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Temple Sholom at 150 Springfield’s only Jewish congregation continues to shrink, but not ready to close. ‘We’re going to fight it until the very end.’

By Marshall Weiss The Observer

since.”

The Schneiders have also been members of Springfield’s Reform congregation, Temple n 1951, New Yorkers Ray and Marilyn Schneider were Sholom, ever since.

“We’re temple people,” driving to Dayton. Ray, an engineer with the Air Force, had Marilyn says with a laugh and a smile. just been stationed at WrightIn the years since, Ray, 95, Patterson Air Force Base. and Marilyn have served as “When we moved here, we were on our way to Dayton and president of the congregation and sisterhood respectively, we stopped and asked somebody, ‘How do you get there?’” have chaired virtually every committee, and have celebrated recalls Marilyn Schneider, 92. their children and grandchil“He said, ‘Why?’ We said we dren’s numerous simchas at just moved. And he said, ‘You Temple Sholom. need a place to live? Don’t go Ray and Marilyn count to Dayton. You better go to Springfield. You’ll get a place to themselves among the Jewish live there.’ So we turned around grandparents in Springfield whose family members still live and went back to Springfield, nearby. and we’ve been here ever

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“We have a nice congregation of very educated people,” Marilyn says. “We’re near Antioch and Wittenberg. We have several professors. But the population has gone down drastically.”

As the economic fortunes of Springfield’s industries have waxed and waned, so too has the membership of the city’s only Jewish congregation, Temple Sholom.

It was on Aug. 25, 1866 when nine men met to organize the Jewish Congregation of Ohev Zedukah (He Loves Righteousness), now Temple Sholom.

Jewish peddlers who pushed their carts in the area joined the services, which were held in rented spaces for the congregation’s first 52 years.

By the mid-1950s, the congregation expanded to its peak, with approximately 140 memberships and 90 students in its religious school.

Laurie Leventhal, who has served on and off as Temple Sholom’s president since 2000 (she’s on again), says there are now between 40 and 45 local memberships. Eight or nine people attend Friday night services regularly. There are no children in the congregation.

A few years ago, the temple’s leadership considered closing its doors. Ultimately, the remaining congregants were not ready.

“We were at the point then Continued on Page Six

Temple Sholom Pres. Laurie Leventhal and Rabbi Cary Kozberg hope to keep the struggling 150-year-old congregation alive as long as possible

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When we sit down to Shabbat dinner on Friday nights, we bless our children. We bless our daughters to be like our Matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah.

But we bless our sons to be like Marshall Ephraim and Manasseh — the Weiss grandchildren of the Patriarch Israel — the sons of Joseph. Why Ephraim and Manasseh? First of all, their grandfather blesses them that way in Gen. 48:20: “So he blessed them that day, saying: ‘By you shall Israel invoke blessings, saying: God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” Rabbinic commentators offer several possible reasons for this. The one I like best: Ephraim and Manasseh were the first Israelites born and raised in a diaspora, in Egypt, away from their people. They held the values and ways of Israel with only one other Israelite, their father, at their side. It can be difficult to maintain Jewish life in places with few Jews. That’s just what the remaining congregants of Temple Sholom in Springfield are trying to do.

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JTA — An Oberlin College assistant professor whose antisemitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty earlier this year has been dismissed.

The Ohio college’s board of trustees announced Nov. 15 that it had voted to dismiss Joy Karega “for failing to meet the academic standards that Oberlin requires of its faculty and failing to demonstrate intellectual honesty.” The dismissal was effective that day.

Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, has been on paid leave and not teaching any classes at the college, located about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland, since August.

Joy Karega The vote to dismiss came “after extensive consideration and a comprehensive review of recommendations from multiple faculty committees and Oberlin President Marvin Krislov,” the board said in a statement sent to students, faculty, alumni and others associated with the college.

The statement also said the board reaffirmed Oberlin’s “historic and ongoing commitment to academic freedom.”

In a Facebook post later on Nov. 15, Karega said she would fight the dismissal, saying the decision was “not a surprise. I’ve been dealing with the persecution, incompetent leadership, and discrimination from Oberlin College since March. No surprise here.”

She appeared to blame the college governors and administration of persecuting her because she is black.

“To my faculty colleagues who had a hand in this decision and to my faculty colleagues who have sat back and done NOTHING: When this precedent that is being set extends beyond mere harm to faculty of color, you will have NO right to complain or say anything,” she wrote.

“You had a chance, and you either fought for my dismissal or sat silent, watching as the College discriminated against me and applied arbitrary and biased standards to me in ways that many of you KNOW were wrong and unfair.”

Karega’s social media posts, including one accusing Israel and “Rothschild-led bankers” of responsibility for downing a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014 and another suggesting that Israel was behind the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris, drew widespread attention after The Tower published an article about them in February.

The article came on the heels of a letter from Oberlin alumni expressing concern about the tolerance of antisemitism on campus, particularly within the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Karega has not apologized for her posts.

“Dr. Karega attacked her colleagues when they challenged inconsistencies in her description of the connection between her postings and her scholarship,” the statement said. “She disclaimed all responsibility for her misconduct. And she continues to blame Oberlin and its faculty committees for undertaking a shared governance Continued on next page

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“In the face of Dr. Karega’s repeated refusal to acknowledge and remedy her misconduct, her continued presence undermines the mission and values of Oberlin’s academic community. Thus, any sanction short of dismissal is insufficient and the Board of Trustees is compelled to take this most serious action.”

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Jewish Oberlin professor’s house vandalized, note says ‘Gas Jew Die’ The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note reading “Gas Jew Die” was left at his front door.

The professor has been identified by police as Benjamin Kuperman, an associate professor at the school and chair of the computer science department. The incident occurred early on the morning of Nov. 17. Kuperman and his wife are Jewish.

Belongings on Kuperman's front porch were damaged and the note, made of letters cut from newspapers, was stuck under the mezuzah affixed to the home's doorpost, according to reports.

Oberlin Police Chief Juan Torres told Fox News that the incident was being investigated as a hate crime.

In an email to students, Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov called it: “a cowardly, hateful act.”

“As the General Faculty discussed yesterday, this is a moment of great stress and consternation, both nationally and locally. We will need each other’s continued compassion and support at this time; please take care of yourselves, your families, and your loved ones.

As our community grieves for the loss of dignity and personal/physical safety that comes with these sorts of vile attacks, these events also can galvanize us in our resolve to fight bigotry and hatred wherever and whenever they occur,” he wrote.

On Nov. 15, two days before the vandalism, an Oberlin assistant professor whose antisemitic social media posts outraged many alumni and faculty was dismissed by the college's board of trustees.

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Temple Sholom

Membership was at its peak when Temple Sholom congregants dedicated the cornerstone for the education wing of its current building on North Limestone Street, July 1, 1956

Temple Sholom Continued from Page Three that our membership was going down a cliff,” Laurie says. “That was two summers ago. And we had been using layleaders. The minute you say we’re going to close or something, then we have people coming. We weren’t ready to close up. Even though we maybe had 40 memberships, we weren’t going to stop. Financially, I know who I can go to, and we have an endowment.

What’s the point of having money if you can’t use it?”

At the end of this summer, Laurie and the board hired a familiar face to serve as part-time rabbi for Temple Sholom — Rabbi Cary Kozberg.

