The Dayton Jewish Observer, November 2015

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Marshall Weiss

Their blood cries out

More than 100 years ago, five Dayton girls and young women were brutally strangled and raped.

Brian Forschner says he knows who did it.

Author Brian Forschner at the grave of Anna Markowitz, Beth Jacob Cemetery

Kidney donor’s gift of life7

Donor Debbie DiSalvo with recipient Jerry Halasz

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Coping with the attacks8

An eastern Jerusalem checkpoint

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Family Education... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

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O b i tu a r i es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

Chanukah Bazaar at Beth Or

have lunch available for purchase on Nov. 18 including brisket sandwiches, latkes, sufganiyot (doughnuts), and chopped liver. Brisket and chopped liver will also be available for bulk purchase by preorder. To place an order, email [email protected] or call 435-3400.

Temple Beth Or will hold its Annual Chanukah Bazaar on Sunday, Nov. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and Wednes-day, Nov. 18 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Along with Chanukah items available for purchase in the Judaica shop, local artisans and vendors will be on site.

The Temple Beth Or Brisketeers will

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Symposium on Jesus, Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, profes-sor of New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences, will present two lectures for the 37th Annu-al Ryterband Symposium, on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at United Theological Seminary.

She is the author of The Mis-understood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, and Short Stories by Jesus: the Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi.

Levine describes herself as a “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a pre-dominantly Christian divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt.”

At 3:30 p.m., Levine will deliver the

lecture The Bible and Israel/Palestine: Jewish and Christian Dialogue and Disputation.

Levine will also present the talk Hearing Jesus’ Parables through First-Century Jewish Ears at 7:30 p.m. Both programs are free and open to the public.

The Ryterband Symposium is co-sponsored by The Uni-versity of Dayton, Wright State University, and United Theo-

logical Seminary.United Theological Seminary is locat-

ed at 4501 Denlinger Road in Trotwood.For more information about the

symposium, call Wright State University Zusman Prof. of Judaic Studies Dr. Mark Verman at 775-2461.

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By Marshall Weiss, The ObserverBrian Forschner descends the hill to the back

edge of Beth Jacob Cemetery on Old Troy Pike. He finds the modest headstone he is looking for in the last row, just before a tree-lined drop.

The Hebrew on the stone is all but worn away, the name on top barely discernible in English: Anna Markowitz.

“This is now one of the prettier spots,” Forschner says of the site.

When 18-year-old Anna was buried here on Aug. 14, 1907, one reporter described it as “the most dismal spot of the dismal little cem-etery.”

Thousands attended the funeral of this daughter of Polish-Jewish im-migrants. Anna and her parents had arrived in Dayton from Covington, Ky. just two months before.

On the night of Aug. 11, Anna had been strangled and then raped at McCabe Park.

With little to go on, police initially arrested her sister and two brothers; they were permitted to

leave jail to attend Anna’s funeral.

Newspapers across the United States and overseas reported on the case.

Two months later, three elected officials — the county prosecutor, sheriff, and coro-ner — sweated a confession out of a man from Dayton’s black community in Tintown, Layton Hines, who today

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Cincinnati Post photo-illustration of Anna Markowitz

Brian Forschner places a stone on the grave of Anna Markowitz, at Beth Jacob Cemetery. He believes he’s solved the Markowitz murder and rape case, along with murder and rape cases of four other Dayton girls between 1900 and 1909. His book, Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders, delves into the cases.

Marshall Weiss

Their blood cries outMore than 100 years ago, five Dayton girls and young women were strangled and raped. Brian Forschner says he knows who did it.

might be described as developmentally disabled.

On trial, Hines recanted his admission of guilt; he claimed the officials threatened to send him to the electric chair unless he confessed. Hines was sentenced to life

imprisonment.But Forschner, who has a

background in criminal justice, says Dayton police weren’t convinced of Hines’ guilt.

Two females in Dayton had already been strangled and then raped — 11-year-old Ada Lantz in 1900 and 19-year-old Dona Gilman in 1906. After the Markowitz case, two more would be strangled and raped in Dayton — 18-year-old Lizzie Fulhart sometime between 1908 and ‘09, and 15-year-old Mary Forschner in 1909.

These four other cases would go unsolved.Mary was Brian Forschner’s great-aunt. His

research into her murder led him to the stories of the four other girls. Forschner is certain a serial killer was responsible for the girls’ brutal mur-ders.

And he believes it was Temple Israel’s janitor who did it.

Forschner convincingly lays out the evidence in his book, Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders, which was released on Oct. 6.

(Full disclosure: I helped Forschner in his re-search about Dayton’s Jewish community during the time period he covers in Cold Serial.)

As part of the JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest, he’ll lead two bus tours to the crime scenes, on Sunday, Nov. 15, to show how he arrived at his conclusions. The 2 p.m bus is sold out; tickets are still available for the 4 p.m. tour. Joining him for the tours will be attorney David Greer, to offer Continued on Page Five

The community wanted to forget. That’s the only conclu-sion I can draw from author Brian Forschner’s book, Cold Serial, which details the sickening crimes committed in Dayton against girls and young women from 1900 to 1910. These murders and rapes,

virtually unspeakable in that era, wove their way through our Jewish community too. I imagine it was too painful to contemplate; everyone just moved on. After police informed Temple Israel’s rabbi, David Lefkowitz, that the congregation’s janitor had raped a young woman at knife point in the rabbi’s study, all he could bring himself to tell the press was that he would cancel services. Lefkowitz was a beloved community leader and social-justice activist in the Jewish and general communities. Forschner found that in Lefkowitz’s papers, housed at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, there is no mention of the incident. He didn’t talk about it publicly or write about it privately; or maybe at some point it was removed.

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UD, Wright State observe Kristallnacht

The University of Dayton and Wright State University will host commemorations for Kristall-nacht, The Night of Broken Glass, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, in November 1938.

Both events are free and open to the public. The University of Dayton will hold its obser-

vance on Monday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m. in the Immacu-late Conception Chapel. The ceremony will include testimony from Dayton Holocaust Resource Center Chair Renate Frydman and Kindertransport sur-vivor Felix Weil, a candlelighting ceremony, and a musical remembrance by UD’s World Music Choir. For more information about the UD observance, call Crystal Sullivan at 229-3339.

Wright State will present its commemoration on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Room E163 of the Student Union. Concentration camp survivor Sam Heider will be the guest speaker. For more information, call Zusman Prof. of Judaics Dr. Mark Verman at 775-2461.

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Dayton Playhouse presents Anne Frank

The Dayton Playhouse will present the 1997 Broadway adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank by Wendy Kesselman, from Nov. 6 to 15. In addition to showing the day-to-day lives of eight people forced into hiding by the Nazis for two years, the new adapta-tion also shows glimpses of what the characters were like before the Holocaust.

Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. The Dayton Playhouse is at 1301 Sieben-thaler Ave. Tickets are available by calling the box office at 424-8477 or at daytonplayhouse.com.

Interfaith Thanksgiving serviceTemple Beth Or will host an interfaith Thanks-

giving service on Monday, Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m., with clergy and congregants from Christ United Methodist Church, David’s United Church of Christ, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. This is the 28th year the congregations have come together for the Thanksgiving service. For more information, call Temple Beth Or at 435-3400.

Interfaith lunch & learnsChrist Episcopal Church’s Rev. Dr. John Pad-

dock, First Baptist Church’s Rev. Dr. Rodney Kennedy, and Temple Israel’s Rabbi Karen Bod-ney-Halasz will lead interfaith lunch and learn programs Thursdays at noon on Oct. 29 at Temple Israel (130 Riverside Dr., Dayton), Nov. 5 at Christ Episcopal (20 W. First St., Dayton), and Nov. 12 at First Baptist (111 W. Monument Ave, Dayton). The public is invited to bring lunch and participate. For more information, call Temple Israel at 496-0050.

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The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present author Brian Forschner leading a bus tour about the crimes featured in Cold Serial, on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. (the 2 p.m. bus tour is sold out). Tickets, which include a copy of the book, are $20 and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville.

historical context, and actor Scott Stoney, who will provide a voice from the time period.

Stoney portrayed one of Hines’ defense lawyers when Dayton History reenacted the Anna Markowitz murder trial as part of its Old Case Files performances at the Old Court House in 2013.

“You’re going to hear the actual headlines the day these things were announced,” Forschner says of the bus tour, “and you’ll get a sense of how this serial killer operated.”

The term serial killer didn’t exist in the first half of the 20th century. The Western world was familiar with Jack the Ripper’s killings in London in 1888 but little was known about the nature and patterns of such murders and murderers.

“Forensics was in its infancy,” says Forschner, who holds a master’s degree in corrections and education, and a Ph.D. in human behavior/public admin-istration.

A native of Dayton who makes his home in Cincinnati, Forschner has taught criminal justice classes at the University of Dayton. He is also retired from his position as president of senior health and housing ser-vices for Mercy Health Partners.

In the first decade of the 20th century, fingerprinting wasn’t yet common in police use across the United States. Blood typing was also in its infancy.

“If a person didn’t confess, or you didn’t see him do it or there wasn’t circumstantial evidence, there wasn’t anything to do,” Forschner says.

Serial murders, he says, were not unique to Dayton at that time.

“Dayton was just massively growing, from about 70-80,000 in 10 years to about 150,000, and people of all languages, all ethnicities, moving in.”

In this booming industrial city, where anyone who wanted

Their blood cries out

employment could find it, young women worked all three shifts in factories such as NCR or toiled at rolling cigars.

The city of Dayton couldn’t keep up with such basic needs as a large enough police force and adequate street lighting.

Young women came and went to work in Dayton via trol-ley lines from their homes out-side the city limits at all hours.

At first, Forschner says, these Dayton murders were covered nationally and internationally in the press because of their sensational nature.

“The media was already hyped because of Jack the Rip-per, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in The Rue Morgue (with an orangutan that murders with a razor blade), Sweeney Todd penny dreadfuls,” he says. “A lot of criminals were described as man-gorilla, fiends, apes.”

These images only further in-flamed the racism of the times.

“If there was a crime, par-ticularly a rape, they (Dayton police) would roust the black community,” Forschner says.

After Hines’ coerced confes-sion to the murder of Anna Markowitz, the Rev. J.G. Robin-son of the Eaker Street A.M.E. Church railed from the pulpit, “The mistake of one white man is laid at the door of the indi-vidual making the mistake; the mistake of one Negro is charged up against the whole race.”

By the time of the Markowitz murder, crime reporters from outside of Dayton who were assigned here noticed pat-terns that led them to conclude one person had strangled and raped the girls. Two years later, after the Forschner and Fulhart murders, the superintendent of Cleveland State Hospital public-

ly agreed with this theory.In newspapers around the

country and abroad, Dayton then garnered a reputation as a dangerous place for young women because a monster — “Jack the Strangler” or the “Dayton Strangler” — was on the loose.

