The Dayton Jewish Observer, October 2015

Published by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton

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The National Conference for Commu-nity and Justice will host its 38th Annual Friendship Dinner on Monday, Oct. 26 at Sinclair Community College’s Ponitz Center. Among the honorees for this year’s dinner are community volun-teer Dr. Martha Moody Jacobs and attorney Dennis Lieberman.

The program begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.

NCCJ’s mission is to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

According to NCCJ Executive Director Mary Tyler, the Friend-ship Dinner provides the organization with approximately one-third of its operating revenue each year.

“Without it, we couldn’t offer our youth activities, provide our

educational programs for adults, or continue our advocacy work designed to build an inclusive community,” Tyler said.

To R.S.V.P. for the dinner, call NCCJ at 222-6225.

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Join our Diabetic Support GroupTuesday, Oct. 13, 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. (2nd Tuesday each mo.) with

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Friendship Fall Bazaar Saturday, Oct. 17 from

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Featuring the famous

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Wednesday, Oct. 21, 5:30-6:30 p.m.We meet the third Wednesday of each month in our conference room near the Coffee House. Please enter at Door 18. For more information, call Pam Hall, 837-5581 ext. 1269.

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In The Atrium Dining RoomBeth Abraham accepting Women of Valor nominations

The Beth Abraham Synagogue Sister-hood is now accepting nominations for its 2016 Women of Valor Luncheon, to be held on May 4. Eligible for nomination are Dayton-area Jewish women who make significant contributions to their Jewish and/or secular communities.

Chairs for the 2016 event are Maryann Bernstein and Marlene Pinsky. Nomina-tion forms are available at bethabraham-dayton.org and at the synagogue office. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 8. For more information, call the syna-gogue at 293-9520.

The Stein and Sobol families dedicated a new Torah scroll at Chabad of Greater Dayton on Sept. 10. Shown here (L to R) seated: Florence and Dr. Arnold Sobol, and Sofer (Ritual Scribe) Rabbi Moshe Klein. Standing: Ellen Stein, Dr. Warren Sobol, Dr. Alvin Stein, Jody and Dr. Todd Sobol. As part of the celebration, community members were able to inscribe the final letters in the Torah scroll.

Dennis Lieberman

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NCCJ Annual Friendship Dinner

Beth Or goes for Simchat Torah laughs

Temple Beth Or will present its Sec-ond Annual Stand-Up Comedy event, featuring a beer garden in the sukkah, on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 5 p.m.

Touring comedians who will perform on the program to celebrate Simchat Torah are Karen Bergreen, Shaun Eli, and Jon Fisch.

The cost is $50 per person and includes light hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine. R.S.V.P. to the temple at 435-3400. Comedian Shaun Eli

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Is Steve Katz a rock star? The founding guitarist of

Blood, Sweat & Tears and three-time Grammy winner wrote his memoir to answer that question. His conclusion: Who cares?

Speaking by phone from his home in Connecticut, Katz said

that “Who cares?” was the original last line of his book,

Blood, Sweat and My Rock ‘n’ Roll Years: Is Steve Katz a Rock Star? But his editor talked him out of it.

He’ll share stories and songs on a tour that will bring him to Dayton’s Dublin Pub on Oct. 14 to open the JCC’s Cultural Arts and Book Fest.

Katz, 70, said it was time to put down on paper all he has experienced — including how his Jewish humor helped him survive rock ‘n’ roll.

“As soon as my brain starts going, it’ll be great to have an index,” he joked about his age.

The JCC will open its Cultural Arts & Book Fest with Steve Katz on Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Dublin Pub, 300 Wayne Ave., Dayton. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, and are available at jewishdayton.org, by calling 610-1555, or at the Boonshoft CJCE.

“If anyone has any questions, I can carry it around and look it up.”

It could also free him from having to make small talk at dinner parties, he said. Instead, he can simply answer: “You should read the book— and pass the salt.”

Like his live performances, the book takes audiences on a musical journey with a young Jewish boy from Queens. We tag along with him and his brother on a trip to Greenwich Village, where Katz will meet Dave Van

Ronk, who Katz writes was “a walrus of an Irishman” who taught Katz how to back-pick Candy Man.

Katz will perform Green Rocky Road live in tribute to his early teacher.

Among the other songs he’ll perform are Richland Woman Blues by Mississippi John Hurt, Sometimes In Winter from Blood, Sweat & Tears and, from Blues Project, Steve’s Song, along with the story behind how the song got misnamed.

The next 20 years of his life are filled with the big-gest names in music: Bob Dylan slept on the couch where Katz took guitar lessons; he produced Lou Reed’s bestselling LP Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal; Jimi Hen-

drix asked if he could borrow Katz’s horn section; Katz sat naked in a hot tub with Joan Baez; and as a rep for Mercury Records, he passed on signing a young Irish band named U2.

Katz isn’t the only one with stories. While he jokes that even his mailman doesn’t recognize him now, people do: couples tell him they were married to You’ve Made Me So Very Happy; a young girl came backstage to say her favorite song was Blood, Sweat & Tears’ recording of Laura

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“To affect people like that is a fabulous thing,” he said. “To go through life and know you’ve touched them with music — especially so.”

For the last 30 years, he hasn’t cared about the rock life, saying that his next memoir could be titled, My Cars Were Always Slow and My Drugs Not So Great.

“Living a normal life — it’s more fun than the rock star life of drugs, infidelity and fast cars,” he said.

Today, he lives with his wife of 27 years, Alison Palmer, a ceramist. His days are filled with both her visual arts busi-ness and his music, which he said are great complements in their lives.

“She sees things in a certain way, and I hear things in a certain way, and we match notes,” he said.

On the book jacket, a quote by Chrysalis Re-cords co-founder Terry Ellis says that Katz was a nice Jewish boy who became a star who became a nice Jewish gentleman. Katz said that while he hasn’t been religious since he was a child, his Jew-ishness has been a defining influence.

“I’ve taken it with me all my life, mainly through my humor and my sit-down-on-my-knee-sonny-boy, Al-Jolson, tear-in-my-eye sensibility,” said Katz, who is known for his ballads.

But is he a rock star? Even at the height of his stardom, a visit to his

parents’ home to eat overwrought pot roast and get clean linens would put doubt in his mind, he said.

“I didn’t know if I was a rock star or a kid who never grew up,” he said.

But on Oct. 14, when he picks up his guitar and stands again before the mic under the lights, there will be no doubt — a bit of both makes for great stories and songs.

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Second and third graders at Hillel Academy Jewish day school received their first Chumash (printed Torah text and commentary) at a ceremony in September, in front of their parents and the student body. Shown here, reading the first verse of Torah at the ceremony (L to R): Ranon Ginsberg, Kahlil Knick, Chaya Simon, Lily Ray, Eden Lubow, YiYi Kudera, Avi Gilbert, and Ava Wright.

One of the last vestiges of Dayton’s old Jewish neighbor-hood, Rinaldo’s Bake Shoppe at 910 Fairview Ave., closed its doors on Sept. 13 — the eve of Rosh Hashanah — at the start of the Jewish New Year. Co-owner Anna Stolfo told The Observer that Dayton’s only kosher bakery held on until the beginning of the Jewish New Year to provide baked goods for its longtime Jewish customers.

“We appreciate all the years of support, but it’s just become too difficult to keep running the bakery,” Anna said.

She and her husband, baker Rinaldo Stolfo, established the bakery in 1970. In its heyday, police would direct the heavy traffic at the bakery when members of the Jewish community would pick up their orders for the High Holy Days. As the Jew-ish community has shrunk in size and shifted to the suburbs south of Dayton over the past decade, Rinaldo’s has struggled to stay open. Anna said their son, John, recently suffered a third heart attack and wasn’t able to return to work. “For us, it’s a well-deserved retirement,” she said. — Marshall Weiss

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By Ron Kampeas, JTAWASHINGTON — Inside

the congressional offices, there were soft-spoken recrimina-tions, tears, even the occasional consoling hug. Outside, under a blazing sun, there were whoops, full-throated cries against ap-peasement and condemnation of President Barack Obama’s “pink kaleidoscope.”

The final throes of the battle over the Iran nuclear deal were delivered with volume, fury and in the quiet agonies of friendships riven by the deal.

On Sept. 9, meetings in congressional offices between American Israel Public Af-fairs Committee activists and staffers for Democrats who had supported the Iran nuclear deal often devolved into tears, according to those present. In at least one case, an AIPAC staffer was so inconsolable that a congressional staffer reached out spontaneously for a hug. The message from AIPAC, staffers said, was one of “disap-pointment.” AIPAC would not comment on the content of the meetings.

Some 300 Orthodox Union-affiliated rabbis joined the 1,000 or so AIPAC activists in the last-minute lobbying effort against the deal.

Inside the Iran deal battle: hugs, pink kaleidoscopes, Trump

“When you have an oppor-tunity to scream in dissent and you are silent, you have done wrong,” Rabbi Shalom Baum, the president of the Rabbinical Council of America, said at a news conference.

Meanwhile, on the West Lawn outside the Capitol, several hundred demonstrators at a rally organized by the Tea Party Patriots vocally protested the deal in 90-plus degree heat. The headliners included Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson, the patriarch of real-ity TV’s Duck Dynasty show.

Palin, the former Alaska governor and onetime Republi-can vice presidential nominee, drew cheers when she slammed Obama for negotiating with Iran, “the No. 1 braggadocious sponsor of state terrorism,” by her accounting.

“Only in an Orwellian Obama world full of sparkly fairy dust blown from atop his unicorn as he’s peeking through a pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty,” she said.

Trump, the front-runner in Republican presidential polls, sounded some similar notes.

“They rip us off, they take our money, they make us look like fools, they don’t want Israel to survive,” he said of the gov-ernment in Tehran. Of the gov-ernment in Washington, Trump said, “We are led by very, very stupid people. Very, very stupid people.”

Trump’s remarks, however, focused less on the deal and more on himself and his cher-ished achievement of not losing: “We may have so much winning if I get elected that you may get

bored with winning,” he said.By the afternoon of Sept. 10

it was over: Senate Democrats blocked a vote on the deal, effec-tively handing Obama victory on his signature foreign-policy initiative. Republicans failed to garner the 60 votes necessary to end debate on the measure and bring it to a vote. Voting against the motion to end debate were 42 Democrats — one more than needed.