Right after his ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Cary’s first pulpit was Temple Sholom, from 1977 to 1980. It was a new experience for the Reform congregation to have a guitar-playing rabbi whose first Rosh Hashanah sermon was about Star Wars.

When Laurie found out that Cary had retired after 25 years as director of spiritual care at Wexner Heritage Village in Columbus, she asked if he’d return to Temple Sholom part-time.

“The leaders here, so many people weren’t just nice to the rabbi, they really wanted to help the new rabbis,” Cary says. “They wanted them to have a good

experience, they wanted to shepherd them and nurture them. I felt that while I was here. I’m glad I can come back and can repay the favor.”

On two Friday evenings each month, the rabbi leads Shabbat services. The other two Friday evening services are led by Cantor Lauren Bandman, the daughter of congregants; she recently moved back to the area from California.

“With my background of working with older adults, I really see that as a plus,” Cary says. “I want to do some programming about aging, the Jewish perspective on aging. When I come up, much of my time is spent making pastoral visits. And for a lot of folks, they haven’t heard from a rabbi in years. And it’s not a matter of, ‘We need you for a minyan.’ It’s really a matter of, ‘I want to get to know you, I want to know who you are, what your concerns are. I’m here for you if you need me.’”

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“People of all ages intermingled and were kind and welcoming to us,” Phyllis, now 80, says. “There were several other young couples. We were in our 20s and 30s. But we were accepted.”

The temple was always busy. “There were parties, there were shows, there were fund-raisers, and everybody worked together,” Phyllis recalls. “It was basically the women, although the men participated in the shows and things like that. We had a Council of Jewish Women Chapter, a sisterhood chapter.”

She also remembers the antisemitism of the day.

When the Nedelmans built a home in a new development, Stan noticed their builder trying to wipe away a chalk swastika that someone drew on their walkway.

And the Springfield Country Club was restricted, she notes. “My husband joined a radiologist’s practice who said before we came, ‘Is a country club important to you?’ Stan said, ‘No, not really.’ And he said, ‘Because you cannot belong. Jews are not allowed.’”

Laurie and her husband, Eddie, moved from Cleveland to Springfield in 1971 when Eddie went to work with his uncles Fred and Harry Leventhal at Vining Broom manufacturing company.

“The Jewish community, if you were Jewish, was the center of everything,” Laurie says. “As a young couple, we didn’t do anything with anyone not Jewish. My friends were all Jewish here, the older couples, every weekend there was a party — formal dinner parties — and everybody ate there.”

As the country club and other organizations became more inclusive over the 1970s, Jewish couples began making non-Jewish friends.

“And we then moved away from the temple per se,” Phyllis says. “And once these organizations opened up, the Jewish community wasn’t as strong here I would say, with the younger people. It wasn’t like the people

hyllis and Dr. Stan Nedelman of Cincinnati arrived in Springfield in 1963 after Stan’s medical residency with the Air Force. Phyllis was raised Conservative; Stan’s family attended an Orthodox synagogue.

“And so when we found out we were moving to Springfield, I called someone from the Conservative synagogue,” Phyllis, now the temple’s vice president remembers. “And they said, ‘If you have children, you Temple Sholom really ought to consider going to the Reform temple because they have a Sunday school, and we have very few members left.’ That’s how we got to Temple Sholom.”

The Conservative synagogue at that time was Beth-el Congregation.

Now defunct, it originally began as an Orthodox synagogue. In its later years, Beth-el met in rooms at Temple Sholom’s current location on North Limestone Street.

“As the years went on, they got their student rabbis from Jewish Theological Seminary (Conservative),” Cary says of Beth-el. “When I was here in the ‘70s, I’d help make a minyan for them when I could. They barely had 12 to 15 people then.”

When Phyllis and her husband arrived at Temple Sholom in ‘63, she Rabbi Lloyd R. Temple Sholom’s first building, at South Fountain Avenue, which it occupied from was impressed that there seemed to Goldman be no divisions by age.

1983-1995 1918 to 1959.

Temple Sholom’s recent rabbis

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of Maxine and Fred’s era.”

Phyllis also remembers that when her children were in elementary school, Springfield’s public schools provided students with “release time” for religious education.

“Those children whose parents signed an agreement to let their children go to this religious class were met by representatives from a church that was near the school who would walk the children down to a church,” she says.

The few Jewish children were left to sit in their classrooms with their teachers, who provided no instruction.

“After two or three years, it just stopped,” Phyllis says.

“Things usually got done by working person-to-person and knowing people who were on the school board or people who had some influence on the school board.”

rummage sale and we asked all the men to bring their clothes down there. He had a factory here in town. So all the men brought their sport coats and stuff like that, and he bought them all and gave them to people in his factory. He was as sweet as could be.

“The outsiders loved Fred.

‘Oh, Fred Leventhal, we know him!’ That’s a big thing. But everybody did know him. He was on every board. He did everything. Everybody knew he was Jewish — he didn’t hesitate about that.”

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ntil Cary returned to Temple Sholom this year, the congregation had been without a rabbi since 2010.

At the time, the temple didn’t renew the contract of its fulltime rabbi, Janice Garfunkel, citing budget constraints. Three years later, the rabbi died in Cincinnati after a ne of long battle with those with breast cancer. influence This was the was Fred third rabbinic Leventhal, who death Temple died at the age of Sholom congre94 on June 16. gants experienced Fred and his since the 1970s. brother Harry Her immediarrived in Springate predecessor, field from CleveRabbi Marianne land in 1939 and Gevirtz, died bought Vining Fred Leventhal in 2003 of lymBroom. The brothphoma. ers expanded the And a generation before, company to 650 employees in death struck a rabbi and his four states; Vining became one of Springfield’s largest employ- wife. Rabbi C. Melvyn Helfgott ers. The company disbanded in was let go in 1969 when leader2003 following a merger and an ship wasn’t pleased with his work. acquisition.

“I wasn’t here yet, but they Laurie shares a smartphone felt he wasn’t doing a good job,” video of Fred from earlier Laurie says. “He went elsethis year, when he spoke at a celebration of Temple Sholom’s where for a summer. And while he was there, they realized 150th anniversary. something was wrong and he “The Jewish strength lied in was diagnosed with the beginthe merchant class, from the pushcart they came with, to the ning of Alzheimer’s.

“So they came back here. store they opened, and they got She came back here with four the little temple going,” Fred children and a husband she was explains on the recording. trying to take care of. Ellen was “Fred was instrumental in half the things that happened in a social worker and very well liked. And then they ended up the city,” Laurie adds. putting him in a home. And “The story was told that then she got diagnosed with when he bought his first house breast cancer and died first.” in the ‘40s,” Cary says, “his In 1975, while Laurie was neighbor actually wanted to buy the house from Fred before pregnant with her third child, she and Eddie took in the two they even moved in because he younger Helfgott children while was Jewish. He didn’t want a Jew living next door. It was still the two older children finished college. that difficult.”

According to the Schneiders, “He was a very strong leader retired Temple Sholom Rabbi in the community and as a Lloyd R. Goldman, who now result of that, the Jewish comlives in Cleveland, still writes to munity was always in good the congregation. hands,” Ray Schneider remem“And some people write him bers of Fred.

“What was he like?” Marilyn personal letters,” Marilyn says.