Dayton’s criminal justice system dismissed the notion of a single killer. Forschner says this might have been since little was known about the nature of serial killers.

More likely, he says, Dayton’s leaders chose not to pursue the serial killer theory for fear that it would prove even worse for Dayton’s reputation.

“With NCR threatening to leave (1906) and the Wright brothers in the news (1909), Dayton did not want these cases in the news,” he says. “There was a lot of thought that it was in Dayton’s best interest to sweep this under the rug.”

The string of murder-rapes of girls and young women in Day-ton ended with the incarceration of Hick White, the janitor at B’nai Yeshurun synagogue, now

Ohio Penitentiary mug shot of Hick White, janitor at B’nai Yeshurun, now Temple Israel. Forschner is convinced White murdered and raped the five girls whose cases he profiles in his book.

Continued from Page Three

Picture postcard of B’nai Yeshurun, now Temple Israel, at its First and Jefferson location. The synagogue’s janitor, Hick White, was apprehended after raping Bessie Stickford at knife point in the rabbi’s study on Feb. 4, 1910. Exactly a year before, the body of Lizzie Fulhart was found in a cistern in an alley behind the synagogue.

known as Temple Israel. White had lured 25-year old

Bessie Stickford of Springfield to B’nai Yeshurun on Feb. 4, 1910 with the promise of a job interview. He raped her at knife point in the rabbi’s study.

Exactly a year before, Lizzie Fulhart’s corpse had been found in a cistern in an alley behind the synagogue.

Bessie survived White’s as-sault and identified him. White was convicted, and imprisoned — only for Bessie’s rape.

Between his escape from the Ohio Penitentiary in 1912 and White’s return to prison in 1922, two girls in Cincinnati disap-peared and one was bludgeoned and raped.

Forschner believes White was culpable in most if not all these cases, and more unsolved mur-der-rapes of Cincinnati girls.

“He was a predator and had

been arrested in Dayton (previ-ously) a number of times,” he says. “He was doing predatory things with young girls. He tried to pull a girl through a grandstand.”

In many ways, Cold Serial is a yin to the yang of David McCullough’s bestselling new book, The Wright Brothers.

Dayton prides itself on the spirit of innovation that came out of that first decade of the 20th century.

In the same place and time, Cold Serial paints a portrait of a crisis that brought out the worst in Dayton’s citizens and public servants on the whole.

In composite, government, media, private detectives, and even neighbors seemed more motivated by pride, greed, politics, one-upmanship and grandstanding than the pursuit of anything close to justice.


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The Ohio Legislature is expected to pass a measure that opposes the boycott movement against Israel.

The speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, Cliff Rosenberger (R-Clarksville), made the announcement following an Oct. 8 address to the State Legislature by Israeli Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Hilik Bar, of the opposition Zionist Union party, The Jeru-salem Post reported.

“Ohio will fight BDS and boycotts against Israel,” Bar told the newspaper, referring to

Ohio readies anti-BDS legislationthe Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions move-ment. “They’ve already

started working on the bill, and will pass it very soon. It was a great gift to hear about it on my visit.”

New York and Indiana also have established anti-BDS resolu-tions, which are now waiting to be voted into law.

Bar reportedly became the first foreign parlia-mentarian to address the Ohio Legislature, which also includes

the state Senate. In his address, Bar spoke of the threats facing Israel, notably by the Iranian regime.

“Peace in the Middle East is a dream for most of its people, but it is a nightmare for the ayatollahs in Iran,” he said, The Jerusalem Post reported. “Iran has an evil, cruel, morally cor-rupt regime.”

Bar was invited to Ohio by Rosenberger and state Senate President Keith Faber. His trip was sponsored by the Israel Leadership Institute.

Bar met with members of the state’s Jewish community and was awarded the key to the state, an honor that also has been bestowed on former Presi-dent George W. Bush, former Israeli President Shimon Peres, and U.S. Sen. John McCain.

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They often crossed paths at social and reli-gious functions around town.

But now my Dad, Jerry, and Debbie DiSalvo will be forever entwined thanks to her selfless act.

On July 27, Debbie donated a kidney to my 73-year-old father. At the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, they be-came a part of each other.

Dad was in kidney failure and on dialysis three times a week while searching for a donor for several years.

I was not a candidate because of neck and back issues. My brother, Mike, was also disqualified because of pinched nerves and disc issues in his neck. Another would-be donor was found to have kidney stones late in the evaluation process.

Debbie told me she saw the posts Mike and I put on Facebook urging potential donors to come forward.

When Debbie re-alized she and Dad had the same blood type, she immedi-ately volunteered.

Dad was thrilled and dumbfounded at the same time.

“My first thought was Debbie has saved my life,” he told me. “How do you repay someone for saving your life? My think-ing was, ‘Why is she doing this? We’re not close friends. Now all of the sudden she’s going to go under the knife for me.’”

For Debbie, it was personal.“This really stems from not

being able to help my own father,” Debbie, 57, said. “Being that my father was on dialysis, I’m a little bit supersensitive to someone else’s father being on dialysis and needing a kidney. The doctors said at the time he was not a candidate for a trans-plant even though my sister and I begged him. I always kind of promised myself back then that if I could ever help some-body, I would.”

Debbie also embraced her religion while making this life-changing decision.

“What is center at our reli-gion? Life,” she said. “My Juda-ism is (also) why I did this. That

Kidney donor’s gift of life

had everything to do with it.”She was released from the

hospital around noon the day after surgery. Dad went home two days later. The recovery has gone as planned for both.

Debbie, a teacher at Spinning Hills Middle School, was ready for the start of the school year with few restrictions and plenty of help from co-workers.

Dad and the new organ are get-

ting along quite well. His kid-ney function levels are normal for the first time in years.

“I’m ever grateful,” he said. “Every day I thank God for Debbie. I received a gift of life.”

Both encourage oth-ers to step up and be donors.

“I truly believe that if you’re blessed to be healthy like I am, then you should consider donation,” said Debbie, who has been on the national bone marrow transplant list for many years.

She had absolutely no trepidation in giving up a kidney.

“My mind was made up when I got tested,” she said. “I would have never even allowed the blood work if my mind wasn’t even made up.”

Dad said being a do-nor ties into his religious beliefs.

“God believes in life,” he said. “(He) doesn’t believe in taking a life. Since we believe strongly in God and l’chayim, to life, it’s important that we fulfill that commandment. If you are a healthy person...if you’re able to donate an organ, especially a kidney, you should get tested and get on a list and let people know you are willing to do-nate...to save a life.”

Debbie’s generosity has al-ready sparked another potential donation. She said a man at her spin gym has been in touch with the UC transplant team.

“I was hoping this would motivate other people,” she said.

Scott Halasz is a staff writer for the Xenia Daily Gazette and Greene County News.

Kidney donor Debbie DiSalvo with recipient Jerry Halasz

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37th Annual Ryterband Symposium

“Jesus, Judaism,and Jewish-Christian Relations”

United Theological Seminary, Trotwood, OhioWednesday, November 4, 2015

3:30 pmThe Bible and Israel/Palestine: Jewish and Christian Dialogue and Disputation

7:30 pmHearing Jesus’ Parables through First-Century Jewish Ears

This program is free and open to the public.

The Annual Ryterband Symposium is co-sponsored by The University of Dayton, Wright State University and United Theological Seminary.

For more information please contact Prof. Mark Verman, WSU, 937-775-2461

Featuring Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University

By Ben Sales, JTAJERUSALEM — “No pepper

spray, no tear gas, no night-sticks,” sighed Itzhak Mizrahi to three disappointed men, as if it were a mantra he’d recited dozens of times.

The glass-topped display case in Magnum, the central Je-rusalem gun shop that Mizrahi has owned for three decades, featured a wide variety of pistols. The pepper spray com-partment, however, was empty, stormed earlier in the week by nervous Israelis hoping to de-fend themselves from stabbing attacks.

The country is suffering a nationwide pepper-spray shortage, Mizrahi said. As the men left, Mizrahi told them he hoped to restock his tear gas

How Jerusalem is coping with the attacks: Police and pepper spray

supply early next week.Jerusalem’s streets and shops

have been desolate for several days, and its atmosphere tense. A string of stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks in the city in October have killed seven Israelis as of Oct. 18, and paralyzed the city center, leading its residents to take measures to protect themselves. Many others are staying inside rather than risk getting knifed. In their place are security guards, checkpoints and police vans.

“There’s a lot more stress everywhere,” said Alexandra Benjamin, who immigrated from London to Jerusalem in 2002. “I’m refusing to allow myself to not go out, but I can’t help noticing the streets are

much, much quieter.”For Mizrahi, busi-

ness is booming. He has sold about twice as many handguns as usual the past two weeks, and he ap-plauds the govern-ment’s recent decision to relax Israel’s strict gun laws.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has urged licensed gun owners to carry their weapons in the street, and was himself photographed toting a firearm.

“We take the guns not to attack, just to defend,” said Mizrahi, a pistol lying by his hand.

Others have looked to more

primitive tools to protect them-selves. On a warm, sunny day, a man walked hurriedly past the central Zion Square holding an umbrella like a spear. A woman carrying shopping bags tucked a mop handle — sans mop — under her right arm. One man fought off a terrorist with a selfie stick.

Other Jerusalem residents have chosen to say home. Jaffa Street, the city’s central thor-oughfare, was almost empty Thursday, as was the Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall. Standing outside his cell phone

store, Yair Kouhara, 18, said he hadn’t made a sale all morn-ing. But having lived through the second intifada as a child, Kouhara said he was unfazed by the terror.

“We’re here not doing any-thing all day,” Kouhara said. “We grew up in this situation. We’re used to it. It’s always tense.”

The Israeli deaths in October don’t approach the death tolls of the suicide bombings that hit Jerusalem during the second intifada 15 years ago, in which hundreds died. Even so, some

Itzhak Mizrahi (L), owner of a Jerusalem gun shop, says his business is booming

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Jerusalem residents said this time is worse.

“If you were careful and you were lucky to live in the right place, you’d be fine,” said Mar-galit Cohen, 39, referring to the violence that wracked the city from 2000 to 2005. “It doesn’t feel like that now. Now it really feels like anywhere you go, it could be there.”

Cohen, like many other par-ents, has responded by driving her kids everywhere, a depar-ture from the Israeli tendency to let children run free. And she makes sure her kids play inside or with close supervision.

In the usually tranquil Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana, the Israeli Scouts youth group postponed its events after two stabbings in the city. And with videos of stabbings and shoot-ings flooding social media, parents have grown doubtful about their ability to shield kids from the violence.

“My kids have access to ev-erything,” Cohen said. “I think it’s probably not so good. We’re all completely crazy because we have everything online, and we see everything online the minute it happens. It makes us completely nuts.”