Implementation of the agreement announced in July between Iran and six major powers to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the easing of sanctions is likely to begin in the coming weeks.

“This vote is a victory for di-plomacy, for American national security, and for the safety and security of the world,” Obama said in a statement.

AIPAC tried hard to find some victory amid the failure of the effort to kill the nuclear deal.

“While the American people deserved a direct up or down vote on the resolution of disap-proval, the 58 senators who spoke out against the agreement and voted to invoke cloture suc-ceeded in their effort to express opposition to the deal,” AIPAC said in a statement following the Senate vote.

AIPAC appears ready to move to the next step and as-sume a posture of watching implementation of the nuclear deal like a hawk.

“Congress and the executive branch must now maintain con-stant vigilance concerning Ira-nian compliance with the deal and be ready to move quickly against any Iranian effort to advance its nuclear quest,” AIPAC’s statement said.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Arab Americans advocat-ing on behalf of Syrian refugees have found some unlikely allies in their effort to resettle families from the war-torn nation: influential Jewish groups.

Over the last few weeks, HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, has launched a petition drive calling on President Barack Obama to swiftly open America’s gates to an additional 100,000 Syr-ians, and the president of the Union for Reform Judaism wrote to the president and congressional leaders call-ing for a coordinated interna-tional response.

“Our great nation must re-spond immediately by provid-ing safety, food, shelter, refuge, and dignity,” wrote the Reform leader, Rabbi Rick Jacobs. “How can a nation built by refugees from political persecu-tion turn our back on refugees fleeing religious and political persecution?”

Omar Hossino, the Wash-ington-based Syrian American Council’s public relations direc-tor, singled out HIAS as being particularly helpful.

“HIAS has been consistently calling for more resettlement and pushing back against the discriminatory rhetoric oppos-ing opening the doors to Syrian refugees,” he said.

On Sept. 10, HIAS president Mark Hetfield held a confer-ence call with American Jewish organizational officials to talk about his agency’s decision to join with Arab-American lead-ers in critiquing U.S. policies that limit the numbers of refu-gees settled in the United States to about 70,000 per year.

Only about 1,500 Syrian refugees have been admitted since the start of the civil war in 2011. Obama announced Sept. 10 that the United States soon would take in 10,000 refugees, but Hetfield said that number was inadequate.

“We are dealing with a global humanitarian crisis to which the entire world must re-spond,” he said in a statement issued within hours of Obama’s announcement. “If Germany

Arab Americans look to Jews for help on Syrian refugees

can open its doors to 800,000 asylum seekers, the U.S., with a population four times the size of Germany’s and a history as a nation of immigrants and refu-gees, can take 100,000.”

Hetfield appealed to regional Jewish groups to act on the grassroots level to help absorb refugees.

“The Jewish voice is very influential here, very important and very much needed,” Het-field said.

Akram Abusharar, a Gaza-born U.S. immigration attorney who handles approximately 80 Syrian asylum cases per month, said HIAS’s involvement was a boost to his cause.

“The Jewish community has more capacity to move the politicians on this issue than the

Arab-American commu-nity,” he told JTA in an interview.

Responding to lob-bying from HIAS, the administration moved in February to provide exemptions for people who provided limited or insignificant support to Syrian rebels who do not pose a danger to the United States.

But more recently Hossino has tracked an uptick in opposition to bringing Muslim im-migrants to the United States — especially among Republican can-didates and members of

congress. In television appearances,

Republican presidential can-didate Carly Fiorina said the United States has “done its fair share” when it comes to the refugee crisis. Sen. Rand Paul asserted that the U.S. “can’t accept the whole world” and should adopt a cautious stance toward resettlement.

Hetfield, in the conference call, said concerns about the Muslim and Arab identity of the refugees are misplaced, reminding listeners of similar reasoning when some nations in the 1930s blocked Jewish im-migration from Germany.

“To confuse the refugees with the people that they’re fleeing,” he said, “is to make the same mistake that kept Jews out.”

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By Uriel Heilman, JTANEW YORK — Ever since

the Pew Research Center re-leased its landmark 2013 survey of U.S. Jewry, the study has become central to debates about everything from intermar-riage to Jewish education. Now comes a new treasure trove of data from Pew about Orthodox Jews, extrapolated from the data amassed for the 2013 study (from 3,475 interviews with Jews conducted that year).

Though Orthodox Jews comprise only 10 percent of all American Jews, their share of the U.S. Jewish population is growing rapidly. And the implications are profound. “If the Orthodox grow as a share of U.S. Jews, they gradually could shift the profile of American Jews in several areas, including religious beliefs and practices, social and political views and demographic characteristics,” the new study says.

Here are some of the top findings in Pew’s new report, A

Most Orthodox Jews are Republicans and 11 other findings from Pew

Portrait of American Orthodox Jews.

Orthodox Jewry is growing rapidly. Among parents who have children, the Orthodox birth rate is 4.1 children per family, compared to 1.7 among the non-Orthodox. And almost half of all Orthodox parents have four or more children (48 percent), compared with just 9 percent of other Jew-ish parents.

Not everyone be-lieves in God with absolute certainty. Orthodox Jews rep-resent the only Jew-ish denomination in which a majority of members believe in God with absolute certainty (96 percent of haredim and 77 percent of modern Orthodox). Among Conservatives the figure is 41 percent and among Reform 29 percent.

Modern Orthodox Jews make more money than other

Jews. Thirty-seven percent of modern Orthodox Jews report household incomes of $150,000 or more per year, compared to 29 percent of Reform Jews, 24 percent of haredi Jews, 23 percent of Conservative Jews and 22 percent of Jews of no de-nomination. On the poorer end of the spectrum, 43 percent of haredim report less than $50,000

annual income for their household, compared to 30 percent of modern Orthodox and 31 per-cent of other Jews.

Orthodox Jews are mostly Repub-licans. The share of those who identify as Republicans or lean Republican was, as of 2013, 58 percent of

haredim, 56 percent of modern Orthodox, 27 percent of Conser-vative and 17 percent of Reform.

Some Jews who call them-selves modern Orthodox skip key rituals. Ten percent of mod-

ern Orthodox Jews in the survey said they did not fast on Yom Kippur, 22 percent don’t always or usually light Shabbat candles, and 17 percent don’t regularly keep kosher. On the question of whether they attend religious services weekly or more often, 67 percent of modern Orthodox Jews responded in the affirma-tive, compared to 60 percent of haredim and only 6 percent of all other Jews (13 percent among Conservative, 4 percent among Reform and 3 percent among Jews of no denomination).

Higher educational degrees are rare among haredim. About

38 percent of haredim have a high school diploma or less, and only 25 percent have a bachelor’s degree or higher. By contrast, 60 percent of non-Orthodox Jews have a bach-elor’s degree or higher. Among modern Orthodox, levels of education are more similar to other Jews than to haredim: 65 percent of the modern Ortho-dox have a bachelor’s degree or higher, and 21 percent a high school diploma or less.

Only 11 percent of haredim live outside the Northeast. Overall, 43 percent of America’s Jews live in the Northeast, with

An Orthodox family in a Brooklyn

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Orthodox Jewry’s share of the U.S. Jewish population is growing rapidly.


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By Ben Sales, JTATEL AVIV — Secular and

haredi Orthodox Israelis differ on many things, but there’s one thing both sides agree on: When it comes to religious af-fairs, the government is failing.

That’s one of the findings of an annual survey of Israeli religious identification and at-titudes toward religious policy released Sept. 11 by Hiddush, a 6-year-old organization that promotes religious freedom in Israel.

The survey found that 95 percent of secular respondents are dissatisfied with the government’s handling of religious issues, with large majorities favoring civil marriage or civil unions and official recognition of non-Orthodox conversions.

But the survey also reported dissatisfaction with religious policy among 81 percent of haredi Orthodox Israelis, despite the fact that haredi par-ties regained control over the Religious Affairs Ministry and the powerful Knesset Finance Committee following the March elections. Since then, the parties have set about rolling back several reforms adopted by the previous government, removing the teeth from a law drafting haredi men into the military and repealing a con-version reform passed last year.

“When the haredim are unhappy, they’re unhappy about something different than why the secular (Israelis) are unhappy,” Rabbi Uri Regev, the Hiddush CEO, told JTA. “To many of them, Israel is not giv-ing them enough, not enforcing their prerogatives enough, not enforcing Shabbat observance.”

Survey: broad dissatisfaction with Israeli religious policyCovering a broad spectrum

of questions on religious policy and identification, the Hiddush survey reported large majorities of Israelis supporting religious policy change, as it has every year since the poll began in 2009. Sixty-four percent of Jew-ish Israelis support recogniz-ing Conservative and Reform

conversions — not just Orthodox, as is cur-rently the case.

Nearly three-quarters of Israelis want public transit on Shabbat. And 86 percent of respon-dents support haredi men performing mili-tary or civilian national service.

Sixty-four percent of Jewish Israelis want Israel to enact civil marriage or civil unions, though 63 percent said they would still choose an Orthodox ceremony for them-selves — including three-quar-ters of Conservative Jews.

“There is clearly a growing, solid, overwhelming majority of Israelis who are unhappy about the way religion and state are linked and impacting the lives of individuals and the state,” Regev said. “The public clearly does not like what the Israeli government has pro-vided it with.”

The survey also found a rise in support for same-sex marriage — with 64 percent in support, compared to 56 percent last year. The jump follows national legalization of gay marriage in the United States and a stabbing attack at the Jerusalem gay pride parade in July that killed a 16-year-old girl. But a substantial portion of Israel’s governing coalition opposes same-sex marriage, making its passage unlikely.

Israelis’ long-held desire for religious reform hasn’t led to corresponding government ac-tion. According to Regev, that’s because Israelis, when voting, place less of a priority on reli-gion than security or econom-ics. That was especially true ahead of this year’s election following a war in Gaza and much public discussion about skyrocketing housing prices.

Religious issues didn’t even register in a March pre-election poll that asked about the coun-try’s most pressing concerns.

23 percent in the South, 23 percent in the Midwest, and 11 percent in the West. The Northeast has 61 percent of the modern Orthodox population, 43 percent of the Conservative population and 36 percent of America’s Reform Jews. Only 1 percent of haredim live out West.

Orthodox Jews marry rela-tively young. Three-quarters of haredi Orthodox Jews marry by age 25 (75 percent), about half of modern Orthodox Jews marry by then (48 percent), while only about one-quarter of Reform Jews and 32 percent of Conservative Jews marry by that age.