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holidays.”

Goldman’s son, who lives in Columbus, teaches and coaches at Springfield High School.

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ven though Laurie isn’t worried about the temple’s finances right now, she knows the clock is ticking.

“No one new is coming,” she says. “As I’ve lost Fred, and I see the Schneiders aren’t able to attend, the Nedelmans are gone five months (to California for the winter), I’m not sure what’s going to happen.”

She and Cary just had the conversation that they may have even fewer people at services now.

“Unfortunately one of them just had surgery, so he hasn’t been here,” Laurie says. “What are we going to do when we have five or six people on Friday nights? We don’t want to stop having services because once you stop, and once you say once a month or every other week, it will never be the right Friday night.”

For now, Laurie decides to hold services even if it’s just for five or six. She’s sending a letter to members asking them to commit to one Friday night a month.

“It might be that what happens in this building on a Friday night is not a formal service,” Cary says. “Maybe it will be something else that is more engaging to people.”

E.F. Hutton’s announcement in September that it will relocate its headquarters to Springfield along with 400 jobs encourages Temple Sholom to hang in there.

“We’re kind of waiting to see what happens with E.F. Hutton,” Phyllis says. “And if they really do bring in 400 people, we think there may be a few Jewish people among them, in which case, maybe they would want to join a temple.”

“We’re going to fight it until the very end,” Laurie says.

“We’re not going to go easy, that’s for sure. We will be the Jewish presence in Springfield.

You have to. I have a granddaughter here. She’s a high school senior. She’s taking classes at Wittenberg. There are 13 students at Wittenberg who are Jewish. And she says she’s trying to get them to come on a Friday. And we said, ‘Come have pizza with us.’”

“Wherever Jews are,” Cary says, “we’re supposed to be a light unto the nations. And even though we don’t have a large searchlight here, we do have flashlights. And every flashlight counts. And as long as the flashlights are on, there will be light.”

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By Ben Sales, JTA At 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, Oklahoma City Rabbi Abby Jacobson received a text from a teenage congregant expressing sadness at the presidential election results — and fear.

“She said, ‘I’m sorry for texting you, rabbi, but I can’t say any of this at school,’” related Jacobson, the spiritual leader at the Conservative Emanuel Synagogue, in a state where 65 percent of voters favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

“We have a lot of kids who feel unsafe sharing liberal ideas at school. We have a lot of kids who have met more bullying at

school.”

In America’s Jewish community, Jacobson’s congregation is an outlier. Most American Jews live in states that voted for Clinton in this presidential election.

Many of those who live in red states, at least in this election, still live in “blue” counties.

In Florida and Pennsylvania, for example, Miami-Dade and Philadelphia counties, respectively, both went Democrat. Most of the 71 percent of American Jews who voted for Clinton live among populations that tend to agree with them politically.

Not so with Jacobson’s community, along with a handful of others across the country, who live not only in states but in counties and cities that voted for Trump. In her synagogue's Oklahoma County, Trump beat Clinton by 10 points.

Rabbis in red counties say their synagogues have substantial numbers of both Republicans and Democrats. A few say they try to avoid talking politics in synagogue so as not to further divide an already small community.

But Jacobson and others say that while some of their Republican congregants are celebrating, those who have reached out are stunned and anxious.

“What I am finding is a general sense of shock, which I share,” said Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger of Reform BethEl Congregation in Fort Worth, Texas. “Nobody really thought this was going to happen.

There are understandably some congregants who are happy, but I haven’t heard them exulting.

What I’ve been hearing mostly is ‘I can’t believe it.’”

Rabbis in politically conser-

vative areas say some of their congregants are used to feeling different from their neighbors, if not because of their religion then because of their politics.

“Walking out my door is an interfaith experience,” Jacobson said.

But congregants are reporting an increase in antisemitic attacks this school year, she said.

Jacobson retold an anecdote she heard from one of her middle schoolers: a classmate this year said that “Hitler had the right idea.”

Mecklenburger, who is active with Planned Parenthood in a county that went 52 to 43 percent for Trump, said the election disappointment is familiar to him.

“Most of us are used to voting for people who don’t win,” he said. “You get used to fighting the good fight, but not necessarily winning. What was different is that you knew lots of your Republican friends were going to vote for Hillary because they couldn’t imagine voting for Trump.”

In the wake of the election, some Jews have sought out synagogues as spaces of refuge and solace.

Rabbi Vered Harris, also from Oklahoma City, said a group of parents convened after Hebrew school Wednesday, Nov. 9 for an impromptu meeting on how to respond to the vote as Jews.

Her Thursday, Nov. 10 Talmud class at the Reform Temple B’nai Israel, which usually draws 10 people, drew twice the number that week.

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“Everyone who lives in Oklahoma is aware that we are a small-C conservative state, and we have a number of small-C conservative Jews and Republican Jews,” said Harris, differentiating between the Conservative Jewish movement and political conservatism. “At least with the Jewish people I’m interacting with, the upset is not about Republican or Democrat. The upset is about this particular person who is stoking fear.”

Both Harris and Jacobson, however, noted with satisfaction that Oklahoma voters, while supporting Trump, also soundly defeated a ballot measure that would have allowed state money to be used for religious purposes.

At the Orthodox Etz Chaim Synagogue in Jacksonville, Florida, Rabbi Yaakov Fisch told congregants that the world, and their lives, are bigger than the 2016 campaign.

Trump won Fisch’s Duval County by less than 2 percent of the vote, and he says his synagogue is similarly divided.

“After every significant event, you take a deep breath,” he said. “You take a pause, you move on. There are still going to be stresses in life.”

He added that for those who supported Trump, “We’re not moving into the Garden of Eden, and for the people that view this as catastrophic, the sky's not falling.”

Bannon rejects & supplies ammunition to those who label him antisemitic

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Bannon acknowledged, as he has in the past, that the nationalists he admires have attracted antisemites and racists to their ranks — but also that he rejected these expressions, and believed that these elements would soon fall away.

“I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations make great neighbors,” he told the Journal, apparently referring to movements led by Nigel Farage in Britain and Marine LePen in France, both of whom have in recent weeks celebrated Trump’s victory.

“I’ve also said repeatedly that the ethno-nationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will change over time.

I’ve never been a supporter of ethno-nationalism.”

While many European nationalist movements have in recent years distanced themselves from explicit anti-Jewish com-

ments, racially charged theories remain integral to their platforms, particularly those targeting Middle Easterners and, in central Europe, Roma. Jewish groups in those countries tend to be skeptical of claims that the nationalist movements have divested themselves of antiJewish hostility.

In the Journal interview, Bannon praised the "alt-right" movement, which he defines as “younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment.” He also acknowledged the alt-right has “some racial and antisemitic overtones.” But he also “makes clear,” according to the interviewer, that "he has zero tolerance for such views.”

He also said that while Breitbart offers the alt-right a platform, it is not the only outlook represented in the publication. “We provide an outlet for 10 or 12 or 15 lines of thought,” Bannon said. “We set it up that way.”

Bannon also sought in his interview with The Hollywood Reporter to distinguish the nationalism he embraces from white supremacism, but segued

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Peter Beinart, a liberal Jewish “The globalists gutted the writer who is critical of Israel American working class and but also has defended it from created a middle class in Asia. attacks from the far left, said The issue now is about Ameribacking Israel and Zionism was cans looking to not get f—ed not necessarily over.”