Benjamin, the British immi-grant, no longer plays Candy Crush on her phone or checks the news as she walks. She doesn’t wear heels, in case she needs to run. And when

she waits for the bus, she stands behind the shel-tered bus stop. Some of her friends have taken self-defense classes, a step she thinks is a bit much.

“I just think it’s part of this hysterical panic, and I don’t want to be a part of that,” she said. ”Walking around with pepper spray — that’s not the world I want to live in.”

As the Israeli govern-ment has encouraged civilian vigilance, its own response has been mili-tary. Hundreds of soldiers and policeman have been deployed across Jerusa-lem and stationed along main streets.

A soldier holding a rifle guarded one of the city’s light rail stops, while a police officer stood opposite him inside the train.

Security is especially intense inside Jerusalem’s Old City, the site of a number of Palestinian stabbing attacks on Jewish-Israelis.

A metal detector was po-sitioned at the Jaffa Gate and the usually bustling nearby market was lined with pairs of soldiers. The light rail station closest to the Western Wall was all but deserted, a police van standing where the train usu-ally stops.

Arab residents of Jerusalem

are also suffering from the tension. On the road to the Arab neighborhood of Silwan, soldiers sat behind a concrete block at a checkpoint, bags of chips scattered among their combat helmets.

As a dusty red car ap-

proached, they stopped the vehicle for a few minutes of questioning.

“I’m scared they’ll shoot me by mistake,” said Samir Masri, 24, who had taxied to work from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi Joz in

the past week rather than walk. “People aren’t going out. The security situation is terrible.”

Jewish- and Arab-Israelis have tried to ease the stress with humor. One spoof of a self-defense video showed the victim conjuring a fireball with his bare hands to deter an at-tacker.

The lone Arab resident of a Tel Aviv apartment building became a viral sensation when he posted to Facebook a selfie with a notice inviting residents to discuss the security threat he supposedly represented. The photo was captioned: “I’m coming and I’ll bring muffins!”

Self-defense measures are largely coping mechanisms, too, said Jerusalem shopkeeper Kesem Atedgi, 21. The city, he said, won’t be secured by pep-per spray.

“If someone comes at you with a knife, this won’t stop him in any case,” Atedgi said, referring to a can. “It’s for a feeling of security.”

Israeli Border Police guarding a checkpoint in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, Oct. 15



By Debra Kamin, JTATEL AVIV — Lucy Aharish never

wanted to be a political symbol. The 34-year-old Arab-Israeli news presenter and television host didn’t even want to be a journalist. When she graduated from high school in the hard-knock southern Israeli town of Dimona, her plan was to be an actress.

But her father insisted she earn a degree in something practical, she told The Times of Israel in April. So she paired theatre studies with a political science degree at Hebrew University, and put in two more years studying journalism at the Koteret school in Tel Aviv.

She has now been on the Israeli news for eight years, and her face and accent-free Hebrew are familiar to Israelis. But what exactly she symbolizes is hotly contested — as became clear in October when she went on a tirade against Arab-Israeli lead-ership and culture on air amid a surge in Palestin-ian violence and an Israeli crack-down.

“Arab leaders …are adding fire to the environ-ment and instead of understanding that once it will calm down, we will be the ones to pay the price,” she said on Channel 2. “The second intifada took such a heavy price from Israeli-Arabs and the Palestinians. We are not learn-ing from the mistakes.”

Aharish got her start in 2007 on Israel’s Channel 10, making history as the nation’s first Arab news presenter before putting in serious time in the West Bank as the channel’s Palestinian affairs reporter. Today she hosts the daily English edition of i24news and a Hebrew-language morning show on Channel 2. She remains one of the few Arab-Israelis on the news.

Known among Jewish-Israelis as a rare moderate Arab voice, Aharish takes pride in the Jewish state and has been willing to openly criticize her fel-low Arab-Israelis.

“The problem with the Arab minority is that it sees itself as a victim,” she told the Washington Post in April, shortly before she made history by joining 13 other Israelis to light a torch at the na-tion’s pomp-and-circumstance-heavy Independence Day ceremony. “Yes, there is racism against Arabs in Israel; yes, the Arabs do not get their entire rights. But I am not a victim of Israel; I am a human being and a citizen.”

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The first human interaction: Brother murders brotherBy Gary Rosenblatt

Sadly, the latest book from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks — former chief rabbi of Great Britain and widely admired around the world as a leading Jewish thinker — is all too timely.

It’s called Not In God’s Name: Con-fronting Religious Violence (Schocken Books), and it deals with precisely the kind of hatred expressed by Sheik Mu-hammad Sallah of Gaza, who recently urged Palestinians in the West Bank to stab Jews. “Stab the myths of the Talmud in their minds...Stab the myths about the Temple in their hearts.”

Clearly, the hatred at the core of such exhortations is religious, not political; the enemy is not just Israel, it’s Jews. And the message is painfully familiar, to the point that we no longer respond with shock to the ongoing hateful, antisemitic rants of Friday sermons by sheiks or to the Palestinian media, with newspaper headlines and cartoons for children on television that portray Jews as pigs, and worse.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calls for calm one day and tells his people the next that “every drop of blood spilled for Allah” is “clean and pure.”

The violent attacks by Arabs on Jews in recent weeks have been differ-ent from the past two intifadas, at least until now.

The assailants, for the most part, have been lone young men and women, not sophisticated militant groups. The weapons have been knives and other primitive instruments, not bombs.

And the motivation has not been “the occupation” or “the settlements” but the false belief that the Israeli gov-ernment plans to allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. (Why Israel decid-ed, just after the 1967 War, to ban Jews from Judaism’s holiest site speaks to its desire to avoid a religious war between Jews and Muslims.)

Further, the assaults have been as primitive as the first human interaction between the children of Adam and Eve

God weeps over religious violencein the Bible, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain.

All these centuries later, the children of Abraham shed their cousins’ blood with a vengeance, literally.

Have we made any progress over thousands of years, with countless wars carried out in God’s name in what Sacks calls acts of “altruistic evil,” violence carried out by the followers of one religious tradition against those of a different belief?

Far too often, whether the aggressors were Christians or Muslims, the victims were Jews.

In his book, Sacks decries a 21st-century Mideast where loving God has come to mean hating God’s enemies, an us-versus-them climate that finds ISIS committing beheadings and crucifix-ions in the name of Allah.

Witnessing such acts, the rabbi said in an interview the other day, reminds him of God’s reaction, cited in Genesis 6: 5-6, on seeing man’s “wickedness.”

“And the Lord regretted that He had made man on earth, and His heart was saddened.”

In his book, a work that began more than a dozen years ago, Sacks offers a deep and creative interpretation of stories of violence in the Bible, with an

emphasis on the sibling rivalries in Genesis, in-cluding Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, Rachel and Leah, and Joseph and his brothers.

“This book was not written for Jews primar-ily, but for Christians and Muslims — one that they could read without feeling that

they were being put on the defensive,” he told me.

He offers an alternative reading of key Bible stories to correct what he considers the common interpretation that there are clear favorites among the siblings. He asserts, for example, that Ishmael, the firstborn son of Abraham and father of the Arab nation, was not rejected by God.

The rabbi hopes his book will be “the beginning of a conversation to show Christians, Jews and Muslims that we can create a new path. You have to construct a politics of hope,” he said, “if you want to defeat the politics of fear.”

Imam Abdullah Antepli, the found-ing director of Duke University’s Cen-ter for Muslim Life and a self-described member of the “moderate Muslim majority,” agrees with the rabbi’s thesis that while Christian antisemitism is rooted in its theology, antisemitism en-tered Islam from the outside and only recently.

The imam, who was born in Turkey and came to the United States at the age of 30, said he was raised in a secular,

very antisemitic home, and became an avid student of Judaism after he studied the Koran and came to believe that anti-semitism was not authentic Islam.

He has not yet read the new Rabbi Sacks book but, informed of its close readings and reinterpretations of bibli-cal rivalries, he told me that the prob-lems with Islam’s view of Jews today are “historical, cultural and political, not primarily theological.” He went fur-ther in suggesting that Sacks’ “esoteric” reading of biblical events are “irrel-evant,” given the nature of the current political conflict over Israel.

Antepli compared the Muslim-Jewish relationship to a couple’s attitudes to-ward each other after a painful divorce, forgetting all the positive memories and focusing on the current bitterness. He noted that while the Muslim-Jewish relationship was never “rosy,” in cen-turies past there were long periods of Muslim tolerance of Jews in their lands.

This reality is completely overshad-owed by the events of 1948, he said, when the state of Israel was created and perceived as the usurper of Arab land.

The imam decried the current forms of antisemitic violence as “horrific and growing” among Muslims around the world, and noted that “the silence of lazy Jewish, Christian and Muslim moderates empowers the crazies.”

Sacks is hopeful that his book can help foster religious understanding, beginning with leaders of the three re-spective faiths, and can be transmitted to their adherents around the world.

He insists that “the use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry” and that “to invoke God to justify violence against the innocent is not an act of sanctity but of sacrilege.”

Anyone who believes that man was created in God’s image should promote the rabbi’s thesis. The future of world events may well depend on the success of efforts to convince Islamic funda-mentalists that God’s “heart is sad-dened,” not satisfied, by their bloody acts of hatred.

Gary Rosenblatt is editor and publisher of The New York Jewish Week.

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By Ben Sales, JTATEL AVIV — When Is-

raeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu blamed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem prior to the estab-lishment of Israel, for inspiring Hitler to exterminate the Jews of Europe, he meant to show the long history of Palestinian antisemitism.

Regardless of his intent, Ne-tanyahu was hit with a tsunami of backlash from historians and politicians who accused him of distorting history. Yad Vashem, the Anti-Defamation League and the German government have all criticized the historical accuracy of the prime minis-ter’s claim, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman even reiterating German re-sponsibility for the genocide.

Netanyahu walked back the statement on Oct. 21, saying he had “no intention to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of Euro-pean Jewry.”

Here’s who the mufti was, how he felt about a Jewish state, and what really hap-

Who was Haj Amin al-Husseini?pened between him and Hitler.

Born in Jerusalem near the turn of the 20th century, Hus-seini came from a prominent Palestinian family. In 1921, Pal-estine’s British rulers installed him as the grand mufti of Jerusalem, a religious leader-ship position.

Husseini was an advocate for Arab nationalism, and in 1936 he joined with other Palestinian leaders in revolt against the British. The revolt lasted until 1939, claimed thousands of lives, including hundreds of Jews, and led the British to seek an exit from the territory. In 1937, the British removed Husseini from his position, prompting him to flee to Lebanon.