They send their kids to Jewish schools. Four out of five Orthodox Jewish parents with kids at home have at least one child in yeshiva or Jewish day school, and about three-quarters of Orthodox Jewish adults (73 percent) attended a Jewish day school or yeshiva as children (81 percent among haredim, 57 percent among the modern Orthodox). By contrast, only 17 percent of other Jews went to yeshiva or Jewish day school growing up.

Haredim hardly have any non-Jewish friends. About 97 percent of haredim say all or most of their friends are Jewish, compared to 65 percent of mod-ern Orthodox and 26 percent of other Jews.

Jews of all denominations are proud to be Jewish. In all denominations, at least 93 percent of adherents say they’re proud to be Jewish, compared to 87 percent among Jews of no denomination. However, while 99 percent of Orthodox Jews say they have a strong sense of belonging to the Jewish people, the figures are 92 percent for Conservative, 78 percent for Reform and 53 percent among Jews of no denomination.

Nor have issues like marriage and conversion been subjects of major public protest.

In 2013, religious policy briefly rose in prominence as Yesh Atid became the Knesset’s second-largest party, promis-ing to draft haredim and push for civil unions. But those issues faded as Israel entered last summer’s war in Gaza. In this year’s elections, the new kingmaker was Kulanu, a party largely focused on economics. Yesh Atid lost eight seats and joined the opposition.

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By Ami EdenOne conspiracy theory making the rounds is that

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s various Iran-related confrontations with President Barack Obama are part of a Sheldon Adelson plot to turn American Jews into Republican Party voters in 2016.

Even if one rejects this theory out of hand, the question still stands: Will Obama’s championing of the Iran deal trigger a significant realignment, with Jews jumping to the GOP in 2016?

The answer is maybe — but probably not, judg-ing from the latest annual Jewish survey from the American Jewish Committee. (Before jumping in, keep in mind that the survey’s margin of error is 4.7 percent — more than some of the shifts discussed.)

Let’s start with Obama and the Iran deal. The survey would seem to give Jewish GOPers reason for optimism.

Yes, the majority of American Jews back the deal, but only by a sliver — 50.6 percent approve and 47.2 percent disapprove. And the level of disapproval is much more intense: 16.4 percent approve strongly and 34.2 percent approve somewhat, versus 27.4 percent disapprove strongly and 19.8 percent disap-prove somewhat.

About 63 percent of American Jews are not confident that the deal will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and 42.8 percent believe Israel will be more threat-ened because of the deal.

The numbers get really small when it comes to seeing a best-case scenario: Only 4.9 percent are very confident that the deal will prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and 17.9 percent believe Israel will be less threatened.

About 53 percent approve of the way Obama is handling United States-Israel relations, with only 8.9 percent saying they approve strongly — low numbers in light of the 70 percent or so of the Jewish vote that he won in 2012.

You’d think all that would open the door to big Republican gains in 2016. Sure enough, AJC’s 2015 survey found 37.4 percent of American Jews back-ing a Republican presidential candidate. So if that number holds, GOP Jewish donors and activists will have plenty to smile about — that would amount to the best Republican showing since Ronald Reagan took 39 percent of the Jewish vote against Jimmy Carter in 1980.

On the other hand, that’s not much of a GOP boost considering Obama and Netanyahu are in the middle of a full-frontal, existential slugfest. Obama won’t be on the ticket. Odds are it will be Hillary Rodham Clinton, with her deep bench of longtime Jewish backers, validators, donors, etc. She talks tougher on Israel than Obama. If you believe Mi-chael Oren, her chemistry with Netanyahu is better.

Clinton was by far the most popular presidential candidate among Jews — 39.7 percent identify her

By Julia KaldoriBUDAPEST — As our car rolled slowly toward Buda-

pest, we saw a huge group heading in the opposite direc-tion on the highway just outside the city: Hundreds of people quietly walking in the breakdown lane, marching toward freedom and peace.

I couldn’t tell if the other drivers were lifting their heads or not, but I couldn’t look away, paralyzed by a scene that reminded me of the stories my grandfather told me about his march from Budapest to the concentration camp at Mauthausen.

Barbed wire fences are again being built in Europe to stop the flow of refugees. Thousands of men, women and children drowned at sea on their way to Europe across the Mediterranean. In Budapest, refugees were led to trains they were promised would bring them to the West, but instead were taken to a so-called registration camp. In the Czech Republic, refugees had identification numbers written on their hands until the process was stopped amid a public outcry, the procedure too reminiscent of the tattooed numbers on concentration camp prisoners. And European political leaders, foremost among them Hun-garian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, warn of the refugees overflowing Europe with their “different” cultures and religions.

These scenes from Europe in 2015 sound like echoes of the Holocaust. But Europe’s biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II makes many Europeans blind in their historical eye, which in turn provokes concern among European Jewish leaders. At a recent demonstration in Bu-dapest against the inhumane handling of this crisis by the Hungarian government, antisemitic insults where shouted by right-wing counterdemonstrators. When a group of people is stigmatized and isolated in refugee camps and abused for the political purposes of right-wing parties, we are not far from the images of Auschwitz and Theresien-stadt.

Recent events pose a challenges to the Jewish commu-nities of Europe, so it is perhaps not surprising that many Jewish leaders and individuals are actively involved in providing aid to the refugees. Personally, when I see how people are fished out of trains on the basis of their racial profile, or locked up in camps behind barbed wire, or used as scapegoats to maintain political power, I’m on the one hand grateful for my own life, for my healthy child, warm home, and the love of family and friends.

But I also can’t sit at home and look away. As a jour-nalist, I try to raise as much awareness as I can. And as a private person I try to extend a hand, helping the refugees find a peaceful moment in the railway stations or on the highway from Budapest and Vienna.

Since August, when I joined the volunteers — many of them Jewish — helping refugees in Budapest, I’ve come to realize how many of them need someone to listen to them as much as they need the medicine, blankets and kosher (hence, also halal) food that we distribute among them. When you look into their eyes, their plight stops being a demographic issue.

I know they come from countries where anti-semitism and terrorism are rampant. But the people determined to kill Jews don’t need this stream of refugees to infiltrate Europe. They were doing just fine before it started. The refugees are mostly fleeing ISIS barbarism, our common enemy. If we Jews help them, our actions could build bridges to a more secure future. Maybe I’m being naive, but I need to be if I am to help make a bright future for my 6-year-old son.

Julia Kaldori is the editor of Wina, a monthly magazine serving the Viennese Jewish community. She was born in Hungary.

Does Iran deal rift mean Jews will go GOP in 2016?

as their first choice. Next up was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with 17.8

percent. The socialist in the race almost doubled the top Republican, Donald Trump, who registered 10.2 percent. (Side note: The Donald is in a tighter race when it comes to Jewish Republicans than Repub-licans overall — Jeb Bush is a close second in the Republican field with 8.7 percent.)

Dig a little deeper and you find that the underly-ing data hasn’t shifted much. In the 2013 survey, 47 percent of American Jews identified as liberal, 35 per-cent as moderate/middle of the road and 20 percent as conservative.

This time around it was 45.1 percent liberal, 33.8 moderate/middle of the road and 20.9 percent conservative. There is a little more movement on the Democrat-independent-Republican question, with those identifying with the GOP jumping from 15 percent to 19 percent.

Those identifying as Democrats dropped from 52 percent to 48.6 percent and independents stayed the same at about 32 percent.

The more pertinent question behind all of these numbers is how much any Republican Jewish gains

are attributable mainly to the grow-ing numbers of Orthodox Jews and their gradual two-decade shift to the GOP column as opposed to a wider Jewish realignment.

The survey data also suggest that Israel-Iran issues are unlikely to be the main decision point for Jewish voters.

About 75 percent identified a domestic issue as their top concern, with nearly 42 percent citing the economy.

National security finished second at 12.3 percent, barely beating out health care (12 percent) and income

equality (11.6 percent). U.S.-Israel relations (7.2 percent) edged out Su-

preme Court appointments (5.6 percent). Republicans can hope that they can make inroads via these vari-ous domestic issues.

But previous polling results suggest that Jews skew relatively liberal on these issues — hence why previous Republican efforts to flip the Jewish vote have generally focused on Israel and the Middle East).

Assuming that the GOP nominee is someone with solidly conservative positions, once again a domestic-based case to Jewish voters will likely be a hard sell.

One final survey topic that might shed light on where the kishkes of American Jews are at: anti-semitism in Europe. About 90 percent said it was a problem, with 45.5 percent calling it a very serious problem.

Where it gets interesting is the follow-up ques-tion, about the extent of the problem on the far right versus the far left. Twenty percent agreed that most people on the far right were antisemitic — double the 10 percent who said the same about the far left.

In short: There is just enough here to fuel an-other election cycle-worth of speculative articles on whether this is the year that Republicans finally make major strides with Jewish voters. But if you’re look-ing to bet some money, you’re better off playing the odds at one of Adelson’s casinos.

Ami Eden is CEO and executive editor of JTA.

What I saw on the migrants’ road to Budapest

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Sussman-PrinceJanis and Philip Sussman of Richmond are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Robin Sussman, to Avi Prince, son of Suzanne and Dr. David Prince of Teaneck, N.J. Robin graduated from Harvard University, where she earned a doctorate in chemistry. She works for the bio-pharmaceutical company Biogen in the Boston area. Avi is a graduate of the University of Maryland, where he earned a bachelor of science in computer engineering. He is employed by Microsoft as a software engineer in Cambridge, Mass. Robin is the granddaughter of the late Mildred and Leo Fox, and the late Sylvia and Rudolph Lehman, and the late Meyer Sussman. Avi is the grandson of Sheila and Dr. Jack Prince of Boca Raton, Fla., and the late Marilyn Prince and the late Vivian and Robert Freund. Sharing in the couple’s happiness are Robin’s sister, Margo Sussman-Ramp, her brother, Jack Sussman, and Avi’s sister, Leora Prince-Shamouilian, and brother, Eitan Prince. The couple met at the Harvard Hillel and currently lives in the Cambridge area. The couple is planning a November 2015 wedding in New York.

