] or 864-0299, ext 218
Columbus Torah Academy will be the site of a Challah Take & Bake on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 4 pm as part of the 614 Shabbat weekend throughout the city. All members of the community are invited to this event which will focus on the mitzvah of challah, giving participants an opportunity to braid their own challah and take it home to bake.
“Our entire school will be transformed to celebrate the mitzvah of challah”, explained Leah Savage, Judaic Studies teacher. “Our high school students will be making the dough and reciting the bless-ing while our science students are learning about the chemi-cal reactions of the yeast.”
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and gently humorous story about overcoming prejudice and finding redemption in unexpected places and set in London’s East End.
To learn more about the Co-lumbus Jewish Film Festival or to order tickets, visit www.cjfilmfest.org or contact Emily Schuss at [email protected] or 614-559-6205.
The Columbus Jewish Film Festival is a program of The Jewish Community Center of Greater Columbus, and underwritten by the Lenore Schottenstein and Commu-nity Jewish Arts Fund of the Columbus Jewish Foundation.
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there.Shaked spoke out against
the ban on Jews praying at the Temple Mount.
“Today there this discrimi-nation against Jews on the Temple Mount….We are a democratic state and we keep the freedom of worship, but it is absurd that we are not allowed to pray there,” she told JNS.org.
Yet the justice minister also cautioned against any dramatic policy changes at the holy site.
“But on the other end, we need to be very delicate and careful about changing the status quo,” she said. “So right now, I think the goal is to lower the tensions on the Temple Mount and to arrest anyone who is hurting the visitors and soldiers.”
Shaked said in the inter-view that her decision to come speak in the U.S. was influenced by her respect for America as Israel’s “number-one ally,” despite her opinion that President Barack Obama “lacks a basic understanding of the Middle East.” She said she considers the American Jewish community to be “very strategic for Israel” and that she“ hopes U.S. Jews can all be “ambassadors for Israel.”
Sean Savage is a writer for JNS.org.
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