During World War II, Hus-seini supported an anti-British rebellion in Iraq and became the rebels’ envoy to Germany and Italy. When the rebellion was suppressed, he fled to Italy and continued his contacts with the Axis powers from there, famously meeting with Adolf Hitler in November 1941. He continued to sup-

port the Nazis in various ways throughout the war.

After the war, Husseini escaped to Beirut, his influence diminished. He died there in 1974.

Husseini opposed any accommoda-tion of a Jewish national home in what would become Israel. He opposed the 1939 British White Paper, de-spite its ban on Jewish immigra-tion to Palestine, because it set too long a timeline for an Arab state. And he opposed the 1947 United Nations partition plan that sought to create neighbor-ing Jewish and Palestinian states.

Husseini also backed violence against Jews. In 1920, he organized an anti-British demonstration in Jerusalem that grew violent and was subsequently convicted of incitement.

The source of Netanyahu’s claim that Husseini bears responsibility for the Holo-caust stems from his famous meeting with Hitler on Nov. 28, 1941. Husseini at the time was seeking German support for Arab independence from

colonial rule, and records of the meeting attributed to a British archive show that Hus-seini focused his requests on a formal Nazi declaration of support for “the indepen-dence and unity of Pales-tine, Syria, and

Iraq” under Arab rule.According to the British re-

cord, Husseini told Hitler, “The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews, and the Communists.” He also thanked Hitler for supporting “the elimination of the Jewish national home.”

Contrary to Netanyahu’s as-sertion, nowhere in the record

is there a suggestion that Hus-seini told Hitler to exterminate Europe’s Jews. The record does report that Hitler announced his intentions, noting that he planned to “ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem.”

“To say Hitler was influ-enced by the mufti is far from the truth,” said Hebrew Uni-versity professor Moshe Maoz. “He didn’t need the mufti to perform the extermination.”

According to Maoz, Palestin-ians today see Husseini as one of their national fathers. But their admiration is mitigated, he said, because Husseini was so strongly pro-Nazi and was ineffective in advancing the Palestinian cause.

His stature among Palestin-ians, Maoz said, pales to that of Yasser Arafat, whose memory enjoys near universal rever-ence. But Palestinians tend not to criticize Husseini in public, Maoz said, because they want to display unity.

“Not a few Palestinians think he wasn’t so positive,” Maoz said. “He was very stub-born. But those who oppose him don’t emphasize it out of solidarity.”

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Tarnegol hodu, a bird called turkeyLESHON IMA — MOTHER TONGUE

Thanksgiving is on the way, so let’s talk turkey, but in Hebrew. The Hebrew

name for the American turkey is tarnegol hodu, literally rooster of India.

Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin

Why, in Hebrew, is an indigenous American bird connected with India?

Some theorize the name was original-ly given to a fowl imported to European markets from Madagascar by Turkish merchants.

The bird, which was large and tasty, received the name turkey after the coun-try of origin of its importers.

The Pilgrims, who came to Plymouth, saw the American bird, which to them resembled the familiar bird of the old

country and they called it by the same name.

Others claim an Hebraic origin for the name of the American bird. Accordingly, Columbus, whose roots may have been Jewish, knew some Hebrew and upon seeing the colorful bird called it tuki, Hebrew for parrot. With the years, it was altered to the familiar name turkey, Europe’s favorite fowl.

In Hebrew, unlike English, the bird is identified with India rather than Turkey, echoing the early explorers’ misidentifi-cation of the Western Hemisphere with India.

In English, the indigenous population was misnamed; in Hebrew, the indig-enous bird was misnamed.

Tarnegol hodu, the Hebrew name for turkey, is based on two unrelated languages. First, tarnegol, which means rooster, is derived from the ancient Su-merian word tarlugal meaning the king’s bird, and mentioned often in the Talmud but not in the Bible.

Hodu is the biblical name for India (Esther 1:1), which is derived from the Persian word Hindu, a name for the region around the Indus River.

By the way, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish also call turkey an Indian bird. And even in Turkish it is called Hindi, namely India.

It is amusing to note that in Hebrew the term tarnegol hodu is used to describe a person who angers easily or is conceited because, like a turkey, the person’s feathers are easily ruffled.

The word hodu is not only a name of a country, but also the plural impera-tive of the Hebrew verb yadah, mean-ing confess, thank, praise and agree, which appears in the Bible more than a hundred times. The word todah, thanks, is derived from the same root.

So, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, en-joying the family gathering around the table with tarnegol hodu at the center of the meal, let the words of the biblical poet — “Hodu lAdoshem ki tov, Praise the Lord, for He is good (Psalms 107:1)” — resonate with joy.

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Boonshoft CJCE will be closed the following dates:»» November 26»» November 27

Sunday, November 22 › Heroes Among Us

2:30PM @ Hillel Academy(305 Sugar Camp Circle, 45409)Hillel Academy students present original vignettes based on Jewish stories and books featuring PJ Library book Boker Tov! Snacks and activities. Free for families.

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This year, we are proud to take part in this global movement. By giving to the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton on #GivingTuesday, you help give our Annual Campaign that extra bump, which pushes us closer to our 2015 goal. Donations made on December 1, as part of #GivingTuesday, will be matched by the Levin Family Foundation, up to $1,000.

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CABF ARTIST ON DISPLAY: Steve MarkmanDuring the month of November-December, the CJCE will display Steve Markman’s

collection of hand-made sailing ship models. Markman built each model, and each required as many as 650 hours. The six models represent over thirty years of work, which Markman started during the early 1980s. In 1997, Markman’s model of the Wasa, the famous Swedish warship that sank in 1628, was displayed alongside the actual ship at the Wasa Museum in Stockholm.

Markman has resided in the Dayton area since 1972. He was an aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB for thirty-two years and retired in 2004. He also is known as a writer, woodworker, antique car enthusiast, martial arts instructor, and commander of the Dayton post of Jewish War Veterans.Sam Lauber’s artwork will be on display at the JCC until December 18.

Join us on Monday, November 9, for a cooking class with Chef Jenn DiSanto, owner of Fresco.3141 Far Hills Ave., Kettering 6–8:30PMCost: $40/personParticipants will make a delicious vegetarian or dairy meal from scratch.

» Limited space available, RSVP by November 2nd.

ABOVE: Charles Putman (L) and James Anthony (R) put their own “spin” on round challahs for Rosh Hashanah. Early Childhood students worked in the CJCE kitchen with Rochel Simon, Judaics specialist, to make challahs to take home for their families to enjoy.» IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING OUR CENTER FOR YOUR CHILD, please contactAudrey L. MacKenzie, Early Childhood Director at [email protected] or 853-0373.


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PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL ACTIVE ADULT EVENTS: 610-1555

Thursday, November 12 › Active Adults Dine Around

NOON @ Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill (8268 N Main Street, 45415)Please RSVP by Nov 10.

Tuesday December 1 › L’Chaim 2015: The Arts

Come Alive in Dayton1:30–4:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCEIn partnership with the CABF

1:30PM – 3:15PM Exhibitors: Local Arts Organizations 3:30PM – 4:30PM Speaker, Eddie Shapiro

Thursday, December 10 › Chanukah Party & Brunch

10:30AM @ Temple Israel (130 Riverside Drive, 45405)In partnership with the Yiddish Club, Jewish War Veterans, and Hadassah

MEDICARE CHECK UP DAYS:› Friday, November 69AM–3PM @ Earl Heck Center (201 N. Main Street, 45322)Call 836-5929 to schedule an appointment.

› Tuesday, November 1710AM–3PM @ Recreation West Enrichment Center (965 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd)Call 433-0130 to schedule an appointment.

› Need Assistance Finding a Food Pantry Near You? Call the United Way In-formation & Referral Line, 225-3000 or Dial 2-1-1.› Are you caring for a loved one who is not in the Greater Dayton area? Visit http://www.ajfca.org/senior-resource-connect/ to find supports and services provided by Jewish agencies nationwide.

IT’S ANNUAL MEDICAREENROLLMENT TIME: OCTOBER 15–DECEMBER 7, 2015Two “Medicare Check Up” days are left here in Montgom-ery County. Medicare counselors from the Ohio Department of Insurance will be on hand to work with people individu-ally to determine their needs and select a plan. This is a free service offered by Medicare and OSHIIP, the Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program.

Please refer to the Sidebar for information about dates, times, locations, and how to schedule an appointment.

Please bring a list of current prescription drugs with you to your appointment.

Strategic Plan UpdateOn September 1, 2015, Lee Sherman, Executive

Director, and Lisa Budlow, Chief Program Officer, from the Association of Jewish Family & Children Agencies (AJFCA) arrived in Dayton. Lee and Lisa facilitated conversations with the JFS Board, Tara Feiner, JFS Director; Cathy Gardner, JFGD CEO; and Judy Abro-mowitz, JFGD President; to help them digest the data from the surveys and informational interviews.

With Lee and Lisa’s assistance, the JFS Board listed priorities for services and addressed capacity and fund-ing issues. On Tuesday, September 2, Lee and Lisa met with the JFS Strategic Task Force (Wendi Pavlofsky, JFS Chair, JFS Board Members Maryann Bernstein and Helene Gordon, Tara Feiner, Cathy Gardner and Judy Abromowitz). This group distilled the data from the day prior and created a draft strategic plan grounded in four strategies. JFS is now working to revise the docu-ment, identifying items that are immediately actionable and those items that are new initiatives that will require further research and planning before implementation.

Once the JFS Board reviews and finalizes the JFS Strategic Plan, we look forward to sharing it with you. We are excited to grow JFS, building on current pro-grams and services to make our community stronger!

The members of the JFS Board did an incredible job and we are grateful for their incredible time, energy, and thought-full conversation. Also, thank you Lee Sherman and Lisa Budlow from AJFCA for their energy, insight and guidance.

BEREAVEMENT SEMINAR

Talking about GRIEFJFS’s fall Bereavement Seminar has begun. There are three remaining sessions. The three remaining sessions at Graeter’s Ice Cream in Oakwood (2412 Far Hills Ave, 45419) are on Thursdays: November 5, 3–4PMNovember 19, 3–4PMDecember 3, 3–4PM

There is no charge for the group. Please call Tara Feiner at 610-1555 to reserve your place.

L’Chaim 2015! The Arts Come Alive in

DaytonJewish Family

Services, in collaboration with the

Jewish Community Center’s 2015 Cultural Arts & Book Festival, is proud to present L’Chaim 2015! The Arts Come Alive in

Dayton. See page 21 for details about this

exciting event!

Active Adults Chanukah BrunchJoin your friends in celebrating Chanukah at the JFS Active Adult Chanukah Brunch. This lively event will take place at Temple Israel on Thursday, December 10 at 10:30AM. The morning will feature a delicious brunch catered by Bernstein’s Fine Catering and musical entertainment with Mary Wyke. Co–Sponsors of this wonderful event are the Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club, The Jewish War Vets and Hadassah. RSVP by December 4 to Karen Steiger, 610-1555. The cost of the event is $10 in advance /$15 at the door. (Reserva-tions are very important!) Your check is your reservation.