The Zionist mutually exclusive Speaking with antisemitism. to the Journal, Organization of Beinart, speakBannon outlined America and ing on CNN on areas where BreitNov. 15 during a bart has champi- the Republican oned Israel.

Jewish Coalition segment on Bannon, cited as an “I have Brehave both example the preitbart Jerusalem, defended Bannon World War II Polwhich I have ish government, Aaron Klein run against charges which encouraged with about 10 of antisemitism Jewish emigrareporters there. tion to pre-state We’ve been Palestine as a means of decreasleaders in stopping this BDS ing its Jewish population. “For movement” — boycott, divesta hundred years, you could ment and sanctions — “in the find example after example of United States; we’re a leader in people who both trafficked in the reporting of young Jewantisemitism and also support ish students being harassed the state of Israel.” on American campuses; we’ve Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a been a leader on reporting on the terrible plight of the Jews in regular advocate for Israel and Jewish causes, told Breitbart JeEurope.”

rusalem that he saw no evidence of “personal antisemitism on the part of Bannon.”

“I think the larger problem — and it’s a very complicated one today — is how you assess a person who himself might not have negative characteristics, but who has widespread appeal to people who do,” Dershowitz continued, describing a problem he sees on the right and left. “And I think the same thing is probably true of some very right-wing conservatives who appeal (intentionally) or inadvertently to people whose values they probably themselves don’t agree with."

In a new backgrounder on Bannon published on its web site, the ADL concedes that “we are not aware of any antisemitic statements made by Bannon himself,” despite the allegations from his ex-wife. It also acknowledges that Breitbart's Jerusalem bureau was started under his tenure.

The backgrounder continues, “Under his stewardship, Breitbart has emerged as the leading source for the extreme views of a vocal minority who peddle bigotry and promote hate.”

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By Ben Sales instances in which NEW YORK — Thirty years the campaign itself ago, it would have been safe sent messages that to say the American Jewish community agreed on the need echoed antisemitic themes. He to fight for Israel and against pledged to sign antisemitism. up as a Muslim if, It may still be true that most as Trump hinted American Jews support those during the camcauses. But now, apparently, some people aren’t so sure what paign, a Muslim “database” were to either of those things mean. be created. But the ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt at the One Jew’s support of Israel is organization’s Never is Now conference, Nov. 17 panel immediately another’s attack on the Jewish accusing Israel of genocide. after him focused state. One Jew’s condemnation There was broad consensus, at on anti-Israel activism on the of an alleged promoter of antileast among American Jewish left. semitism is another’s smear organizations, in condemning “The harassment and hate on a purported defender of the the BLM statement. In addition that bubbled up around the Jews. to the ADL and all three major campaign was unlike anything Nowhere did this emerge denominations, groups rangwe’ve seen in recent history,” more clearly than at an AntiGreenblatt said. “The American ing from right to left on Israel Defamation League conference slammed the “genocide” claim, and subsequent Zionist Organi- Jewish community, our comas did the Jewish Federations of munity, has not seen this level zation of America dinner. They North America and the Ameriwere held days apart from each of antisemitism in mainstream can Jewish Committee. political and public discourse other, on the same floor of the No similar consensus on since the 1930s.” same posh hotel in Manhattan.

The ADL was among the first Bannon has coalesced among Both organizations claimed to the American Jewish alphabet fight for the same things: oppos- of several mainstream Jewish soup: JFNA and AJC, as well as organizations to condemn the ing Jew-hatred and supporting major Orthodox groups, have hiring of senior Trump adviser the Jewish homeland. stayed silent on Bannon. And But their rhetoric could hard- Stephen Bannon, who used to run Breitbart News, a website ac- at the ZOA’s dinner Nov. 20, an ly have been more different.

The ADL, which strives to be cused of publishing antisemitic, entirely different Jewish narrative emerged. misogynist and racist articles. nonpartisan in fighting antiIn the same room where The Conservative and Reform semitism and bigotry (and as a movements, which together rep- Greenblatt had admonished the result has been criticized from the right and the left), called out resent most affiliated American Trump campaign three days before, ZOA President Morton Jews, soon followed. antisemitism on both ends of Klein welcomed the presidentThese were the same orgathe political spectrum at its conelect. In his speech, Klein joked nizations that, three very long ference Nov. 17. CEO Jonathan months ago, criticized the Black that he would have preferred a Greenblatt aimed his strongest lower IQ and more girlfriends Lives Matter movement for fire on the antisemitism and in high school, then quipped, “Donald Trump told me to say that. It’s guy talk.” Minutes later, to raucous cheers, he praised Trump for being tough on Iran. “Thank God we have Donald Trump,” Klein said.

In an invocation earlier in the night, Dr. Alan Mazurek, a ZOA officer from Long Island, said Trump’s election was “divinely driven” and that SHALINI A. RYAN, D.O. DAVID L. ROER, M.D. “once again the United States JENNIFER M. FELDMAN, M.D. GARY M. YOURA, M.D. will be blessed.” When honoree ELIZABETH A. DARKWA, M.D. MARY B. CHITWOOD, M.D. Bernie Marcus, a co-founder of The Home Depot and a Trump M. PILAR HANSON, M.D. KATHERINE H. WINGATE, M.D. supporter, mentioned The New APRIL A. BUNN, M.D. JOHN M. RAHE, M.D. York Times, the audience booed.

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Far from criticizing Bannon, ZOA had advertised that he would attend the dinner, headlining at least one email with that news. In the end, he didn’t show up. But that didn’t stop attendees from praising him.

“I like the appointment of Steve Bannon a lot,” said Justin Bender, 23, a consultant from Philadelphia. “I think he’s not afraid to say what he likes. Whether you agree or disagree with Breitbart, he ran it very well. You don’t have to agree with everything, and the content on the website, to have a great environment with everyone running it.”

Bender, like several others at the dinner, dismissed critics who say Breitbart News has published antisemitic articles, or that Bannon has tapped into antisemitic tropes in criticizing “globalists” and “international bankers.” Some said the content wasn’t antisemitic at all.

Some adopted Klein’s position that Bannon himself — who employs Jews and is pro-Israel, and under whom Breitbart News published lavishly pro-Israel articles out of its Jerusalem bureau — certainly isn’t an antisemite.

“I think Bannon is a friend of traditional American values, and he’s a friend of traditional American allies, including Israel,” said Steve Crane of Philadelphia, who co-founded a site to monitor

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like, “Donald Trump, it’s your fault; media coverage of Israel. “He has hired Muslims, he has hired Jews, he has hired Stephen Bannon, oy gevalt!” The protest was organized by IfNotNow, a Jewish traditional Americans, he has hired gays, gay Jews, all the types of diversity group that opposes the Israeli occupation. people pay homage to, but don’t do.”

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who heads the leftMore than one person explained leaning rabbinic human rights group that featuring antisemitic content was T’ruah, said she hoped the protest leads just part of Breitbart's goal of includto a robust, sustained Jewish activist ing a multiplicity of ZOA movement against perspectives in the any bigoted action by media. If outlets could Trump. present the liberal “That lack of reperspective, said Philspect will galvanize adelphian Edward more of the Jewish Mackouse, 73, white resistance to what supremacists could comes next,” she have a say, too. said. “That resistance “I think you need isn’t going to just someone strong to come from the left balance with the wing of the Jewish leftist media,” said community. It’s goMackouse, who was ing to come from the wearing a red “Make mainstream.”