Dersu Jay GoorskeyDersu Jay Goorskey, son of Chao and David Goorskey, will be called to the Torah on Oct. 10 as a Bar Mitzvah at Beth Abraham Synagogue. Dersu is a seventh-grade student at Watts Middle School in Centerville, where he participates in Science Olympiad. He has a good ear for music and has been learning violin since he was 5 years old. He is starting his second year as a member of the Dayton Philharmonic Youth String Ensemble. In his spare time, he is often found reading a book, drawing cartoons, making stop-motion Lego animations, computer programming, or doing an electronics project.

Sophie Ilene SkolnickSophie Ilene Skolnick, daughter of Larry Skolnick, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 24 at Temple Israel in Memphis, Tenn. To mark this occasion, Sophie will conduct the worship and Torah services, read from the Torah, chant her Haftorah and deliver a Bat Mitzvah message to the congregation. Sophie is a seventh grader at Hutchison School and is a Duke TIP Scholar. She is passionate about dance, and studies both advanced ballet and pointe at the Markell School of Dance in Memphis. Sophie spends her summers at Camp Sabra in Missouri. For her Bat Mitzvah project, Sophie has been working with young dancers, ages 3 to 7, and volunteered her time as an assistant dance instructor for the past six months. Sophie is the granddaughter of Arlene and Dr. Judah Skolnick of Louisville, Ky.

Robeson-HorwitzJon and Beverly Horwitz are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Brian, to Deena Robeson of Chicago. Deena is a 2010 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is employed as an account manager with Newco Media in Chicago. She is the daughter of Menucha and Nosson Robeson of West Rogers Park, Chicago. Brian, a 2010 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, is a senior account executive with Career Builder LLC in Chicago. His paternal grandparents are Charlotte Vangrov Horwitz and the late Dr. Alan Horwitz of Dayton. Maternal grandparents are the late Fannie and Richard Nierenberg of Dayton and Sarasota, Fla. The couple is planning to be married in Chicago in October 2016.

Deena Raquel GreenDeena Raquel Green, daughter of Esther and Jeff Green, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 10 at Temple Israel. She is the sister of Adam Green and granddaughter of Sylvia and the late David Singer of Toronto, and the late Glenna and Lowell Green of Enon. Deena is in seventh grade at McKinney Middle School in Yellow Springs. She plays club soccer, basketball, and softball, and is the only girl in her recreational baseball league. Awards include MLK Peacekeeper of the Year, and a highly-competitive calendar art contest open to all Dayton area schools. Deena’s hobbies are piano and fiber arts including weaving, sewing and knitting. For her mitzvah project, Deena knit and crocheted more than 50 hats for babies in neonatal care.

Charlie, Rebecca, and Laila Blumer qualified for the Ohio State Fair with their 4-H projects. Charlie completed projects on beekeeping, American foods, and laundry; Rebecca worked on Growing With Others; and Laila was

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Dayton Children’s Hospital will host Taking Control: Managing IBD Decisions, a program of the Southwest Chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, on Thursday, Oct. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. Specialists for the free, informational panel will include Dr. Kelly Sandberg of Dayton Children’s Hospital, Dr. Michael W. Gorsky of Dayton Gastroenterology, and Dr. Anjali Morey of Digestive Specialists. Crohn’s and Colitis are prevalent in Jews of Eastern European Ashkenazi descent. To register, call 513-772-3550.

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Boonshoft CJCE will be closed the following dates:»» October 5– Shemini Atzeret»» October 6– Simchat Torah

Thursday, October 8 › Holocaust Liberators

Memorial & Statehouse Tour 7AM @ Boonshoft CJCE7:45AM @ Englewood MeijerThe JCRC invites you to join us on a tour of the Ohio Statehouse, visit the memorial on the Statehouse grounds and end with lunch at Katzinger’s (cost on your own). If you keep kosher, a boxed lunch may be pre-ordered. Transportation by Buckeye Charters. RSVP by September 25. $15 per person.

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2–4PM @ The Flower Shoppe (Far Hills Ave 45419)In partnership with JCRC. Guest speaker Bob Feferman, Outreach Coordinator for United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), will be talking about the Iran nuclear issue and the impact on Israel. Dessert reception.

RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free.

PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS UNLESS NOTED: 610-1555, [email protected]

Change. Transformation. Renewal.partnered with the passionate and committed leadership of Mary Ann Bernstein, Helene Gordon and new JFS chair Wendi Pavlovsky on the development and implementation of a strategic planning process.

Look for a renewed, strong, and responsive Jewish Family Services, guided by these strategies, in the coming year.

The changes in personnel occurring in the Jewish Community Center gave us a chance to find new talent in our community. What resulted is the hiring of two new professionals who bring creativity, talent and excitement to the robust programs and activities of the JCC. Casey Owens is focused on building our summer camp program and strengthening the activities of our teens. Mary Wyke has taken the reins of a vibrant Cultural Arts program and will be adding her touch of creativity.

Adding to the changes in the JCC is the leadership of the board. We welcome the insightful and engaging input of Alan Gabel.

One other change was obvious as we look to a successful year ahead. Fundraising is primarily the building of relationships with our donors. Not only is it important to understand why someone gives, but reinforcing the significance of this mitzvah is a continual process. In a changing world, with critical and somewhat different needs to sustain our Jewish communities, we looked at how we should

» Is your child age 6 months–8 years signed up for PJ Library? Contact Caryl Segalewitz at [email protected] to dive into a sea of Jewish reading!

Have you seen the speaker lineup for the 2015

JFNA General Assembly? We can’t wait to hear

from the fantastic topics they’ll be covering this

year! To learn more, visit generalassembly.org

change to meet those needs.

The New Year will be

filled with promise as Cheryl

Carne takes on this important

task of donor relations. Her

continued commitment to

this community is evident

each day, and together with

our donors we can only grow

stronger.

Adding to the strength of

our fundraising efforts over

the past year was our new

development director, Caryl

Segalewitz. Her impassioned

and visionary leadership

helped us achieve a

significant success for our first

President’s Dinner, chaired

by Debby Goldenberg.

Caryl will continue to guide

our development strategies

towards a vibrant annual

campaign as well as a robust

corporate sponsorship

program in the coming year.

Finally, preparing for the

future rests on the gains

of the past. We thank the

outgoing chairs of our

JCC and JFS boards for

their incredible service

and leadership. We also

know that Shirley Gilbert

(Immediate Past JCC

Chair) and Helene Gordon

(Immediate Past JFS Chair)

will continue to guide us

in other capacities, and we

recognize how much they

did to build our tomorrow.

Cathy L. GardnerEXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/CEOJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DAYTON

In the first seven months of 2015 we experienced five retirements and two staff moving on to other organizations. Our gratitude for the contributions of these individuals has been expressed and will continue to be felt for many years to come. Their legacy has helped us grow.

Whether by design or necessity, these activities have prepared the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton for the New Year ahead. With the guidance and wisdom of our JFGD board, JCC and Jewish Family Services leadership, we responded with renewed strength to the changes of the past year.

The transformations in Jewish Family Services began early in the year as we embarked on a close review of our activities in order to align programs to our mission. We continued with a multi-dimensional strategic planning process. In the meantime, we found in our community a resource that would guide us in the years to come. Tara Feiner, the new JFS director, has

“PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE RESTS ON THE GAINS OF THE PAST”


Jewish Community Center

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Thursday, October 8 › BBYO Jumps for Joy

6–8PM @ Sky Zone Dayton (976 Senate Dr, 45459)$15 per person.

Wednesday, October 28 › BBYO “Strikes” Out

6–8PM @ Poelking Woodman Lanes (3200 Woodman Dr, 45420)$5 per person.

ONGOING CLASSES › TAI CHI

Thursdays 4–5PMSeptember 17–December 17Instructor Debra Stewart. Cost: $5 per class

› YOGAThursdays 5–6PMSeptember 17–December 17Instructor Debra Stewart. Cost: $5 per class.

› INSANITYMondays & Wednesdays 5–6PMSeptember 21–December 17Instructor Lauren Baumgarten. Cost: $5 per class.

› RENAISSANCE ARTFridays 10AM–NOONOctober 2–December 17Instructor Barb Stork. Cost: $50 per person.

CABF OPENING EVENTWednesday, October 14 › Steve Katz

7PM @ Dublin Pub (300 Wayne Ave., 45402)$10 in advance / $15 at the door

Sponsor: 10 Wilmington Place

» MORE CABF EVENTS ON PAGE 21

CABF ARTIST ON DISPLAY: Sam LauberSam holds a BA degree in sociology from State University

of New York at Buffalo and a masters degree in social work from the University of Michigan.

Sam is a self taught amateur photographer. He has won numerous photography contests including 1st, 2nd, and honorable mention both in the States and on military installations in Europe, e.g., Germany and Holland. Published work includes: » Photographers Forum Magazine – Best in Collage Photography – 5 times» The Ohio State Fair, 2009 and 2012» International Library of Photography» The Exposure Award, Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Sam Lauber’s artwork will be on display at the JCC until December 18.

Cure the Back to School Blues

with !This year Dayton’s BBYO teens are gearing up

for an awesome fall full of friends and activities,

starting with a trip to Sky Zone Dayton on

October 8 from 6-8PM, $15 per person. Jump to

your heart’s content and make new friends!

And don’t miss a chance to score

some strikes with BBYO at Poelking

Woodman Lanes in Kettering on

October 28 from 6-8PM, $5 per

person.

Fun and fall go together at JCC Early Childhood! We have made some fantastic additions to our already strong curriculum for this school year. Children now enjoy bi-weekly sessions with music and dance specialists, Ms. Mary Wyke, who visits the classrooms with her guitar, and Ms. Jennifer Mollenhauer, who meets children in our multi-purpose room to teach Israeli dancing. We also made an exciting change in our 4 and 5 year old classroom, combining the two to form the Mishpacha (family) class. Our four dedicated teachers collaborated on this innovative adventure to allow children to take advantage of three separate spaces throughout the day, allowing for learning centers that are larger and more enriched than before and the children are thriving in their new environment!

» IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EXPLORING OUR CENTER FOR YOUR CHILD, please contact Audrey L. MacKenzie, Early Childhood Director at 853-0373 or [email protected]

We went INSIDE the

Meadowlark kitchen

with Chef Wiley and

her crew!

LEFT: Vicki Bernie and

Stacey Soifer show

how they feel about

beets as they prepare

borscht.

RIGHT: Aida Merhemic

learns how to make

fresh mozzerella from

scratch.