5776 is Off to a Sweet Start! Members of our community enjoyed sweet treats and the sounds of Rosh Hashanah at One Lincoln Park (9/10/15) and at Friendship Village (9/17/2015). Thank you Cantor Andrea Raizen from Beth Abraham for leading us in song and Marshall Weiss (ABOVE) and Joe Litvin (LEFT) for blowing the shofar. PHOTO CREDIT: TARA FEINER


UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGNIN MEMORY OF › Alan Rinzler › Brother of Joan Holzinger › Deborah Klass

Judy and Dr. Mel Lipton

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Marcia and Dick Moyer

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Marilyn Scher Andi Rabiner

JEREMY BETTMAN B’NAI TZEDEK FUNDIN HONOR OF › Wedding of Natalie Carne

Jean and Todd Bettman

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› Mamaloshen A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.Shraybn: \SHRAYB-en\ Verb To write

Expression with shraybn: › Es shteyt dokh geshribn: khokhme - shtike It is written: silence is wisdom. The source for this expression is the Mishnah in ‘Avot

3:13 which quotes Rabbi Akiva’ as saying that “seyag le-hokhmah shetikah” - silence preserves wisdom.

› Az men ken nisht shraybn, zogt men az di pen iz shlekht. If one cannot write, one says that the pen is bad (i.e. at fault).

› A goldene pen iz nisht keyn farzikherung oyf sheyn shraybn. [Using] a golden pen does not ensure beautiful writing.

SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTSWe will begin accepting applications for the following grants and scholarships on December 7, 2015:

» Jewish Residential Camp ScholarshipsAvailable to local youths planning to attend a Jewish residential camp program in the summer of 2016. Funding made possible through the Joan and Peter Wells Summer Camp Scholarship Fund and by a generous donation from Carole and Bernie Rabinowitz.

» Jewish Travel to Israel ScholarshipsAvailable to Dayton area teens and young adults, ages 14-21, who plan to travel to Israel during the summer of 2016. Funding made possible through the Wolfe Marcus Trust Youth Travel to Israel Scholarship Fund.

» Jewish Foundation College ScholarshipsAvailable to Jewish undergraduate and graduate students for the 2016/2017 academic year. Funding made possible through the Heuman Scholarship Fund.

» Jewish Foundation Interest Free Student LoansAvailable to Jewish undergraduate and graduate students for the 2016/2017 academic year. Funding made possible through the Cantor Student Loan Fund and the Lillian E. Finn Student Loan Fund.

Look for more detailed information in the December issue.


CALENDAR OF EVENTSTemple Israel Ryterband Brunch Series: Sundays, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Nov. 1: Dr. Fred Krome, UC, Israel Zangwill. Nov. 8: Dr. Richard Sarason, HUC, Experiential Meaning of Passover Seder. Nov. 15: Dr. David Barr, WSU, Jesus’ Reflections in Judaism, Christianity & Islam. Nov. 22: Temple Israel Interim Rabbi Ilene Bogosian, Jewish Tradition, Transition and Transformation. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

ChildrenJCC Children’s Theatre Auditions for Seussical Jr.: Wed., Nov. 4, 6-8 p.m. and Thurs., Nov. 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 400 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. Call Mary Wyke, 610-1795.

FamilyKids Make Shabbat at Chabad: Thurs., Nov. 12, 5 p.m., Kids prepare dinner. Fri., Nov. 13, 5:15 p.m., Shabbat dinner. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

PJ Library & Hillel Academy Present Heroes Among Us: Sun., Nov. 22, 2:30 p.m. At Hillel, 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 277-8966.

WomenJCC Women’s Self Defense: Mondays, Nov. 9-Dec. 21, 6-7 p.m. W. Casey Owens & Ehud Borovoy. 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. $5. 610-1555.

Chabad Women’s Circle Art & Soul - Live Creatively: Sun., Nov. 15, 10 a.m. Painting & Drawing. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

Chabad Women’s Circle Pre-Chanukah Paintbrush Party & Dinner: Sun., Nov. 29, 5:30-8 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. 643-0770.

SeniorsJFS Active Adults Dine Around: Thurs., Nov. 12, noon. Ray’s Wine Spirits Grill, 8268 N. Main St., Clayton. Pay your own way. R.S.V.P. by Nov. 10, 610-1555. JCC Cultural Arts & Book FestFor complete schedule, see Page 20.

ClassesJCC Book Club: Fri., Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay. Hosted by Ellen Lauber at Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. R.S.V.P. to Ellen, 432-0970.

Temple Beth Or Classes: Sun., Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1 p.m.: Adult Hebrew w. Rabbi Chessin. Wed., Nov. 4, 6-9:30 p.m.: Israeli Folk Dancing w. Janifer Tsou. Wed., Nov. 4, 7 p.m.: Men’s Circle. Wed., Nov. 4, 7-8:30 p.m.: Intermediate Hebrew w. Ehud Borovoy. Thurs., Nov. 5, 6-7:30 p.m.: Beginners’ Adult Hebrew w. Ehud Borovoy. Sun., Nov. 8 & 22, 10:30 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Chessin. Thurs., Nov. 12, 1 p.m.: Socrates Café. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400.

Temple Israel Classes: Sundays, 9 a.m.: Tanakh Study w. Rabbi Bogosian. Sundays, noon: Exploring Reform Responsa w. Rabbi Bodney-Halasz. Mondays, noon: Advanced Biblical Hebrew w. Rabbi Bodney-Halasz. Tuesdays, 5 p.m.: Beginner Hebrew w. Judy Heller. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.: Coffee & Commentary, Dorothy Lane Mkt., 6177 Far Hills Ave., Wash. Twp. Wednesdays, noon: Talmud Study w. Rabbi Bogosian. Wednesdays, 5 p.m.: Intermediate Prayerbook Hebrew w. Judy Heller. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.: Weekly Torah Portion w. Rabbi Bogosian. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

DiscussionsBeth Abraham Men’s Club Brunches: Sundays, 10 a.m. $5. Nov. 1: Garry Greene, Raymond James, Investment Concepts. Nov. 15: Veterans brunch w. Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Cooper, Raid on Entebbe. Nov. 22: Retired Prof. Richard Saphire, UD Law School. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 293-9520.

JFS Bereavement Seminars: Thurs., Nov. 5, 19 & Dec. 3, 3-4 p.m. Graeter’s, 2412 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. R.S.V.P. to Tara Feiner, 610-1555.

PerformancesThe Diary of Anne Frank: Nov. 6-15, Fridays & Saturdays, 8 p.m. Sundays, 2 p.m. Dayton Playhouse, 1301 Siebenthaler Ave. 424-8477, daytonplayhouse.com.

Community Events37th Annual Ryterband Symposium: w. Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt Divinity School. Wed., Nov. 4, 3:30 p.m.: The Bible & Israel/Palestine. 7:30 p.m.: Hearing Jesus’ Parables through First-Century Jewish Ears. United Theological Seminary, 4501 Denlinger Rd., Trotwood. For info., call Dr. Mark Verman at Wright State, 775-2461.

JWV Shabbat at Beth Jacob: Sat., Nov. 7, 9:30 a.m. 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. 274-2149.

Beth Abraham Kovod Society Luncheon: Sun., Nov. 8, noon. $60. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 293-9520.

University of Dayton Kristallnacht Observance: Mon., Nov. 9, 5 p.m. Immaculate Conception Chapel. 229-3339.

JCC Cooking w. Chef Jenn DiSanto: Mon., Nov. 9, 6-8:30 p.m. Fresco, 3141 Far Hills Ave., Kettering. $40. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Wright State University Kristallnacht Commemoration: Tues., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. Rm. E163, Student Union. Call Dr. Mark Verman for info., 775-2461.

Beth Abraham Veterans Brunch: Sun., Nov. 15, 10 a.m. W. Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Paul Cooper, Raid on Entebbe. Free for veterans, $5 all others. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. 293-9520.

Temple Beth Or Chanukah Bazaar: Sun., Nov. 15, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Wed., Nov. 18, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400.

28th Interfaith Thanksgiving Service: Mon., Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m. Temple Beth Or, 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400.

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Goldenberg-DonerMelinda and Bill Doner are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Craig, to Jenifer Goldenberg, daughter of Susan and Barry Goldenberg of Marlboro, N.J. Craig received his bachelor’s degree in finance and master’s degree in information systems (MSIS) from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and is an IT consultant with Ernst & Young. Jen received her bachelor’s degree in English, with a concentration in journalism, from the University of Delaware, and is a marketing manager at DuJour magazine. They met during their junior year while studying abroad in Italy, in 2009. Sharing in their happiness are their grandparents, Renate Frydman and the late Charles Frydman, and Sharon and Jay Doner of Indianapolis. The wedding will take place Feb. 20 in New York. The couple currently resides in Manhattan.

Lazer Mangel, who made aliyah (immigrated to Israel) in February 2013, serves as a digital media manager on the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) International New Media Team. The unit has two primary responsibilities: in wartime, to be a constant source of official and factual information; and in peacetime, to write blog posts and articles for the official IDF

blog. “My unit’s responsibility is to be the voice of the IDF on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, our blog, and other web platforms,” Lazer says. He is the son of Devorah Leah and Rabbi Nochum Mangel.

Rachel Bloom applied and was selected to be fall analyst for the Buckeye Capital Investors club through The Fisher School of Business at The Ohio State University. Rachel’s parents are Julie and Dr. Rob Bloom. Their son, Jeffrey Bloom, recently received his white coat

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when he began medical school at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine.

David Klass received Wright State University College of Liberal Arts’ Outstanding Alumni Award. A homebuilding developer, David is a past president of the Home Builders Association of Dayton.

Dr. Michael Halasz was elected vice president of the Ohio Dental Association at its 149th Annual Session in Columbus. He has served as speaker of

the House of Delegates since 2010 and will assume the VP position next September. This election puts him on the officer track to become president-elect in September 2017 and president in September 2018. He was also elected to serve as vice chairman of the Council on Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial Affairs for the American Dental Association, and will become chairman of that committee in November 2016.

Dr. Heath Gilbert was awarded the Warren G. and Ruth P. Morris Optometrist of the Year Award by the Ohio Optometric Association at its President’s Night banquet in Cleveland. Heath’s father, Dr. Ron Gilbert, is a past recipient of the award.

Among the honorees for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Dayton Region Chapter’s 26th Annual National Philanthropy Day Awards Luncheon will be Lisa Hanauer and Susan Spiegel,

nominated by AIDS Resource Center Ohio as outstanding philanthropists; and Miami Valley School ninth-grader Max Mader, nominated by The Levin Family Foundation as outstanding youth in philanthropy, ages 5 to 17. Max is the son of Jenifer and Joe Mader. The luncheon will be held on Nov. 10 at Sinclair’s Ponitz Center.