America Great Again” Alan Dershowitz at the Zionist American Jews hat adorned with Organization of America dinner, Nov. 20 splintered over the pins. “I think the Jewish state long ago. Are settlements stuff we see on the left about only Black pro-Israel or anti-Israel? What about the Lives Matter, with Clinton, needs to be Iran deal? Or peace negotiations? balanced. The threats of what this does Now, it appears, the same cracks are in America, starting only Black Lives showing in how they perceive threats to Matter, gives support to the Nazis and the Jews. The ADL, while emphasizing the Ku Klux Klan in saying only white that it is “not aware of any antisemitic lives matter.”

The prospect of Bannon attending the statements made by Bannon himself,” is nonetheless troubled that Breitbart has dinner drew several hundred Jewish “served as a platform for a wide range of protestors to the hotel, chanting things

bigotry” aimed at Muslims, women and occasionally Jews. Such bigotry, it insists, cannot be ignored or forgiven because the site is also pro-Israel.

The ADL worries that if intolerance is allowed to go mainstream once again, Jews will eventually pay the price. Its statement opposing Bannon called for presidential appointees who are “committed to the well-being of all our country's people and who exemplify the values of pluralism and tolerance that makes our country great.”

The ZOA, meanwhile, counts Bannon as friend, pointing out the ways he has defended Israel, opposed the Iran nuclear deal and criticized leftists who bash Israel. And it wants to know why the ADL and other groups haven't criticized the pending appointment as Democratic National Committee chair of Rep. Keith Ellison (Minn.), whom ZOA regards as an “Israel-basher” with “ties to radical anti-Israel and antisemitic groups.” When ZOA opposes a presidential appointment, as it did Nov. 21 in denouncing Gen. James Mattis as Trump's reportedly leading candidate for secretary of defense, it focuses on the threat to what it sees as Israel's interests.

Noting statements by Mattis in support of a two-state solution and critical of the settlements, the ZOA wrote that it is “remarkable” that “Mattis expressed such a hostile attitude towards standing by our ally Israel.”

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Jews & Muslims ramp up alliances in wake of Trump’s election

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With Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency, that appears to be changing. Regardless of what’s happening across the ocean, Jews and Muslims in the United States are joining together to fight for shared domestic concerns.

“It is a perhaps growing recognition that (the IsraeliPalestinian conflict) cannot define how American Jews and American Muslims relate to one another,” said Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, the Anti-Defamation League’s director of interreligious engagement. “The shared concerns we have about

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In addition, the ADL decried “a wave of antisemitic vandalism” following the election.

In the past, differing stances and sensitivities regarding Islamic extremism or Israeli military action drove groups apart. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he hopes Jewish groups will be more willing to work with his organization following Trump’s election. Jewish groups, including the ADL, have resisted working with CAIR due to its anti-Israel stances.

“It’s always been our position that we’re open to shared and cooperative action with the Jewish community,” Hooper said. "It doesn’t really take Donald Trump to spur that. I think it’s created an urgent need for mutual cooperation between all like-minded organizations and communities.”

The newly formed Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, which has 31 members from both communities, will focus on protecting the right to wear religious head coverings, prohibiting discrimination in the workplace, recording hate crimes, and advocating for immigrants and refugees, according to Robert Silverman, the American Jewish Commit-

tee's director of Muslim-Jewish relations.

“It is a reaction to some of the bigotry and hate speech that came out of the campaign,” Silverman said. “We’re concerned about the public discourse in the whole country. We’re also concerned about messages that originated within the two communities. The Trump phenomenon is only going to make it come together more quickly.”

Jewish activists who have long championed Jewish-Muslim collaboration believe their community is finally coming around.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, co-founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, which brings together leaders from the two religions, says he hopes Jews will come to the defense of Muslims if Trump follows through on his proposals to ban Muslims from entering the country, or to create a registry of American Muslims.

In June, Schneier’s foundation launched Muslims are Speaking Out, which highlights Muslim condemnations of extremism and aims to dispel misconceptions Americans have about the Muslim community.

“We have the obstacle of greater Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric,” Schneier said. “The opportunity is that this is another test for the American Jewish community. Will it step up to the plate, and will it perform as it has done in the past?”

Meet the first Jewish governor of Missouri, a former Navy SEAL

By Gabe Friedman, JTA Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL whose seven military awards include the Bronze Star, has become the first Jewish governor of Missouri.

Greitens, 42, a Republican, also is a former Rhodes scholar and the founder of The Mission Continues, a nonprofit that helps veterans integrate themselves back into their communities through volunteer work.

On Nov. 8, Greitens — who emphasized he would rid the state capital, Jefferson City, of “bad ethics” — defeated Democrat Chris Koster with 51 percent of the vote. Koster, the state’s attorney general, received 45 percent.

“Tonight, we did more than win an election; we restored power to the people and we took our state back!”

Greitens told supporters at a hotel in Chesterfield, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

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Continued from previous page Also last year, when he was contemplating a run, Greitens spoke to JTA about his Jewish upbringing — he was raised in the Maryland Heights suburb of St. Louis and attended the Reform B’nai El synagogue — his book and his political ambitions. The interview has been condensed and edited below.

Abraham Joshua Heschel. How does Shabbat fit into your life now?

Just seven months ago, my first child, Joshua, was born, and I think for a lot of people, when you have a child, it makes you think about your Judaism. (My wife) Sheena and I try every weekend to observe the Sabbath. We’re not perfect at it, but we really try.

What are some of the other Jewish ideas or values that come up in the There probably aren’t many Jews in the book?

One of the people I quote, Solomon Navy SEALs. Is that true?

Gabirol, who was a Jewish scholar and There was one other Jewish Navy poet, said that wisdom and peace lay in SEAL that I knew when I was going being reconciled to the uncontrollable. through BUD/S, or Basic Underwater We now think of the prayer, “God grant Demolition SEAL training. The guy was me the serenity to accept the things I actually in my class, of all things. I actucannot change, courage to change the ally don’t know the exact statistics, but things I can and wisdom to I suspect that there is Jewish know the difference.” That representation in the military idea is right there in this Jewconsistent with our repreish scholar’s writing. It was sentation in the American his idea. population. Part of the reason Another one of the role I joined the military was bemodels I read about when I cause of the Jewish education was in Sunday school was I received.

Hannah Senesh. She emigratWhat’s beautiful about ed from Hungary to Palestine, the military is that it’s proband these were her words: ably the most well-integrated “One needs something to beinstitution on the planet. You lieve in, something for which have Jews and Christians and you can have whole-hearted Hindus and Buddhists and enthusiasm.” Now what she Muslims who are all serving Eric Greitens as a did later was volunteer to the U.S. Army, from every cor- Navy SEAL in Iraq parachute into a war zone ner of the United States, and to sneak behind Nazi lines and rescue they all come together and serve.

Hungarian Jews. I write about her in the chapter on happiness, in which I talk You had several positive Jewish role about how happiness is very much tied models growing up? to having a purpose that is worthy.