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

ACTIVE ADULTS:Thursday, October 1 › Dine Around

NOON @ Mimi’s Cafe (4402 Walnut St, 45440)Please RSVP by 9/25.

Sunday, October 18 › Yiddish Club

1:30 PM @ Oakwood Starbucks (2424 Far Hills Ave.) “The Melody of Yiddish in Our Speech.” Rachel Steindel Burdin will present her linguistic research to our Yiddish Club members. Contact Judy Woll, 470-0113.

Tuesday December 1 › L’Chaim 2015: The Arts

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

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

Thursday, December 10 › Chanukah Party & Brunch

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

› Need Assistance Finding a Food Pantry Near You? Call the United Way Information & 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.

On August 21, Daniel Ravitch presented his experiences, Behind the Iron Dome, to residents of One Lincoln Park and members from the community at large. There was a great turnout and all were engaged in the presentation and the conversations that followed. PHOTO CREDIT: Caryl Segalewitz

› Mamaloshen A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.Toyb: \TOYB\ Noun A dove, pigeon

Expression with toyb: › Ven dos meydl iz eydl, iz dos vaybl a taybl. If the girl is refined, she will be a dove of a wife.

› A vaybele iz a taybele un a tayvele. A wife can be either a little dove or a little devil.

› Zey lebn vi di toybn un raysn zikh vi di kets They live like doves and fight like cats.

IT’S ANNUAL MEDICARE ENROLLMENT TIME: OCTOBER 15–DECEMBER 7, 2015

Medicare’s Annual Enrollment is when people on Medicare can review their current pre-scription drug and/or Medicare Advantage Plans and decide whether to retain their current plans or to select different ones that will go into effect January 1, 2016.

This review process occurs between October 15 and December 7 and is encouraged be-cause plans can and will change, as will individual’s medical and prescription drug needs.

Three “Medicare Check Up” days will be offered here in Montgomery County to assist you with this plan review and selection process. Medicare counselors from the Ohio De-partment of Insurance will be on hand to work with people individually 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.

Dates for Montgomery County’s Check Up Days are:NORTH » Friday, October 30, 9 AM–3 PM Vandalia Senior Center21 Tionda Drive (off Dixie Drive in Vandalia) Call 898-1232 for an appointment.

&» Friday, November 6, 9 AM–3 PMEarl Heck Center201 N. Main Street, EnglewoodCall 836-5929 for an appointment.

SOUTH » Tuesday, November 17, 10 AM–3 PMRecreation West Enrichment Center (for-merly Hithergreen Senior Center)965 Miamisburg-Centerville Road Call 433-0130 for an appointment.

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

Other than Check Up Days, anyone seeking additional Medicare information or as-sistance with plan selection can contact Connie Blum, OSHIIP’s County Coordinator, at 274-4717, [email protected]. In addition to the above locations, people can be seen by appointment at Kettering Connection at Town and Country Shopping Center (296-3330) and at locations in Huber Heights and Beavercreek.Connie BlumOSHIIP CERTIFIED MEDICARE COUNSELOR

JFS Strategic Plan Update: TODAH RABAH!

JFS wants to say THANK YOU to those who partici-pated in our online survey. The Association of Jewish Family and Children Agen-cies (AJFCA) is working with JFS and the JFS Board to an-alyze the survey data, along with interview results, and to develop our strategic plan for moving forward to bet-ter support our community. Keep an eye out for updates in the November issue of The Dayton Jewish Observer.

BEREAVEMENT SEMINAR

Talking about GRIEFAre you dealing with grief and need to talk about it? Do

you feel you need to begin to live your life once again?

JFS is offering its Bereavement Seminar again this fall. This seminar is an opportunity to talk about your experiences and feelings in a safe, confidential, non-judgmental environment. This program is designed to offer guidance and emotional support with informative, structured time as well as time for participants to share.

Rabbi Bernard Barsky is facilitating the 5-session Bereavement Seminar. All sessions are on Thursdays, 3–4PM and meet in the private room at Graeter’s Ice Cream in Oakwood (2412 Far Hills Ave, 45419).

L’Chaim 2015: The Arts Come Alive in DaytonSave the date!! On December 1, JFS is coordinating with the Cultural Art & Book Fest. L’Chaim 2015: The Arts Come Alive in Dayton will feature exhibitors from various arts organizations in Dayton followed by speaker Eddie Shapiro, author of Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater. Keep an eye out for more details about this amazing event.

October 8October 22November 5

November 19December 3

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


› Lenore Zusman Claire and Oscar Soifer

› Allan Rinzler Beverly and Jeffrey Kantor

ROBERT L. CLINE AND RITA Z. CLINE BIKUR HAVERIM FUNDIN HONOR OF › Retirement of Hyla Weiskind

Meredith A. ClineIN MEMORY OF › Bert Lieberman

Meredith A. Cline

BEN AND DOROTHY HARLAN CHILDREN’S FUNDIN HONOR OF › New grandson to Gail and Dr. Stuart Weprin

Marla and Dr. Stephen HarlanIN MEMORY OF › Brian Appel › Allan Rinzler

Marla and Dr. Stephen Harlan

ACTIVE ADULTS FUNDIN MEMORY OF › Deborah Klass

Sylvia Linsker

JEREMY BETTMAN B’NAI TZEDEK FUNDIN MEMORY OF › Brian Appel › Allan Rinzler › Jennifer Marwil Cohen › Larry Shpiner

Jean and Todd Bettman

ADDISON CARUSO B’NAI TZEDEK FUNDIN MEMORY OF › Brian Appel

Patty and Mike Caruso

JOAN AND PETER WELLS FAMILY, CHILDREN, AND YOUTH FUNDIN MEMORY OF › Brian Appel › Ellie Brown › Harriet Moscowitz › Larry Shpiner

Joan and Peter Wells

JEWISH SENIOR SERVICESIN HONOR OF › Retirement of Hyla Weiskind

Shirlee and Dr. Ron Gilbert › Marriage of Melissa and John › Marriage of Ariel Grubbs and Jonah Guttman

Dorothy Englehardt

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICESIN HONOR OF › Special birthday of Marilyn Scher › Special birthday of Bobbie Kantor › Marriage of Larry Glickler and Charles

Quinn Renee and Dr. Frank Handel & Family

› 60th birthday of Susan Spiegel Debby and Dr. Robert Goldenberg

› 95th birthday of Walter Klarin Bobbie and Jerry Kantor Brenda and Prof. Scott Meadow

IN MEMORY OF › Ellie Brown

Joan and Robert Cooper Louisa and Philip Dreety Katie and Aaron Carroll Carole and Tim Hrastar Rose Rodriguez Marilyn and Everett Young Dr. Evangeline Andarsio Rose Ann and Barry Conway

UNITED JEWISH CAMPAIGNIN HONOR OF › Retirement of Hyla Weiskind

Carolyn and Mel CaplanIN MEMORY OF › Al Youra

Dale Goldberg and Mark Dlott Melinda and Bill Doner Marilyn and Larry Klaben & Family Beverly Louis Debby and Dr. Robert Goldenberg Catherine and William Clark Felice and Mike Shane

› John Coit, brother of Mary Rita Weissman Melinda and Bill Doner

› Brian Appel Mary and Dr. Gary Youra

› Ellie Brown Felice and Mike Shane

PJ LIBRARYIN HONOR OF › Birth of Davina Kress, granddaughter of

Marcia and Ed Kress Marla and Dr. Stephen Harlan

IN MEMORY OF › Al Youra

Marcia and Ed Kress

LINDA RUCHMAN MEMORIAL FUNDIN HONOR OF › Get well Marshall Ruchman

Gary Holstein › Marriage of Linda Friedman and Jeffrey Crell

Judy and Marshall Ruchman IN MEMORY OF › Allan Rinzler

Judy and Marshall Ruchman

THE TALA ARNOVITZ FUNDIN HONOR OF › 90th birthday of Fred Scheuer

Beverly SaeksIN MEMORY OF › Ellie Brown › Harriet Moscowitz

Beverly Saeks

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FUNDIN MEMORY OF › Brian Appel

Helene Gordon Shirlee and Dr. Ron Gilbert Donna and Marshall Weiss Bernice and Jack Bomstein Helen Halcomb Gertrude and Robert Kahn Beverly and Jeffrey Kantor Elaine and Joe Bettman

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By Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

The word rabbi is derived from the Hebrew term meaning my master, which leaves a lot of room to describe what a rabbi actually does. A rabbi is trained to

be the spiri-tual leader of a Jewish con-gregation, of course, but he or she may also

serve as a teacher, a judge, an administrator and a pastoral coun-selor. And now Rabbi Sherre Zwelling Hirsch adds spiritual life consultant and motivational speaker to her rabbinical portfolio, as we discover in Thresholds: How to Thrive Through Life’s Transitions to Live Fearlessly and Regret-Free.

Hirsch, who has family ties to the Dayton area, will talk about her new book as part of the JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest, on Oct. 28.

She borrows from anthropology the notion of liminal moments, that is, the moments when we stand at a threshold or — as she puts it — “those moments

“Craig knows what he is doing, and he is really dedicated to his craft. There was a purpose, a design, and a consistency to the program he created that really got me motivated. I was moving from despair – from the point of giving up – to a point where I knew I could make it work.”

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The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present Rabbi Sherre Zwelling Hirsch on Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Wright Memorial Public Library, 1776 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 610-1555.

when we are standing between the way we were accustomed to living and a new way of thinking, feeling and being.” The birth of a baby, the death of a loved one, the beginning and the end of a marriage — all of these are examples of what Hirsch regards as the thresholds of life.

“Crossing thresh-olds, even anticipated ones, is complicated and challenging…,” she writes. “And even when they are some of the most exciting moments we’ll ever experience, they can still be difficult, because they activate our deepest doubts about our choices and ourselves.”

The wisdom Hirsch offers is not al-ways or necessarily rooted in Judaism.

“When I was training to become a rabbi, I incorrectly assumed that most of my congregants would come to me for advice about how to lead a Jewish life,” she explains. “And once in a while they did. But most of the time, they came to talk to me not when they were seek-ing answers about Judaism, but rather when they were facing a transition, a liminal moment.” Now that she has left the pulpit, the people she counsels are

no longer exclusively Jewish. “And I have since discovered that while the challenges and fears of my clients are absolutely not uniquely Jewish, they are uniquely human.”