John Gaglione received The Miami Valley School Headmaster’s Award at its Distinguished Alumni Dinner Award Ceremony on Sept. 26. John began volunteering at MVS 18 years ago when he and wife Dr. Elaine Gaglione’s children, Sarah and Claire, were in the lower grades. Since then, John has helped create the school’s recording studio, with eighth-graders built a wood-fired oven for the Zoringer Environmental Lab, advises middle school students’ human ecology projects, takes photographs during events, and leads the lighting, sound and stage crews for the school’s performing arts presentations.

Beth Abraham Synagogue will honor congregants Matt Arnovitz, Penney Fraim, Marlene Pinsky, and Ralph Williams for their years of dedicated service, at its Kovod Society Luncheon on Nov. 8.

K12 Gallery and TEJAS are now presenting hundreds of works by late artist Brian Appel in their gallery. The works, created over Brian’s lifetime, were donated to K12 Gallery and TEJAS by his sister, Renate Frydman, to provide inspiration for artists of all ages. K12 and

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TEJAS held the opening reception for The Brian Appel Memorial Show on Oct. 25.

Becky Guttstein has accepted a position as senior compensation analyst at Zimmer Biomet in Warsaw, Ind. Taking over from her as president of Temple Beth Or are co-presidents Jennifer Pickard and Roger Pankake.

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The bond of togetherness is a precondition for a lasting nation.

RELIGIONBeth Abraham SynagogueConservativeRabbi Joshua GinsbergCantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea RaizenMonday through Friday 6:50 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Fri., 5:30 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m. Sundays at 8:30 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 293-9520. BethAbrahamDayton.org

Beth Jacob CongregationTraditionalSaturdays 9:30 a.m., Sundays 8 a.m., Sunday through Friday, 7 p.m.7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 274-2149. BethJacobCong.org

Temple Anshe EmethReformFri., Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.Rabbinic Intern Tina Sobo.320 Caldwell St., Piqua. Call Eileen Litchfield, 937-547-0092, [email protected]. Correspondence address: 3808 Beanblossom Rd., Greenville, OH 45331. ansheemeth.org

Temple Beth OrReformRabbi Judy ChessinAsst. Rabbi David BursteinEducator/Rabbi Ari BallabanFridays 7:30 p.m. Kabalat Shabbat 4th Friday, 6 p.m. followed by potluck. Saturdays 10 a.m. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400. templebethor.com

Temple Beth SholomReformRabbi Haviva HorvitzSee Web site for schedule.610 Gladys Dr., Middletown. 513-422-8313. thetemplebethsholom.com

Temple IsraelReformInterim Rabbi Ilene BogosianAssoc. Rabbi/Educator Karen Bodney-Halasz1st & 2nd Fri., 6 p.m. Other Fri., 7:30 p.m. Saturdays 10:30 a.m.130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050. tidayton.org

Temple SholomReformFridays 6 p.m. 2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 399-1231. templesholomoh.com

Chabad of Greater DaytonRabbi Nochum MangelAssociate Rabbi Shmuel KlatzkinYouth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon, Teen & Young Adult Prog. Dir. Rabbi Hershel Spalter. Beginner educational service Saturdays 9 a.m. adults, 10 a.m children. Sundays 9 a.m. Tuesdays & Wednesdays. 6:45 a.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave. 643-0770. www.chabaddayton.com

Yellow Springs Havurah IndependentServices 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10-noon. Antioch College Rockford Chapel. Contact Cheryl Levine, 937-767-9293.

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By Rabbi Nochum MangelDirector, Chabad of Greater Dayton

As many in the media have noted, the bruising fight over the Iran deal revealed a deep split among American Jews.

For many decades, the over-whelming majority of Ameri-can Jews were united in their support of Israel, no matter what their politics.

But in this last summer’s controversy, there was no such consensus. Support of Israel’s stance was no longer a given; there were sharp and angry words and jarred emotions.

Some of this ugliness was predictable. But with antisemi-

tism on a vicious world-wide rebound, with the Middle East in chaos, with a militant Iran vastly expanding its power and influence and reiterating publicly its “Death to Israel” mantra, American Jews cannot afford the indulgence of a bit-ter, rancorous split.

But where can we find some principle, some idea that will reunite us? Clearly, such an idea is not coming from politics. The political rancor in America seems to notch ever upward.

Where is there consensus? It seems that there is no issue too small to serve as a wedge that one side hopes will split off enough people from the other group to their own; and so to gain them an advantage.

Where can we find inspira-tion for community unity?

By keeping up with the times.

Near the end of the last of the Five Books of Moses, we read of an event that took place

Perspectives

Torah Portions

November 7/25 CheshvanChayei Sarah (Gen. 23:1-25:18)

November 14/2 KislevToledot (Gen. 25:19-28:9)

November 21/9 KislevVayetze (Gen. 28:10-32:3)

November 28/16 KislevVayishlach (Gen. 32:4-36:43)

November • Cheshvan/Kislev

ShabbatCandle Lightings

November 65:11 p.m.

November 135:05 p.m.

November 205 p.m.

November 274:56 p.m.

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Living with the times: the hakhel yearevery seven years, including this year that we have just begun.

Just after the end of the Sabbatical year, during the holiday of Sukkot, the people were commanded to gather — men, women, and children — in the Temple to hear the king read to them from the Torah.

The word that means “gather together as one,” hakhel, gives its name to the entire year.

There is a message in this mitzvah. After all, there is already in the Torah a mitzvah to be educated.

We have individual respon-sibility to learn what we need to be a good citizen in God’s universe.

The mitzvah of gathering to-gether, then, was not to impart information or laws that we didn’t already have.

The mitzvah was purely about the need for us to come together as one, in a holy place, as we begin a new cycle in time.

We would reinforce the bonds of affection and connec-tion to our community, to our God and to our tasks which underlie every teaching and every law.

We would go home with the vivid memories of being part of a whole people.

The bond of togetherness is a precondition for a lasting nation.

Laws, by definition, come at points of conflict. We do not need to make a law to be sure to breathe regularly. Therefore, there are always disagree-ments about where exactly to

draw the line, and if there is not enough of an underlying affection for the bonds of com-munity, the ones who lose out in the lawmaking will revolt or bolt.

Therefore, the To-rah itself instructs us that the Torah was not given until we had come to a place of oneness with each other, where we knew ourselves to be bound to each other completely.

The text in Exodus describes the lead-up to the giving of the Torah.

When Israel arrived at Mt. Sinai, where the revelation would shortly take place, the text reads:

They traveled from Refidim and came to the Wilderness of Sinai and encamped in the wilderness; Israel encamped opposite the mountain (Exodus 19:2).

The point of the text reveals itself in the original Hebrew, in which not only nouns but verbs in all their tenses indicate whether their subject is singular or plural.

At the beginning of the sen-tence, the grammar is all in the plural, what you would expect for a group of (very many) people.

But at the very end of the sentence, the verb changes from the plural to the singular, even though still speaking of the same group.

The classic midrash (rabbinic commentary from the Talmud) on Exodus, the Mechilta, draws

out the significance of this change:

They were like one person, with one heart.

As later scholars draw out, this text teaches that Torah requires unity before it even begins. Not uniformity — our tradition is famous for pro-claiming that both sides of a long-fought dispute can be “words of the living God” and that disagreement can be posi-tive if undertaken for the sake of heaven. Not uniformity, but unity.

Our Torah challenges us to be able to set aside egotism, to learn how to disagree without divisiveness. It teaches us how to learn from every member of the community and find the unifying perspective in which all voices can be listened to.

This does not mean that all opinions are equally and indiscriminately accepted. It is just that we do not use our dis-agreements in order to wedge

people apart and so make a selfish, partisan and short-lived gain while be-ing heedless of what this does to the health of the whole com-munity.

We accept upon ourselves the burden of making sense to others of our thoughts, on the basis of that which we share all as one: the gift of the Torah.

Let us align ourselves with the message of this Hakhel year, and strive always to first be at one with our fellow Jews — and our fellow citizens of this world — and only then, in the spirit of unity, seek solutions together to our great challenges.



JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

Bones to butterfliesJew in the Christian World

Literature to share

“Toe bone connected to the foot bone, foot bone connected to the heel bone...” Inspired by the prophet Ezekiel’s visit to the Valley of Dry Bones (Ezek. 37), the lyrics of this spiritual offer a lively invitation to ex-plore eschatology: the theology of the end times.

This futuristic era first ap-pears in Genesis (49:1): “And

Jacob called unto his sons, and said: ‘Gather yourselves to-gether, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days.’”

The prophets established the main tenets of Jewish eschatology that were further developed by the rabbis of the Talmud.

While there is no unanim-ity about the specific events, traditional Judaism generally describes a sequential, non-cat-aclysmic process: a messianic herald, the coming of the Mes-siah, resurrection of the dead, final judgment, and the world to come.

Elijah. In the closing verses of Malachi (3:23), Elijah is char-acterized as the herald of the Messiah: “Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord.”

Our sages wondered: Would Elijah announce the imminent arrival or reveal the Messiah’s actual presence? Would Elijah engage in peacemaking during the last days — a time of social turmoil, economic disaster, des-potic governments, and Israel’s final war with its enemies, the metaphorical Gog and Magog, in preparation for the Messiah’s arrival — or simply highlight the Messiah’s actions as a peacemaker?

Messiah. Unlike the divine deliverer or sacrificial savior of Christianity, the Jewish Mes-siah, literally anointed one, is a human being. A charismatic leader and living example of Jewish teachings, the Messiah will redeem the people Israel and bring about the perfection of the world in an era known as the Messianic Age.

According to our sages, he

Noah’s Bark by Stephen Krensky. This fanciful picture book about how the animals got their unique voices is a clever preschooler’s version of the Noah story. Woven throughout the delightfully illustrated tale are the value of community and the significance of one’s own unique attributes. Rich with opportunities for interaction, it works equally well in groups and one on one.

After Abel and other stories by Michal Lemberger. While

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will come either when he is most needed (an overwhelm-ingly evil world) or when he is most deserved (an exception-ally good world).

Resurrection. The only Jewish end-of-times doctrine has been physical resurrec-tion of the dead. With biblical roots in Ezekiel, resurrection attests to God’s promise that the Jewish people will liter-ally come to life again. It also reinforces the notion of God’s ultimate justice, enabling all the righteous throughout history, not just those alive at the time of redemption, to share in the world to come. It also reflects the Jewish understanding that the body and soul work in tan-dem: alone, neither can sin nor be righteous.

Judgment. The Book of Dan-iel (12:2) describes judgment following resurrection: “Multi-tudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.”