Yeah, I did. One guy, my teacher at There’s also a passage I quote from B’nai El Sunday School, was named Gates of Prayer (the Reform movement's Bruce Carl. When I was 16 years old, he prayer book from 1975 to 2007). In the asked me to come down to a homeless chapter about mastering pain, I menshelter to do some work. I had done a tion that people who are suffering often number of different community serturn to prayer. Some people feel weird vice projects before, so I thought, ‘OK, or guilty because they pray more when fine.’ But Bruce said, ‘We’re also going things are hard, and they feel ashamed to spend the night.’ For a 16-year-old of this. Now I find myself praying more kid from the suburbs of St. Louis, the when things are harder, but I also find prospect of spending a night in a homemyself drinking water more when I’m less shelter in downtown St. Louis was thirsty. I’ve finally begun to understand a little bit scary. But Bruce said one, you that praying more when I’m troubled need to know how all of your neighbors is just as natural. The quotation from are living, and two, it’s important to unGates of Prayer is. “Prayer cannot bring derstand that you can make a difference water to poached fields or mend a bronow in the lives of people around you. ken bridge or rebuild a ruined city, but At B'nai El, I was also influenced by prayer can water an arid soul and mend a number of Holocaust survivors who a broken heart and rebuild a weakened were brought in to talk with the (reliwill.” gious school) class. So when I was in college, ethnic cleansing was happening Do you think American society is in Bosnia. In 1994, I was 20 years old, doing enough to help veterans with I went to Bosnia and lived in refugee camps and worked there with unaccom- PTSD? Too often the response to people that panied children. These were kids who have post-traumatic stress disorder is to were separated from their parents or give them drugs. There may be a place whose parents had died during the war.

I don’t think I would have been inspired for medication in some lives, but what we found at The Mission Continues is to go to Bosnia without the Jewish eduthat having the right kinds of role modcation that I received and a number of els in your life, having the right kinds the teachers I had. of mentors and friends, having a sense of purpose, all of those things were the One passage toward the end of things that veterans actually need to live your book Resilience discusses the meaningful lives again. importance of the Sabbath and quotes PAGE 16

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Swiss government wants Jews to fund their own security costs Switzerland’s Jews need to the 18-page document, entitled fund their own security costs Report on the measures taken by even though doing so is really the federal state to combat antithe government’s responsibilsemitism in Switzerland. ity, a Swiss government agency And while Swiss Jews are at said in a report on antisemisuch risk, “there is no constitutism. tional or legal basis permitting The unusual assertion came the participation of the federal in a report published in Nostate in the costs of security vember by the Swiss interior costs to protect Jewish instituministry’s Service for the Fight tion.” against Racism.

Therefore, “Jewish organiIt prompted a zations could mixed reaction create a foundaThe unusual by the country’s tion for financassertion came Jewish coming their security munities, who costs,” the docuin a report welcomed the ment goes on to report’s naming published by the recommend. of the problem On Nov. Swiss interior but criticized its 17, the Swiss ministry’s Service Federation of failure to offer alternative solu- for the Fight Jewish Commutions. nities criticized “Where cred- against Racism. the report in a ible indications statement titled suggest that the Jewish comJewish groups remind the federal munity, Jews or Jewish institustate of its duties. tion may be targeted in violent While the report shows attacks, the state — meaning Switzerland “takes seriously the federal confederation or the fight against racism and its cantons — is positively antisemitism,” the statement duty bound to offer protecreads, it notes that Jewish tion and guarantee individual groups have already made safety, even at the expense of practical suggestions on resolvelevated expenditure of human ing the problem described in of financial resources,” states the report.

The Jewish groups “are waiting for the federal government, along with the cantons, to assume their responsibilities,” read the document.

Reacting to the proposal that Jews cover their own security costs, Herbert Winter, the president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, wrote in the statement: “This type of proposal is unacceptable to us,” because, as the report notes, “it is the state’s duty.”

In France, Switzerland’s neighbor to the west, the government is spending millions of euros every year for the protection of Jewish institutions and individuals, including the deployment of 12,000 soldiers to guard Jewish schools and other community buildings.

The deployment was initiated following the murder of four people in 2015 at a kosher store in Paris.

Some 12 people have died since 2012 in attacks on Jewish targets perpetrated by jihadists in France and Belgium.

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OPINION

‘Worst fears, best hopes’ for the Trump presidency The upset victory by Donald Trump in the 2016 elections stunned Jewish activists and leaders that are at times as divided as the electorate at large. JTA asked some of those leaders to describe their concerns and expectations.

Rabbi Jill Jacobs T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Watching a man who ran a campaign based on hatred of minorities and authoritarian threats fumble his way into the Oval Office arouses fear that something terrible is going to happen — but we don’t know when, where or exactly what.

Will our darkest fears about nuclear war come to pass? Will millions of people lose their health care?

Will we see a reversal in the gains in equality for LGBTQ people? A ramping up of attacks on women’s health care? Massive restrictions on freedom of speech, religious freedom and freedom of the press?

Irreversible climate change? Economic collapse? A break in the U.S. relationships with our allies? Even more hate speech, hate crimes, sexual assault and rape? Incompetence in the face of threatened or actual terror attacks?

My hope stems from the extraordinary resolve on the part of individuals and organizations across the country who are already committing to fight any attempts to violate human rights or erode civil liberties.

And I find hope in the history of the Jewish people, who have lived under hostile governments, suffered persecution and extermination — and have never given up hope. After all, God’s promise to Abraham ends with the assurance that even 400 years of slavery and oppression will end with liberation.

Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon Iron Dome Alliance America has repudiated a smooth-talking, disingenuous, progressive ideologue who has governed us poorly for the past eight years, replacing him with a blunt, practical purveyor of common sense.

We hope that President Trump will speak to the American people candidly about radical Islam. We expect him to remind Americans who have forgotten (or never known) prosperity about the importance of economic growth. We look forward to a restoration of the freedom of speech and the free exercise of personal conscience and faith that the Obama administration and its allies in academia and the media have attacked.

Our greatest hope for the reassertion of truth, however, is an area in which Donald Trump and his advisers have already shown greater moral clarity than perhaps any world leaders since Truman and Churchill. Trump repudiates the lies of moral equivalence (at best) between Jews building a just society and Arabs inciting genocide. Obama went out of his way to embrace the extremists of the Muslim world and signal his disdain for the Jewish state. As a direct result, during the Obama years real antisemitism — grotesque libels and actual violence — grew dramatically around the world.

We were appalled at the distinctions being made between terrorists targeting Jews and those targeting “innocent people.” During the Obama years, for the first time in our lives, we heard older Jews discuss in hushed, agonized tones how the world was beginning to resemble the 1930s and whether there was anywhere left for Jews to run now. Younger Jews became hesitant to wear yarmulkes on campuses and on the streets of major American cities. Worse still, many young Jews became the most vocal of anti-Israel propagandists, spreading the blood libels of our enemies to keep their progressive virtue intact.

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Our hope is that under Donald Trump and the Republicans, the anti-Israel, antisemitic lies of recent years will be replaced with the truth that Israel is an island of decency in a sea of violence and instability, a critical strategic ally, a beacon of liberal values, and the indigenous, eternal homeland of the Jewish people.