So Hirsch steps away from the for-mal teachings of all religions. While she invokes Talmud and Torah, she also cites wisdom she finds in medical and psy-chological journals, including one tellingly

titled Pain. She quotes Moses and Maya Angelou, the Book of Ruth and Dr. Se-uss. And she explicitly rules out the authority of religion over the decisions we must make in life. “I want you to stop turn-ing to the so-called gurus and experts,” she exhorts the reader. “I want you to become your own rabbi, minister, priest, guide, and guru.” Indeed, she embraces a vigorous and uplifting humanism: “This isn’t about having faith in God,” she writes. “It’s about having faith in the most important person: you.”

Thresholds is less interested in texts than in the emotions and experiences

Rabbi counseling those at life’s thresholds shares wisdom

Rabbi Sherre Zwelling Hirsch

of real people — herself, her family and the many people she has counseled. Their problems become teaching mo-ments for the reader, and Hirsch gener-alizes from the intimate personal issues on which she was consulted by “Gwen” and “Mark,” “Kevin” and “Alexis” and many others. Some of them face life-shattering crises, others are coping with issues that are annoying, rather than tragic. “No matter what the threshold in front of you is,” Hirsch writes, “it is not insignificant.”

Some of her best ideas, in fact, are prosaic and practical. To avoid writing or saying something she might come to regret, Hirsch created a file on her com-puter that she calls the Wait Box.

“Whenever I am tempted to react viscerally to a person or a situation, I

write my response — holding nothing back — and file it in the Wait Box. There my emotional response sits for 24 hours and marinates.”

More often than not, she writes, “it gets dumped in the trash and later replaced with something much more thought-ful, logical and productive.”

Hirsch is not your father’s rabbi. But she is an authentic

embodiment of the many other roles that rabbis have come to play in our lives, both inside the synagogue and far beyond it.


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Review By Gloria KestenbaumNew York Jewish Week

From the reeking slums of the Lower East Side to the rarefied air of Park Avenue and Palm Beach, Susan Jane Gil-man’s The Ice Cream Queen of Or-chard Street is a tart page-turner

An icy ice cream queen: rags to riches on the Lower East Side

The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest will present author Susan Jane Gilman on Tuesday, Oct. 20 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.

across the 20th-century Jewish American experience.

New York Times bestselling novelist Gilman will discuss

her book on Oct. 20 as part of the JCC’s Cul-tural Arts & Book Fest.

Lillian Dunkle (née Malka Treynovsky),

the picaresque heroine handi-capped by poverty and a

crushed leg, is neither pretty nor likeable, but in the tradition of the hardscrabble American rags-to-riches entrepre-neur, she’s smartly indomitable and emboldened by obstacles. A com-bination of Leona Helmsley, Tom Carvel and Becky Sharp, with a hint of Joan Riv-ers, our heroine embodies the best and worst traits of each.

We first meet the self-de-scribed “weisenheimer,” now the elderly doyenne of an ice-cream empire, in the booming 1980s. Reviled by the press and under indictment for a series of charges, some trumped-up, some true, the titular Ice Queen reviews her life, from escaping the pogroms in 1913 to meeting President and Mamie Eisen-hower at the White House.

But Lillian is no Forrest Gump; she’s sometimes ad-mirable, often despicable, but always smart and interesting.

The author’s research is me-ticulous. Gilman’s Dickensian description of the Lower East

Side of the early-20th century conjures up the intensity of such classics as The Rise of David Levinsky or Call it Sleep. She’s also done her homework on the history of the ice cream indus-try; from a formula in the jour-nals of a Renaissance polymath to passages about selling melt-ing ice cream from a broken-down truck (the real Carvel story), the historical references are seamlessly woven into the story and add an extra topping to an already delightful tale.

The Lower East Side is part of our American mythology as much as the Wild West. Gil-man’s talent is taking sentimen-tal stock characters and turning them inside out. Instead of the loving and sacrificing parents of, for instance, my favorite childhood book, All-of-a-Kind Family, Malka’s parents are hateful and abandoning. The exigencies of the American melting pot have dissolved traditional ties; the newly christened Lillian adopts the Catholicism of her new Italian family with few glances back.

Lillian’s admirable tough-ness hardens into an unpleasant shrillness as she ages; a frosty, marcelled cliché, her speech is sprinkled with venom and unconvincing Yiddishisms, and Gilman allows her character to evolve on her own dislikable terms. It’s a bold move and one that pays off in this myth-debunking story of a fully lived life.

Susan Jane Gilman


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Movie Review By Michael FoxSpecial To The Observer

Battered by the camps, the female protagonist of German director Christian Petzold’s Phoenix returns to Berlin after the war like a ghost back from the dead.

The film purposely depicts Nelly (played by the filmmak-er’s regular muse, Nina Hoss) as a specter not entirely of this world. She’s ephemeral and almost invisible, her presence sensed and acknowledged only by a blind street musician.

Even her (non-Jewish) hus-band Johnny fails to recognize her, a jarring confirmation of Nelly’s non-existence that punctures her dubious and frankly delusional hopes of returning to the life she had.

With economy and under-statement, Petzold has evoked the absence of the thousands of Jews snatched from Ger-man cities, never to return. He expresses another hard truth in postwar Germany with those same few brush strokes: Living Jews have no place in Berlin, either.

A riveting drama that neatly raises profound existential questions in the guise of a small-bore thriller, Phoenix opens Oct. 2 at the Neon.

Phoenix is both redeemed and transformed by the best ending of any movie this year, which sweeps away the view-er’s skepticism about the plot’s

Arts&Culture Phoenix builds a fable of identity, memory from Berlin’s rubble

Ronald Zehrfeld (Johnny) and Nina Hoss (Nelly) in Phoenix

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contrivances and engenders a discussion about — among many other things — how life can go on following a genocide.

Nelly’s face is shattered as the film begins, and she is kindly provided with recon-structive surgery. What an opportunity for reinvention, except she wants to look exactly as she did before. The surgeon doesn’t nail it a hun-dred percent, which provides a semi-plausible explanation as to why Nelly’s husband doesn’t recognize her.

For his part, Johnny (played by Ronald Zehrfeld with a veneer of violence and sleaze) denies his previous identity and now wants to be called Jo-hannes. The ashamed Germans dearly want to obscure their involvement in the recent past, and hope a coat of paint will do the trick.

So what will happen when the weak, wounded Nelly gets together with the brutal, calcu-lating Johnny?

Two crucial developments propel Phoenix from flat sche-matic concept into the realm of action and suspense. A friend discovers and informs Nelly that Johnny clandestinely divorced her just before she was arrested in 1944. It’s also suggested, though not proven, that he tipped the SS to Nelly’s hiding place.

We can believe that Johnny had to be a conniver of some kind to survive the war, and

the appearance of this desper-ate woman who resembles his late wife launches a new scheme. He’ll teach her to impersonate Nelly in order to collect her assets (now substan-tial, because they include those of her murdered family mem-bers, but out of Johnny’s reach because he divorced her).

Talk about adding insult to injury, and multiplying the levels of irony. In any event, we now have a cat-and-mouse game in which Nelly and Jo-hannes each have a secret.

Brooding and claustropho-bic, Phoenix is a beautifully etched examination of the pow-erful hold of memory and the

tenuous nature of identity. The fun is the degree to which the film tests the viewer’s belief in memory and identity as driv-ing forces in a person’s life.

Ultimately, Phoenix doesn’t seek to impress us with its clev-erness but to lure us, through its unexpected scenario, into thinking about the Germans and the Jews in a fresh way.

Consequently, Phoenix is a movie that expects its audience to know history. Even better, it trusts us to care about the ways in which the past colors the world today.

Phoenix opens Friday, Oct. 2 at the Neon (German with English subtitles, 98 minutes, unrated).

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It reminds us of the delicate balance necessary for life to thrive on this planet.

RELIGION

By Sarah Chandler, JTA

You might not know it, but Shemini Atzeret is the pinnacle of the High Holy Days season. Not Rosh Hashanah, when our fates for the year are tradition-ally written, nor Yom Kippur, when they are sealed.

Shemini Atzeret, the oft-forgotten coda that comes at the end of the Sukkot festival, trumps them all.

That’s not just my opinion. The rabbis and ancient Israel-ites knew it, too.

According to the agrarian roots of the Jewish calendar, the date of Shemini Atzeret is timed to the start of the rainy season in Israel. In the holi-

day’s Musaf (additional) ser-vice, we recite Tefillat Geshem, the prayer for rain, in which we ask God not only for rain but for the right amount of rain, “livracha velo liklala, for a blessing and not a curse,” rain that will sustain a people with fertile crops, not drown them in torrential floods.

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur merely functioned as preparation for this precarious time.

In the Yom Kippur Avodah service, the following prayer of the high priest is recited: “When the world is in need of rain, do not permit the prayers of the travelers with regard to rain to gain entrance before You.”

The prayers and sacrifices of the High Holy Days were meant to prove our worth so that the harvest season contin-ued smoothly and we merited rain once it was time to plant again.

In ancient times, Sukkot opened with a water-drawing ritual which, by pouring out the remains of last year’s wa-ter, symbolized faith that the coming year’s rains would fall just in time.

Today we still beat wil-low branches on the last day of Sukkot, Hoshanna Rabba, pleading for salvation in the form of rain. Then, having completed a full week of wav-ing the four species on Sukkot — each of which requires a significant amount of water to

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SukkotFestival of BoothsSept. 28-Oct. 4/15-21 Tishri

Named after the huts the Jews lived in while wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt. Marked by

building sukkot to eat meals in during the festival, and in the synagogue by

processions with the lulav (palm branches with myrtle and willow) and etrog (citron fruit).

Shemini AtzeretEighth Day of AssemblyOct. 5/22 TishriEither the final day of Sukkot, or a distinct holiday immediately following Sukkot, depending on interpretation. Historically, it allowed an extra day in Jerusa-lem for Jewish pilgrims on their journey to the Temple. Tefillat Geshem (the prayer for rain), Hallel (Psalms of thanksgiving and joy), and Yizkor (memorial prayers) are recited.

Simchat TorahRejoicing of the TorahOct. 6/23 TishriAnnual cycle of reading the Torah is concluded and a new cycle begun. Celebrated in the synagogue with singing, danc-ing and Torah processionals.

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Shabbat, Oct. 2: 7 p.m.