Many of our sages pondered the time between death and judgment. Shammai deter-mined that the dead remain inactive in the grave or a “pit” until resurrection, a view echoed centuries later by Saa-diah Gaon.

Hillel argued that souls are immediately punished or rewarded after death, then resurrected for a final judgment at the end of times.

Ultimately, all the righteous are rewarded in Paradise, a place of bliss and spiritual per-fection; the wicked are tempo-rarily punished in Gehinnom, variously described as a place for soul-searching and remorse or a fiery punishment pit; and the truly evil are either perma-nently incarcerated there or destroyed.

Olam haba. Not to be con-fused with the Messianic Age, olam haba (the world to come)

is the eternal spiritual afterlife and the completion of Creation.

Christian eschatology is not so straightforward. Despite shared roots in both Jewish and Christian biblical texts, Chris-tian denominational views dif-fer significantly. Here’s a brief summary of key concepts, with no sectarian distinctions. Jesus as Messiah ushered in an era of Christian believers known as the Church Age. It will come to an end with the Rapture, when all believers living and dead are physically resurrected to Heaven with the Second Com-ing of Jesus as Messiah.

Seven years of Tribulation follow, an era of cataclysmic disasters during which a char-ismatic Antichrist (the Beast, the Devil/Satan), hailed as the world’s savior, tempts humans to destruction and rebellion against biblical values. During this time, a portion of the Jews who are restored to the Land of Israel turn to Jesus as Messiah, and all new believers are resur-rected.

The Lord binds up the Anti-christ in a bottomless pit during the great battle of Armaged-don, followed by 1,000 years of peace and security under the rule of Jesus from Jerusalem. In the waning days of the world, Satan is released from his imprisonment, again deceives the nations of Gog and Magog (East and West), and attempts to destroy the believers and the city of God. In a final battle, the universe is destroyed and Satan is cast into a lake of fire along with all the wicked and non-believers. God creates new heavens and a new earth for eternity.

While Jewish and Christian teachings about the purpose and process of the end times are markedly different, their single point of agreement might be summed up by the following metaphor by author Richard Bach: What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.


FOODTHE JEWISH INTERNET

Business ethics: You be the judgeLast month, we looked at

how modern ethical business questions can be solved using traditional Jewish principles. Now it’s your turn to be the judge.

Questions1. A friend invited you as his

guest to a fund-raising dinner. A year later, you receive a bill because your erstwhile friend reneged on paying. Are you on the hook?

2. A nearby house is for sale. You’d like to sell your similar house and want to know how much they’re asking. Can you pose as a potential buyer and ask?

3. A bachelor hires the services of a professional matchmaker. He goes out with a recommended woman but things don’t click. He does think she would be perfect for a friend of his. He’s right. Who gets the fee — the professional matchmaker or bachelor num-ber one?

4. A bird lover set up feeding stations and resting places for

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birds in his yard. The neigh-bors complain that the flocks of birds dirty their adjacent prop-erties, make excessive noise, and ruin their gardens. Do they have legal recourse?

5. A woman runs a play-group in her basement. One day, a child finds a pair of scis-sors and proceeds to cut holes in a friend’s shirt. Can the parents demand payment from the teacher?

6. You lent your neighbor money. He honestly does not have funds to repay you, but he has a house, a car, furniture and clothing. Is he obligated to sell personal assets to repay the loan?

7. You’ve applied for a job. So has someone who is desti-tute. Should you back out and allow a needy person to take the job instead of you?

8. Someone pledges $300 to your charity but gives you a check for $360. Do you have to contact him to confirm he intended to do so?

9. You bought a printer that carries a manufacturer’s one-year warranty. When you plugged it in, it did not work at all. The store insists that you ship the printer to the manu-facturer for replacement. Can you demand that the store exchange it?

10. You’re thirsty. Can you help yourself to a very pricey hotel room beverage and replace it later with the same drink which you buy for less?

Here are the recommended answers. Go to the links for the complete responses and Jewish sources.

Keep in mind that like many things in halachah (Jewish law), it may be possible to find an argument to support a contrary view.

Answers1. No. It is true that a ben-

eficiary must pay for whatever benefit he receives even if it was not authorized. But in this case, there was an understand-ing between a diner and the organization that the diner was not going to pay for the meal.

Consequently, the organiza-tion may not charge him for his meal even though his “friend” was negligent in paying his commitments (bit.ly/jethics10).

2. No. It is prohibited by the Torah to ask someone who is interested in selling or leasing something how much he or she is charging for that item if the person asking has no interest in purchasing the item and is only interested in knowing the price for other reasons. A person who does ask in the manner stated above, transgresses the prohibition in Leviticus 25:17, that “A man may not oppress (by misleading) his friend.”

If you were to inform the merchant or salesman at the beginning of the conversation that you are only calling to price an item but have no in-tention to purchase it, it would be permitted (bit.ly/jethics11).

3. Bachelor number one. The matchmaker is permitted to stipulate to a client that if the information provided to the cli-ent results in any match at all, the matchmaker or agent will receive the entire fee. However, this must be made conditional before the information is pro-vided (bit.ly/jethics12)

4. Yes. Beyond the responsi-bility not to do actual damage, a person is responsible not to do things on his property that will adversely impact his neighbors’ property in a direct manner.

This applies not only to monetary damage; the rabbis of the Talmud also instituted various neighborly rights relat-ing to privacy, noise, smell, air, light and dampness.

Even if the person is willing to pay should damage occur, he is not allowed to create the potential damage (bit.ly/jeth-ics13).

5. No. Although a teacher should certainly make an ef-fort to protect her students’ belongings, there is no indication that she accepts the liability of being a shomer (guardian) upon herself.

Her primary focus is to teach the children and not to pay such close attention to their belong-ings. Addi-tionally, par-ents are aware of the likeli-hood that the clothing their children wear to school may get ruined (bit.ly/jethics14).

6. Possibly. In principle, a person is required to repay his loan even from personal assets. However, the Torah teaches that we allow the person to retain a certain minimum amount for his own support.

A person would be obligated to sell his house in order to repay his loan, even if the loan is relatively small compared to the value of the house. How-ever, if he can rent the house, he might not be required to sell it, but can repay from the rental income (bit.ly/jethics15).

7. It would be a nice gesture, but no. The Talmud says it is praiseworthy to give someone who is poor precedence in obtaining a benefit.

“A poor person who is seek-ing after a piece of bread and someone else comes along and takes it,…that person is consid-ered wicked (Kiddushin 59a).”

However, you usually can’t be certain that person will get the job if you pull out. The bottom line: you are under no ethical obligation to drop your candidacy on behalf of some-one who seems more needy. But it would be a thoughtful act if it seems likely the job would go to them (bit.ly/jeth-ics16).

8. No. In monetary cases, the obligation is on the owner of the money to exercise caution. Consequently, the recipient has no obligation to confirm

with the other party since one may presume that it was given intentionally as a gift.

Nevertheless, when there are grounds to suspect that the other party may have made a mistake, it is considered a pious act to confirm that the other party did not err (bit.ly/jethics17).

9. Yes. Although the seller of your printer also bought the printer in a closed box and had no way of knowing about the defect, he is still responsible to sell working items to his cus-

tomers. There-

fore, since the printer did not work at all and was defective from the start, the sale is void and the seller has to exchange it or refund the money.

This would apply even if the seller would be unable to reclaim the money from his supplier, such as if the supplier went out of business (bit.ly/jethics18).

10. No. It is prohibited to steal with the intent to repay the owner. Accordingly, since the hotel intends to make mon-ey by selling beverages and has determined that guests will be willing to pay the inflated amount due to the convenience of having cold drinks available in their rooms, it is clear that they would not permit you to take a bottle to drink and replace it with another one, since that prevents them from making their intended profit.

Interestingly, the action seems to be permissible if the thirsty patron is unaware of the halachic principles involved (bit.ly/jethics19).

So, how did you do?0-3 Correct: Don’t quit your day job.

4-6 Correct: You understand a bissel about Jewish ethics.

7-8 Correct: Here comes the judge.

9-10 Correct: You’re a modern- day Solomon!

Mark Mietkiewicz writes about resources for Jewish life to be found on the Internet. Contact him at [email protected].

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Rosalind Karen Badiner (nee Shapiro) age 67 of Englewood, passed away after a long illness surrounded by her loving family and friends on Oct. 8. Mrs. Badiner was a former Dayton public school teacher at several elementary schools. A graduate of Colonel White High School’s class of 1966, she received both her baccalaureate and master’s degrees in education at Wright State University. Nobody was ever a stranger to her and she loved to open her home up to others and make them feel welcome. She was also an avid mah-jongg and card player, a member of the Dayton Chapter of Hadassah, and active in the Englewood Senior Citizens group. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Isadore Badiner, and parents, Paul Shapiro and Elaine Meltzer Shapiro of Dayton. Mrs. Badiner is survived by her brother, Stuart Shapiro, of

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Lawrence Eugene Briskin, 86, passed away Oct. 14. He was born in Youngstown to Joseph and Bessie Briskin in 1929. Mr. Briskin attended The Rayen School, and earned degrees from The Ohio State University, Youngstown State University and Case Western Reserve. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Korean War. In 1958, he married Mona Ann Lazar, who predeceased him. Mr. Briskin was retired from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base where he served as a logistician. He was a long-standing member of Beth Abraham Synagogue and a past president of the Jewish War Veterans. Mr. Briskin was passionate about his family and many topics including economics and politics. He leaves behind his loving wife of 40 years, Dena Sureck Briskin, along with his children Jeanne (Daniel Dinsmoor), Jacqueline (Kenneth Pinkus), Alex (Jane), Lisa Jacobs (Larry) and Richard Comerchero; grandchildren Benjamin, Daniel and Emily Briskin, Austin and Olivia Jacobs, Ari, Gabriel, Joseph and Lily Dinsmoor, and Olivia Mona Pinkus, as well as several nieces, a nephew and cousins. He was also predeceased by his sister, Leatrice Phillips. Please consider donations to Beth Abraham Synagogue, Jewish War Veterans, Hadassah or the charity of your choice.

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Sometimes history reads like a suspense novel; that’s exactly how to describe Dan Ephron’s new book, Killing a King: The Assassina-tion of Yitzhak Rabin and the Re-making of Israel.

It is because Ephron served as the Jerusalem bureau chief for Newsweek and the Daily Beast and lived in Israel on and off for nearly two decades that he has the necessary under-standing to provide a riveting account of the two years lead-ing up to as well as the assas-sination of Israel’s past prime minister.

In addition to his firsthand experi-ence — he was at the square when Rabin made his fateful speech — Ephron reviewed hours of tapes produced in the interrogation of the assassin, and worked with Rabin’s daughter, Dalia, to solve a previously unanswered conspiracy question.

Ephron will talk about Kill-ing A King on Dec. 1 as part of the JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest.