Our fear is the Democrats’ response. With the rise to presumptive Democratic National Committee chairmanship of Keith Ellison, a proud purveyor of the libel of occupation and oppression, the Democrats already seem to be doubling down on their antipathy toward Israel. That fear notwithstanding, we are excited about the future for the first time in many years.

For that, we thank President-elect Donald Trump.

David Bernstein President/CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs Our fears are that some of the troubling views Donald Trump stated in the campaign are not just rhetoric but a blueprint for running the country.

Our fears are that the new president will roll back environmental protections, gay rights, immigration rights and a woman’s right to choose, among other concerns.

Our fears are that the new president will show contempt for the democratic process and abuse power.

Our fears are that the new president will make disparaging remarks and undertake destructive policies that hurt vulnerable, minority communities, including Jews.

Our fears are that the new president will enable rather than oppose far right-wing forces to advance their racist agendas and poisonous rhetoric.

Our hopes are that the new president will resist the temptations above and the constituencies behind them.

Our hopes are that the moderate sentiments we heard at times, perhaps too faintly, represent his real agenda, and that the president-elect’s conciliatory acceptance speech will become the tone of a nascent administration.

Our hopes are that the new president will seek, as he indicated in the campaign, to help people struggling in the economy, by putting in place a generous student loan repayment plan for millions of Americans struggling with the high cost of college and investing billions of dollars, as he reiterated in his acceptance speech, to rebuild highways, tunnels, bridges and airports.

Our hope is that Donald J. Trump, who gave expression to the pain and dislocation of so many Americans, will use his newfound legitimacy to help them adjust to a complex and interconnected economy rather than fan the flames of resentment.

We believe two paths diverge into a wood, and that President-elect Trump can take a path that realizes our hopes and not our fears.

Susie Gelman Israel Policy Forum The election of Donald Trump and his subsequent actions have created serious concerns at Israel Policy Forum. Broadly speaking, we worry what a Trump administration portends for our country and the world.

More specifically, we fear what it may mean for the future of our already challenging mission of advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Absent such an eventual agreement, the security of the state of Israel will be threatened, its future as a Jewish and democratic state will be jeopardized, and the long-term stability of the U.S.-Israel alliance,

rooted in bipartisanship, could be irrevocably shaken.

Trump’s appointment of Stephen Bannon as his chief political strategist — someone who led an extremist publication that has promoted expressions of intolerance and hate toward a number of minority groups and has purveyed ugly and divisive rhetoric — is also cause for grave concern. The vile antisemitism unleashed during the campaign has intensified since the election.

In this grim environment, there are reasons to be hopeful that progress toward a two-state solution can be made. We look to Trump’s interview in The Wall Street Journal of Nov. 11, when he described a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “the ultimate deal.” Later he said, “As a deal maker, I’d like to do... the deal that can’t be made.”

We are cognizant that every president for nearly five decades has realized that it is in America’s interest to make progress on the two-state solution, to solve this intractable problem and to realize additional American regional priorities.

Moreover, the majority of American Jews, Israelis and Palestinians support it.

So we at IPF are not abandoning hope. We will do all that we can to provide resources to illuminate a path forward and to stand up for what is right.

We pledge to support any helpful efforts by the Trump administration to move toward a two-state future and to oppose any harmful steps that do the opposite.

Rabbi Jack Moline Executive director, Interfaith Alliance I fear that the Donald Trump we saw in the campaign will be the person who serves as our next president.

We are just now starting to see what the incoming administration will look like, but already the choice of Stephen Bannon as chief strategist is a clear indication that concerns about Trump — among Jews and people of all faiths and no faith — are well-founded. The earnest discussions of my younger days about hypothetical changes to civil rights laws and protections are no longer intellectual exercises.

Time is of the essence. We cannot afford to wait and see if President Trump makes good on his campaign promises to roll back religious freedom protections, LGBT rights, protections against discrimination, the rights of Muslim Americans and so much more.

And we have already seen that the “religious right” is willing to be complicit in the face of bullying and bigotry if its agenda of legislating love and intimacy is supported.

The Interfaith Alliance and others are working to unite diverse voices to challenge extremism and build common ground.

The country is in desperate need of reconciliation and healing even as we stand guard against efforts to undermine precious rights and freedoms. My firm belief is that what unites us is far more powerful than what divides us, and no president is powerful enough to change that fact.

For that to remain a reliable truth, we must listen to and protect each other.

So, what do you think?

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The Power of Oui Jewish Federation of GREATER DAYTON › Innovation Grants Applications for the next cycle of the Innovation Grant will be available January 6. for programs taking place July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018.

Please contact Jodi Phares at 610-5513 or jphares@ jfgd.net to request an application. › Dayton Holocaust Resource Center The Dayton Holocaust Resource Center is happy to announce that they have received a grant from the Dayton Foundation to re-print the Faces of the Holocaust brochure on display at the Prejudice and Memory exhibit at the National Museum of the US Air Force. The brochures are available now and can be mailed upon request.

This project was funded by a grant from the Leon Norman and Mildred Miriam Nizny Memorial Fund of the Dayton Foundation.

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

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The Power of Oui, the Women's Philanthropy brunch, highlighted the stories of some of the women in our own community as well as that of Jennifer Korach, a Cleveland native who lived in Paris during the terroist attacks of 2015. Thanks to our committee members (Elaine Bettman, Jean Bettman, Michele Dritz, Beverly Farnbacher, Juliet Glaser, Lynn Goldenberg, Helene Gordon, & Linda Horenstein) and all who attended, it was a meaningful event.

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The 2016 Annual Campaign is winding down.

If you have already made your gift, please know how appreciative we are of your generosity. If you have not made your gift, there is still time! Through December 31, you have the opportunity to make a difference for fellow Jews locally, in Israel, and around the world. Your gift allows us to provide a plethora of programs and services, such as: » A lifeline for seniors in our community, to make sure they are safe and well cared for in their golden years » A home away from home for college students through Hillel

» Educational programming, with topics such as how antiSemitism is affecting Jews all around the globe and the BDS movement on college campuses » Social services for families in need » Youth programs, including Early Childhood Care & Education and Camp Shalom » Cultural arts programs, including the Cultural Arts and Book Festival, the Dayton Jewish Film Festival, and special arts programs » Transportation for seniors in our community

your gift will touch lives in the worldwide Jewish community.

The Annual Campaign is what allows the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton to provide these services in the coming years. All of our programs ~ whether through the Federation, Jewish Community Center, or Jewish Family Services ~ rely on dollars from the Annual Campaign to keep going.

So your gift now will ensure we can continue to provide

essential services to the Jewish community here and abroad in the coming months.

To make your 2016 Annual Campaign gift, call 610-1555 or email Caryl Segalewitz at csegalewitz@jfgd.net. You may also go online and donate at www.jewishdayton.org.

With your generous support, we create one powerful gift, guided by one connected heart to provide for one global Jewish community.

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› The Muralist Tuesday, December 6 7PM @ Wright Memorial Public

night of CABF. PHOTO CREDIT:

Library (1776 Far Hills Ave., 45419) New York Times bestselling author B.A. Shapiro is a master at telling a gripping story while exploring provocative themes. No charge. Author Sponsor: Wright Memorial Public Library.