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Torah Portions Oct. 10/27 Tishri

Bereshit (Gen. 1:1-6:8)

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Oct. 24/11 CheshvanLech Lecha (Gen. 12:1-17:27)

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Perspectives

produce — we set it down and wait for the ultimate judgment.

It makes sense that Diaspora Jews tend not to focus on the agricultural roots of the High Holy Days. As citizens of an industrialized society, praying for rain tends not to be at the top of our to-do lists. Most of us simply take it for granted that substantial food will be shipped in from wherever it can grow.

Theologically, we’ve moved away from this as well. Most contemporary religious ideolo-gies no longer equate follow-ing God’s laws with receiving enough rain for our crops to survive.

The Reform movement has even removed from its prayer books the second paragraph of the Shema, which links observance of the command-ments to the provision of rain, to make the bold statement that as modern Jews, we do not believe we can influence God to change the weather.

And yet, scientific research increasingly points to the fact that human actions can have an effect on the climate — and, in turn, the weather.

Moreover, no matter how technologically advanced our society becomes, life as we know it will continue to de-pend on sufficient rainfall.

And so we should continue to say Tefillat Geshem — not because we believe that fast-ing and chest pounding will

bring rain, but because it re-minds us of the delicate balance necessary for life to thrive on this planet.

Our petitions to God are more than requests to act on our be-half. A respon-sible, modern religious ethos serves two seemly contra-

dictory functions: On the one hand, our request that God reward our weeks of repen-tance with the blessing of rain affirms our lack of dominion; on the other, calling out to God implores us to act by remind-ing us of our responsibilities.

In modern times, we need both scientists and activists telling us what to do as well as the faith that there are systems beyond our control. It is both a recognition and a release of our power.

At this season, a renewed recognition of ancient Juda-ism’s relationship to the earth has great potential to bring

us closer to the rhythms of the seasons, and in turn can lead to a more sustain-able future for the planet.

The count-down to Shemini Atzeret can be an awakening for us

to recognize the sanctity of our planet’s resources.

Through honoring this often overlooked day, by calling out loud that rain should fall, we ask that our community be aligned with the natural cycles of the earth — for blessing and not for curse.

Sarah Chandler is the manager of Farm Forward’s Jewish outreach campaign, which supports Jewish organizations in promoting conscientious food choices, reducing farm animal suffering and advancing sustainable agriculture.

Praying for rain on Shemini Atzeret

Rabbi Ari Ballaban

New education dir. at Beth OrIn September, Rabbi Ari Ballaban began his

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ing on his Ph.D. at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he was ordained in May.



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Western culture’s conceptions of Heaven and Hell were fueled by medieval and early Renaissance art.

The most widely-known im-ages of the afterlife are ancient Egypt’s impressive mummies, statues, and tomb paintings.

Their purpose was to maintain, nourish, and guide the human’s spiritual essence — still attached to the body — in an afterlife that mirrored earthly existence. They hint at elaborate rituals surround-ing preservation of the dead

body and regular offerings of food and drink for the blissful eternal life limited to pharaohs and nobles.

In early Egyptian culture, average persons were doomed to a shadowy, bleak eternity, but long before Moses, Egyp-tian beliefs about the hereafter evolved to include everyone.

The ancient Egyptian bible, the Book of the Dead, describes a perilous underworld journey, a final judgment known as the “weighing of the heart,” a lake of fire or crocodile-faced de-vourer of the condemned; and an Eden-like “Field of Rushes” where the worthy live forever with the gods.

Unlike the Egyptian no-tions of the afterlife, Western religious traditions about what comes next are not detailed in their foundational religious texts.

Heaven and Hell are no-where mentioned in the Torah: biblical rewards and punish-ments are concrete and imme-diate events in the real world, not abstract futuristic ones.

At the same time, it de-scribes the righteous as “gath-ered to their people” and sinners as spiritually “cut off” from their people — events separate from death or burial — biblical evidence of some sort of existence after death.

The earliest mentioned bibli-cal afterlife destination is Sheol. A nebulous place where all the dead congregate, cut off from God and humankind, it is vari-ously described in the Hebrew Bible as a dark, dusty, sleepy place of forgetfulness deep in the earth.

There, people are shadows without knowledge or feeling. While a possible precursor to

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the notion of an underground Hell, Sheol is not a place of judgment or retribution as in the modern concept.

According to some scholars, it may represent the traditional family grave. The New Testa-ment adds little beyond a few scattered descriptions of Hell as fire, pits of darkness, and torment.

It turns out that Western cul-ture’s conceptions of Heaven and Hell were fueled by medi-eval and early Renaissance art. Because the Church was their most frequent patron, the visual and sculptural arts of these eras reflected Chris-tian teachings — primarily the promise of life after death and the consequences of sin — targeted to the largely illiterate populations.

Abundant depictions of Heaven as an ecstatic place in the clouds where holy figures, family members, and all the redeemed eternally reside with God provided an incentive for moral behavior and accep-tance of Jesus as one’s personal savior.

The counterpoint was initi-ated by Dante’s 14th-century Divine Comedy, which sparked an explosion in apocalyptic representations of the tortures awaiting wrongdoers.

Among the most famous are Fra Angelico’s imagery of Sa-tan eating sinners in The Pains of Hell, Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych of sins and retribution in Garden of Earthly Delights, and Rodin’s sculptural Gates of Hell.

Such images were warnings about the consequences of sin: punishment in the afterlife and possible eternal damnation.

While Judaism has always accepted the notion of an after-life, Jewish concepts of Heaven and Hell began to develop dur-ing the reign of the Maccabees (1st and 2nd centuries BCE), of-fering hope in an otherworldly life beyond that of physical defeats, destruction, and exile.

Influenced by Hellenis-tic views of a separate body and soul, some rabbis of the

Talmud portrayed the afterlife as a spir-

itual exis-

tence in which the righteous bask in the light of the Torah and the radiance of the Divine Presence (Berakhot 17a).

Elsewhere in the Talmud, scholars described the righ-teous soul’s reward as paradise or Gan Eden (Garden of Eden), and the evil soul’s pun-ishment as Hell or Gehinnom, the fiery Jerusalem valley of ancient child sacrifice, a temporary stop-ping place for all but the most wicked.

The Jewish philosopher Philo explained that the

soul, imprisoned in an earthly body until it dies, returns to God if it is righteous, or suffers eternal death

if wicked. In Kabalistic literature, the

wicked soul is punished in Hell and then reincarnated until it completes its assigned task, after which it returns to God.

Jewish folklore offers some humorous views on the afterlife. In Heaven, one story recounts, Moses sits and teaches Torah all day long. For the righteous this is heaven; for evil people it is Hell.

Another tale describes the afterlife as a perpetual banquet where the guests cannot bend their el-bows. In Hell the guests are al-ways starving, while in heaven the guests feed each other.

Although seldom apparent in biblical literature, infre-quently discussed by the rabbis of the Talmud, and unregulated by doctrine, belief in an after-life has always been integral to Jewish theology.

Perhaps the limited attention reflects a rejection of the death-centered culture of Egypt. Or maybe it’s just a reminder that this world matters.

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Business ethics: ancient ideas, modern applications

It is hard to believe that the High Holy Days are behind us. However, the luminaries in the sky attest to the rapid pace of time, as the sun rises and sets and the moon appears in the night’s sky orbiting the earth.

Let us direct our attention to the small luminary, the moon, the orbit of which around the Earth marks months and Jew-ish holidays.

The most common word for moon in the Bible is yareach, mentioned about 30 times in a cosmological context.

The yareach, the sun and the stars were perceived as symbols of the permanence of the universe (Ps. 72:5) and their disappearance was a metaphor for radical change at the end of time (Isa 13:10; Joel 2:30).

Moreover, they had the pow-er to strike (Ps. 121:6) and the strength to affect the growth

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of the crops in the field (Deut. 33:14).

And, since the luminaries were considered de-ities in pagan culture, the bibli-cal writers set their creation by God to the fourth day, charging them to “serve as signs for the set time” and thereby minimize their importance (Gen 1:14).

The term yareach is probably derived from the verb arach, meaning wandering, reflecting the moon’s journey across the sky.

Its cyclical orbit reveals dif-ferent phases of the yareach, from the crescent to a full moon, to even a brief disap-pearance from the sky.

This cycle determined the calendar in general, the celebra-tions of holidays in particular (Ps 81:3) and even affected daily business (Prov 7:20).

The constant orbit of the moon was used to mark a block of time in the yearly cycle, called a yerach or a chodesh, a month.

Yerach is derived from ya-reach, reflecting the orbit of the moon and chodesh is based on

Is there a Jewish way to lay off workers? Is it kosher to declare bankruptcy?

Is it ethical to tap into your neighbors’ Wi-Fi? What if they give you permission?

Although you may not think Judaism has much to say about these things, you might be surprised. Contemporary

rabbis and other thinkers have studied the “thou shalts” and “thou shalt nots” found in the Torah, Talmud and traditional sources and have applied them to the business dilemmas of modern-day life.

But why do we need to go to sources? Can’t we just weigh each situation and wing it ac-cording to what feels Jewish?

That’s where this anecdote comes in. A shochet (ritual slaughterer) once approached Rabbi Yisroel Salanter with a dilemma.

The shochet said that he was getting older and becom-ing fearful of making mistakes that may cause others to eat non-kosher meat. He wished to stop slaughtering and go

the adjective chadash meaning new, pointing to the moon’s re-newed reappearance in the sky.

Another biblical name for ya-reach is levanah, which appears only three times in the biblical text.

In Isaiah, the levanah is a metaphor for shame (24:23) and also redemption (30:26). How-ever, in the Song of Songs the levanah describes beauty and conjures romance (6:10).

There are a few Hebrew phrases where yareach and levanah are incorporated. For example, Kiddush Levanah, the blessing of the moon, is the Jewish ritual to mark the reap-pearance of a new levanah in the sky at the beginning of each month.

The poetic modern phrase leyl yareach, literally a night’s moon, implies a lovely bright night when the yareach is seen on the horizon.

Yareach melakhuti, an artificial moon, is Hebrew for satellite. And yerach d’vash is the Hebrew term for honeymoon.

Dr. Rachel Zohar Dulin is a professor of biblical literature at Spertus College in Chicago and an adjunct professor of Bible and Hebrew at New College of Florida.