He says he set out to write a murder story about Yigal Amir, a radical 25-five-year-old Jewish college student, who

The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present author Dan Ephron on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE.

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Two decades on, understanding Israel through the lens of Rabin killing

in 1995 assassinated Rabin with only a handgun and a simple plan.

Rabin had become con-troversial as a result of his efforts with PLO Chairman

Yasser Arafat and Israel Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to produce the Oslo Accords, agreements designed to broker land for peace between the

Palestinians and Israel. The three men received

the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for their work on the accords.

Amir saw the accords as an unforgiveable betrayal.

“The story of the assas-sination is rich in human drama,” Ephron says. He sees parallels between the

assassinations of Rabin and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

In terms of the current climate in the Middle East Ephron believes that “the assassina-tion was so pivotal, anyone interested in Israel then and now, in understanding the

Israeli-Arab conflict, will get something from the book.”

The reason Ephron chose to write Killing a King 20 years after the assassination is that he believes the event remains the single most consequential one in Israel’s recent history.

The murder of Rabin led to a dramatic shift in Israeli poli-

cies. Although Rabin had a 27-year career as a soldier, serving among other roles as chief of operations during Israel’s War of Independence and, in 1964, as chief of the general staff overseeing Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, he was a pragmatist.

Ephron describes Israel’s current prime minister, Ben-jamin Netanyahu — who was first elected prime minister in 1996 and served three years — as the opposite of Rabin, with “a deep reluctance to make territorial concessions to the Palestinians.”

“The book is not a counter-factual history. It’s impossible to know what would have happened. In some ways, the most exasperating thing about the murder is that we’ll never know how close Rabin would have come to forging peace with the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world.”

Ephron takes on the role of modern-day forensic detective when he transports Rabin’s blood-spattered dress shirt and undershirt, worn the night of the assassination, from Israel to Arizona so a firearms special-ist can examine holes in the garments.

In addition to the two bullet holes made by Amir’s handgun in the back of the shirt, there is

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a round hole about the size of a dime in the front. While many conspiracy theories surround Rabin’s as-

sassination, Dalia Rabin has been intrigued by the hole in the front of her father’s shirt.

She wondered if the hole indicated a cover-up designed to hide a blunder made by the Israeli detail assigned to protect her father.

Ephron describes the various laboratory tests used to solve the mystery. Among them was firing a 9 mm Beretta loaded with Winchester hollow-point bullets — like the weapon and ammunition used by Rabin’s assassin — in order to compare the pattern with the unexplained holes. Read the epilogue of Killing a King to discover the answer.

In terms of political mysteries, Ephron says he is no expert in solving the hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians.

He recognizes that the developments have be-come complicated after Rabin’s death. His assess-ment of the situation is that Israel is more secure now than it has been in decades because there is no functioning Syrian Army and Iraq is not cur-rently a threat.

Additionally, the peace deals with Jordan and Egypt have held up despite the dramatic events that have occurred during the past five years.

Ephron does cite that from the Israeli security chiefs he’s “interviewed over the years — and you can see this in their public statements — the fact that Israel has not reached an accommodation with the Palestinians is itself a threat to Israel’s long-term security.”

Ephron sees parallels between the assassinations of Rabin and U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Yitzhak Rabin1922-1995

The Dayton Jewish community’s memorial service for Yitzhak Rabin, Sunday, Nov. 5, 1995 at Temple Israel (L to R, behind children): Joe Bettman, Rabbi P. Irving Bloom, Ralph Heyman, Barbara Sanderow, unidentified, NCCJ Dir. Sarah Harris, Gen. Wesley Clark, U.S. Rep. Tony Hall

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The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on Nov. 4, 1995 coincided with day four of the Dayton Peace Accords. Hammering out the accords at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, their negotiating teams, and American negotiators including late Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, and Gen. Wesley Clark.

Those who organized the Dayton Jewish community’s memorial service for Rabin invited the negotiators. Along with a standing-room gathering at the Nov. 5 memorial service at Temple Israel were Clark, Croatia’s ambas-sador to the U.N. and military attache, Yugoslavia’s (Serbia’s) deputy foreign minister, and Sven Alkalhaj, Bosnia’s ambassador to the United States, a Jew from Sarajevo.

According to an article in the November 2005 Observer on the 10th anni-versary of the accords, the negotiators arrived just before the service began and sat in front. Dayton’s Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim leaders took part on the program, and Clark related that Rabin had extended him-self for peace — a statement likely directed toward the negotiators.

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Novelist Tess Gerritsen will discuss her new mystery, Playing with Fire, as part of the JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest, on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE.

She’ll also be interviewed at Centerville Public Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Rd., on Friday, Dec. 4 at 10:30 a.m. R.S.V.P. online at wclibrary.info.

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By Pam Ferris-OlsonSpecial To The Observer

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen hadn’t planned to write a book about the Holocaust. But one night in Venice, Italy, she had a nightmare. In it, she played her violin with the unsettling consequence of transforming a baby into a glowing-eyed monster.

“I knew there was a story here,” she says. “I didn’t know anything beyond that little nugget of an idea.”

But as she walked around Venice later that day, she says the entire plot revealed itself to her. It crystallized when

Tess Gerritsen

she stood at Venice’s Ghetto Nuovo. There, she read a memorial plaque bearing the

names of the more than 200 Jews of Venice who were deported to Nazi death camps in 1943-44.

On the day she visited, the square

seemed pleasant and peace-ful. It was difficult for her to believe that terrible events had once taken place there.

“You would think that frightening echoes remain in those walls, some trace of hor-ror, but no. They’re just walls. That somehow bothers me, that evil can come and go without leaving any footprints.”

She’ll talk about her new-

est novel, Playing with Fire, on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 as part of the JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest, in conjunction with Washington Centerville Public Library.

Gerritsen is the author of the Rizzoli & Isles series featuring Boston Police Detective Jane Rizzoli and Chief Medical Examiner Mau-ra Isles. The Rizzoli & Isles books were successfully reformulated for television — the basis of the television show of the same name, which began its sixth season in September on TNT.

She describes Playing with Fire as a mystery about a boy who loved a girl, and how the world came between them.

Professional violinist Julia Ansdell purchases an old piece of music — the Incendio waltz — during a visit to Venice.

Entranced with the music’s mournfulness and feverish arpeggios, Julia isn’t prepared for the havoc the waltz wreaks upon her life. She becomes obsessed to find out what she can about the music’s origin. Her journey takes her back to Italy and to the Risiera di San Sabba compound, where

she unearths the unset-tling truth about the piece.

Julia learns that Risiera di San Sabba was origi-nally built by the Ger-mans as a transit camp

and detention center for Italian prisoners during World War II.

The prison camp was even-tually equipped with a cremato-rium for the ex-ecution of Jews. As Julia unlocks these secrets, she also finds herself involved in a murder with a distinct possibility that she may

become the next victim.A violinist herself, Gerrit-

sen loves traditional Irish and Scottish music. About halfway through the creative process of writing Playing with Fire, she woke up with the melody for Incendio in her head. She thinks

the descriptions she wrote of the haunting music worked their way into her subcon-scious.

“Suddenly the melody itself was there,” Gerritsen

said. “I had never planned to compose any music to go along with the story, so it was quite a surprise when Incendio came to me, almost as a gift from the universe.”

In the book, Incendio is the composition of Lorenzo, a

talented violinist, after the love of his life, Laura, is taken to Risiera di San Sabba.

Gerritsen says she has no personal connection to the Holocaust, but believes there are lessons in it that belong to everyone. History, she says, is best learned when it is felt.

“Emotions stick with you much longer than mere facts ever could. Readers will re-member the tragic story of Lo-renzo and Laura, and because of that, they will remember that Italy had its Holocaust, too.”

History, she says, is best learned when it is felt.

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By Marc KatzSpecial To The Observer

Woody Hayes wrote a book more than 40 years ago called You Win With People.

The school he’s most famous for coaching, Ohio State, still does that, as Columbus Dispatch sports writer and Dayton native Bill Rabinowitz points out in his latest book, The Chase: How Ohio State Cap-tured The First Col-lege Football Playoff Championship.

This book, like his Buckeye Rebirth — chronicling the 2012 undefeated and on-probation team — is not a rehash of old game stories. It is a background look at the play-ers and coaches involved in Ohio State’s remarkable run to a championship.

“It’s really a story about rela-tionships and people,” Rabi-nowitz said. “It’s not a football book about football. It’s a book about people who happen to be involved in football.”

Rabinowitz will tell his story and that of the storied 2014 Buckeyes on Nov. 5 as part of the JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest.

Writing books about football wasn’t on Rabinow-itz’s to-do list. When he took on the task of writing the book on the 2012 season, he labored for more than four months to piece together the story with fresh material, under tight deadlines.

He knew as last season pro-gressed, another book might be in the offing. When Ohio State beat Oregon in the champion-ship game in Arlington, Texas, he wasn’t as happy as some thought he would be on the media bus back to the hotel.

He said he was nearly moved to tears because of the book pressure approaching.

“Now, I knew what I was in for,” Rabinowitz said. “When you know you have to go back into that ‘book cave,’ it’s a bad feeling. I had no desire to do any books, and to have to do

The JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest presents Columbus Dispatch Ohio State Football writer Bill Rabinowitz on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Center for Jewish Culture and Education, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. Tickets are $5 in advance, $8 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE.

Bill Rabinowitz

Second Buckeyes book for Rabinowitz

them in four months?” Still, the story was unprec-

edented, even for Ohio State, which has won national cham-pionships before.

This one was different because it involved the first playoff and an early-season loss

to Virginia Tech.Also, Ohio State

had to use two unproven quarter-backs to replace injured two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Braxton Miller.

J.T. Barrett did so well, Miller was hardly missed until Barrett broke his ankle in the Michi-gan game. Cardale

Jones took over from there with even more spectacular results.

There was also the shocking disappearance and ultimate suicide of defensive lineman Kosta Karageorge surrounding the Michigan game.

It wasn’t until the 2012 season that Rabinowitz thought he was watching something interesting enough for a book. He thought that first book was

it, but the publisher was watching last sea-son, too.

“I thought there was no need for another book,” Rabinowitz said.

Then the Buckeyes beat Wis-consin in the Big Ten champi-onship game, and Ohio State was in the mix for the four-team playoff.

“Are you going to write an-other book?” OSU coach Urban Meyer asked Rabinowitz when he saw him after the Wisconsin game.

Rabinowitz told Meyer, “Yeah, you’re going to make me write another book, aren’t you?”

Nothing was certain, though. Rabinowitz was in close touch with Arkansas athletics director Jeff Long, in charge of the play-off selection committee. There were still some doubts Ohio State would make the cut.

For details, you’ll have to read the book, or visit with Rabinowitz on Nov. 5.

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