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into business instead. Salanter asked if he was an expert in the Jewish laws of slaughtering. “Of course, Rebbe.”

Salanter then asked, “Are you an expert in the Jewish laws of business?” The student laughed, “Of course not, very few people learn those laws.” Salanter replied, “You are not making any sense. If you are prepared to stop slaughtering because of your fear of sinning, even though you are an expert in the laws, how much more so should you fear sinning in business, in which you have no expertise (bit.ly/jethics3)?”

The Business Ethics Center of Jerusalem outlines some principles which may not necessarily align with modern business practices:

• The imperative of integrity demands honesty even when it is contrary to business advan-tage.

• Greed, while being an important motivation for eco-nomic activity, is also a source for unethical behavior.

• Judaism recognizes that self-interest plays a major (but not sole) role in ensuring ethical standards. Love your neighbor as yourself offers the positive and negative aspects of this principle.

Unlike other traditions, Judaism has never viewed

poverty as a virtue. Wealth, however, has always been seen as a challenge (bit.ly/jethics4).

Rabbi Yizchok Breitowitz has examined whether declar-ing bankruptcy is a kosher choice under halachah, Jewish law. He points out that, “the Torah considers the obligation to pay debts as absolute... and there is no mechanism in halachah that is tanta-mount to escaping your debts by fil-ing a bankruptcy and obtaining a discharge.”

But since we live in a secular country, are we al-lowed to file bankruptcy and get a discharge? Although the answer seems to be yes, the fascinating part of the article is the reasoning which the rabbi uses, and his explanation of the rights of lender and debtor in secular and Jewish societies — as well as the role of the Jewish community toward individuals who find themselves in finan-cial distress (bit.ly/jethics5).

Is there a Jewish way to

lay off workers? An article in Forward tells the story of someone who had worked almost 25 years for a Jewish institution and was laid off two years short of retirement. Rabbi Elliot Dorff feels that “it’s just

mean, frankly, to fire people at that stage.”

Dorff says that Jewish texts and tradition are filled with discussion

about the importance of work — and the re-

sponsibility that employ-ers have to employees.

When his own institution, the American Jewish Uni-versity, faced cutbacks, staff elected to take salary cuts as a group rather than allowing any individuals to lose their jobs (bit.ly/jethics6).

I came across a fascinating case heard by the Bet Din (rab-binical court) of Haifa about a school maintenance worker who was dismissed after 12 years of service. The court ordered the employer to go

beyond the letter of the law to not only pay him an enhanced severance fee but also assist him to find another job “in or-der ‘to do that which is just and good (bit.ly/jethics7).’”

And the Wi-Fi? What if your neighbor has unlimited access and won’t notice or doesn’t care? That’s not the point, says Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir.

“The problem with this reasoning is that the service provider charges a certain price for unlimited access based on the knowledge that the aver-age subscriber uses a certain amount of bandwidth (amount of wireless information). It’s like an all-you-can-eat buf-fet; a person is allowed to eat as much as he wants, but if diners were allowed to ‘piggy-back’ on a single meal then the restaurant would find it pretty hard to break even (bit.ly/jeth-ics8).”

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

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Crowd-pleasing recipes for leisurely meals outsideBy Shannon Sarna, JTA

Sukkot is such a beautiful holiday: eating outdoors, decorating the sukkah, and enjoying the flavors of fall with family and friends. The fasting is over, and the craziness of the New Year rush has passed.

You can leisurely enjoy long holiday meals outside. Even though the holi-days fall a bit early this year, I still enjoy bringing autumn flavors into my menu. These recipes are beautiful crowd-pleasers, sure to further liven up your sukkah.

Butternut Squash and Sage ChallahsYield: 2 large loaves

If butternut squash challah sounds a bit bizarre, it’s actually quite similar to a pumpkin or sweet potato challah, which may be more common.

The texture of this dough is smooth, slightly sweet and pairs perfectly with savory sage. It is equally delicious slath-ered in butter for breakfast or dipped in a hearty bowl of soup or stew for lunch or dinner.

Taste of autumn in the sukkah¼ cup vegetable oil5-6 fresh sage leaves1½ Tbsp. dry yeast1 tsp. sugar1¼ cups lukewarm water5½-6 cups all-purpose unbleached flour (I prefer to use King Arthur)¾ cup sugar½ Tbsp. salt½ cup butternut squash puree (fresh or frozen)2 eggs2 egg yolks plus 1 tsp. waterAdditional fresh sage leaves for garnishThick sea salt

Place vegetable oil and fresh sage

leaves in a small saucepan over low-medium heat. Heat through until sage becomes fragrant, around five minutes. Remove from heat and allow to sit 25-30 minutes. Strain sage leaves but do not discard. Finely chop leaves.

In a small bowl, place yeast, one teaspoon sugar and lukewarm water. Allow to sit for around 10 minutes, until it becomes foamy on top.

In a large bowl or stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, mix together 1½ cups flour, salt, butternut squash and

sugar. After the water-yeast mixture has be-come foamy, add to flour mixture along with oil and chopped sage leaves. Mix thoroughly.

Add another one cup of flour and eggs and mix until smooth. Switch to the dough hook at-tachment if you are using a stand mixer.

Add an additional three cups of flour, one cup at a time, until dough is smooth and elastic. You can do this in a bowl with a wooden spoon, in a stand mixer with the dough attach-ment or, once the dough becomes pliable enough, on a floured work sur-face with the heels of your hands. Dough will be done when it bounces back to the touch, is smooth without clumps and is almost shiny.

Place dough in a Continued on next page Butternut squash and sage challahs

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Continued from previous pageAutumn in the sukkahgreased bowl and cover with damp towel. Allow to rise at least around three hours. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Braid challah into desired shape. Allow challah to rise another 45 to 60 minutes, or until you

can see the size has grown and challah seems light. This step is very important to ensure a light and fluffy challah.

In a small bowl, beat two egg yolks with one teaspoon water. Brush egg wash liberally over challah. Sprinkle with chopped

fresh sage and thick sea salt. If making one large challah, bake around 27-28 minutes; if mak-ing two smaller challahs, bake 24-26 minutes. Jeweled Veggie Orzo with Wheatberries Yield: 6-8 servings

This easy side dish screams autumn, and is my way to feel like I am eating a nice bowl of pasta while also getting in a serving of whole grains and veggies. Add any combination of colorful fall vegetables that you like.

The sweetness of the dried cranberries and the crunch of the pepita seeds is delicious outdoors in the sukkah on a crisp, sunny day.

1 cup dry orzo pasta1/2 cup wheatberries1/2 medium butternut squash2 purple carrots or 1 large beet1/4 cup cooked peas (fresh or frozen)1/4 cup dried cranberries1/4 cup homemade or store-bought pepitas (you can also use slivered almonds or sunflower seeds)

olive oilsalt and pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.Peel butternut squash and

carrots. Dice each into half-inch cubes. Place butternut squash and carrots separately on a bak-ing sheet, drizzle with salt and pepper.

Roast for 15 to 20 minutes, tossing once, until caramelized.

Note: If replacing the carrot with beet, wash the beet gently and place in tin foil. Roast in oven at 400 degrees for around 45 minutes or until soft. Allow to cool and remove skin. Once beet has cooled, dice into half-inch cubes.

While vegetables are roast-ing, bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Cook orzo around 11 minutes and drain. Drizzle with olive oil and place in a large bowl.

Cook wheatberries according to directions on package (for a half cup wheatberries, you will need around one cup of water. Bring water to a boil and then simmer covered for around 15 minutes).

In the large bowl with orzo, add cooked butternut squash, carrots (or beets), peas, wheat-

berries, cranberries, pepitas and another one tablespoon olive oil.

Mix thoroughly. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve room temperature or warm. Paprika Roasted Chicken and Potatoes Yield: 4 servings

You don’t have to cut the potatoes into slices if you don’t want, you could just cut them into quarters and toss with paprika, salt, pepper and olive oil. For me, there’s something about chicken fat dripping onto potatoes while they roast that gets me a little excited.

4-5 medium Yukon gold potatoes4 chicken thighs and/or drumsticks2 Tbsp. smoky paprika½ Tbsp. hot paprika1 tsp. dried oregano1 tsp. fresh lemon juice1 tsp. fresh lemon zest4 garlic cloves¼ cup olive oilSalt and pepper

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Slice potatoes into half-inch slices. Grease the bottom of a

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Pyrex dish. Lay potatoes on bottom of pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.

Whisk together spices, lemon juice, zest and olive oil. Spread all over the chicken including underneath the skin. Allow to marinate for 30 minutes if you have time, though not necessary.

Place chicken and whole garlic cloves on top of potatoes. Roast for 50 to 55 minutes, or until juices run clear and a meat thermometer reads 160 degrees.

Remove chicken and set aside. If you want your potatoes crispier, you can place back in the oven for another 10 to 15 minutes or until desired doneness.

Oatmeal Cookies with Chocolate and Dried CherriesYield: 1 dozen cookies

I love chewy oatmeal raisin cookies. But when you combine tart, dried cher-ries with dark chocolate chips, you get a truly unique cookie that your guests will rave about.

These cookies are great pareve or dairy and can be made a few days ahead of time.

Tip: To bring out the sweetness of cookies, don’t forget the salt. Combine a half tablespoon of thick sea salt with a half tablespoon of sanding sugar and sprinkle just a pinch on each cookie.

The sanding sugar will make the cookies look beautiful and the salt will really add a depth of flavor and bring out the cookie’s sweetness.

13/4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats3/4 cup flour3/4 tsp. cinnamon1/2 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. salt11/4 sticks unsalted butter or margarine, softened1/3 cup packed light brown sugar1/3 cup granulated sugar1 egg1/2 tsp. vanilla1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips1/2 cup dried cherries1/2 Tbsp. thick sea salt (optional)1/2 Tbsp. sanding sugar (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter or margarine and sugars with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla.

Add dry ingredients to wet ingre-dients until just combine. Fold in the chocolate chips and cherries (or other add-ins). Don’t overmix. In a small bowl combine sanding sugar and sea salt.

Using a cookie scoop, drop cookies on a baking sheet two inches apart. Lightly flatten cookies with moistened fingers. Sprinkle a pinch of sea salt and sugar on top of each cookie.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Let cool for two or three min-utes on baking sheet and then transfer to cooling racks. Shannon Sarna is the editor of The Nosher.


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