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The Best Place on Earth Thursday, December 8 7PM @ Dayton Woman's Club

(225 N. Ludlow St., 45402) Join author Ayelet Tsabari for light noshes and a cash bar in an intimate setting as she discusses her short stories and the characters within them. $5 in advance/$8 at the door

› Community Chanukah Celebration Monday, December 12 5:30-7:30PM

@ Boonshoft CJCE Partnering with Beth Abraham, Beth Jacob, Chabad, Hillel, Temple Beth Or, Temple Israel

› Book Club Friday, December 16 10:30AM–NOON @ Temple

Israel (130 Riverside Dr., 45405) Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain. RSVP to Cheryl Lewis at 320-9962.

BBYO–KIO Regional Convention in Cincinnati!

BBYO’s next regional convention is coming up January 13–16. It will be a weekend filled with friendship, Judaism, and leadership. This is one of the most anticipated weekends of the year among BBYO teens.

BBYO has been helping develop confident, engaged, and well-prepared teenagers for over 85 years. Our programs provide innovative opportunities and a stress-free environment that allows teens to customize their experience and grows with them to accommodate their changing needs.

BBYO provides safe and enriching programs that the teens design themselves, fostering independent thinking and leadership abilities that will help prepare them for college and beyond.

BBYO brings together thousands of Jewish teens from all over the world to share experiences that build character and friendships that last a lifetime.

BBYO exposes teens to Jewish culture, history and practice and introduces new ways to help them apply Jewish principles to contemporary life.

For more information about Dayton BBYO, please contact Meryl Hattenbach at 401-1550 or Dayton@bbyo.org.

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Shalom campers, staff and CIT’s get together for an afternoon of bowling. We can’t wait to see each other again at winter camp in December!

BELOW: Henry Drerup, Wren Luebke, Vivian Klass, Lena Elder, and Noah Miller help their class lead kiddush at Early Childhood's Share Shabbat.

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› Winter Camp December 19–December 30 8:45AM–3:45PM @ Boonshoft

CJCE For more details, please refer to ad on page 37.

series of Mah Jongg lessons which will be taught by Cathy Gardner, our CEO! Fight those winter blues by learning to play a game that is fun and exciting! Originating in China, this 152 tile game is fascinating.

Join us on December 13, 15, 20, 22 from 6–7:30PM at the CJCE. The $25 fee includes rules and book.

Call Karen at 937-610-1555 to sign up today! RSVP by Thursday, December 8.

NEW! Beginners Bridge lessons Thursdays, January 12–February 16, 1–3PM @ Boonshoft CJCE $90; $110 after Jan. 10. Minimum of 12 people. Contact Sandy Forsythe at 640-1665 or majslf@aol.com

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Game Night @ the J

Saturday, December 17 7:30–9:30PM RSVPs are due at least 1 week before event. Events with no price listed are free.

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Bring your favorite board game to play and share with friends as we enjoy a colorful night of cardboard competition! $5/person or $3 if you bring a food item to donate RSVP TO MERYL HATTENBACH @ 401-1550 OR mhattenbach@jfgd.net.

FRIENDS DRIVE

If you have not received a letter about the JFS Friends Drive in the mail and you would like to make a donation, please contact Shay Shenefelt at 401-1551. We are asking for donations to be made by December 31.

On October 19, JFS had a wonderful turnout for L’Chaim 2016: Companionship is Ageless. We screened Steven Loring’s poignant, humorous documentary The Age of Love at The Neon, and then had an insightful panel discussion about the importance of companionship.

Thank you panel members: Randi Levinson, Sexologist; Sylvia Pla-Raith, Director, Elder Justice Unit- Consumer Protection Section, Office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine; Jerry Mallicoat, Board Moderator from Rainbow Elder Care; Bonnie Orlins, LISW from Hospice of Dayton; Jan Couchman, Past President from PFLAG Dayton!

Jewish Family Services Jewish Foundation ofof GREATER DAYTON GREATER DAYTON Thursday, December 1 › Medicare Check Up Day 9AM–3PM @ St. Leonard

Franciscan Center (8100 Clyo Rd, 45458) Bring a list of current prescription drugs. Call 4326549 for an appointment.

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Sunday, December 11 › JFS Chanukah Brunch 11AM @ Beth Jacob Synagogue

(7020 N. Main Street, 45415) RSVP by December 2. Cost is $12.50 per person. Your payment is your reservation.

Did you know? JFS makes interest free student loans available to students attending both undergraduate and graduate programs!

Student loans are available courtesy of the Lillian E. Finn Memorial Student Loan Fund and the Cantor Student Loan Fund. Applications will be available beginning on December 12, for undergraduate or graduate students who are Dayton residents. Awarded annually, the loans are distributed based on academic achievement,

financial need, and funds available. These student loans are interest free and repayment is to commence six months after graduation.

For 2017, we again consolidated the student loan applications and the Heuman Scholarship application. You may apply for one or both.

If you have any questions about student loans, please

contact Shay Shenefelt at sshenefelt@jfgd.net or 401-1551. To request an application, please contact Alisa Thomas at athomas@jfgd.net or 610-1796. Completed applications and supporting documentation must be received by March 17. Awards will be announced on April 7.

On November 9, the Active Adults enjoyed dinner and friends at MCL before attending the CABF event THE ANGEL: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel.

Don’t forget to join the Active Adults, Hadassah, the Jewish War Veterans and the Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club for a Chanukah Brunch on Sunday, December 11. See Sidebar for details.

In partnership with Active Adults, Hadassah, Jewish War Veterans, and the Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club.

Sunday, December 25 › Intergenerational Mitzvah Event 10AM @ Boonshoft CJCE All ages are welcome to join us for light noshes, a story, and making scarves and sack lunches for those in need! No Cost.

Please RSVP by December 16.

› 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-resourceconnect/ to find supports and services provided by Jewish agencies nationwide. › Don’t know what to donate in the Food Barrels? How about non-perishable, nonexpired meat/high protein foods? For example: CANNED MEATS (chicken, meat spreads), CANNED FISH (tuna, salmon, sardines, other fish), NUTS & SEEDS, RICE & BEANS PLEASE CONTACT KAREN STEIGER REGARDING ALL EVENTS: 610-1555

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A little bit of Yiddish to share with friends, courtesy of the JFS Yiddish Club, in memory of Lynda A. Cohen.

Dreyen \DREY-en\ Verb To turn, twist, twirl, rotate; dial (a number); cheat.

Expression with dreyen: › Es gefelt mir azoy vi um Purim a dreydl. It's just about as pleasing to me as a dreydl on Purim (i.e. not at all). › Men dreyt mit yenem azoy lang, biz men fardreyt zikh aleyn. If you mess with people long enough, you yourself will get confused. › Nisht dos hitl iz fardreyt, nor der kop. It's not the hat which is confused; rather, the head.

Sunday, December 11 › Chanukah Brunch 11AM @ Beth Jacob

Synagogue (7020 N. Main Street, 45415) RSVP by December 2. Cost is $12.50 per person. Your payment is your reservation.

In partnership with JFS Active Adults, Hadassah, Jewish War Veterans, and the Lynda A. Cohen Yiddish Club.

On December 12, applications will be available for the following scholarships: RESIDENTIAL CAMP SCHOLARSHIP: Funds are available for local youths planning to participate in a Jewish residential camp program during the summer of 2017. This scholarship is made possible through the Joan and Peter Wells Family, Children and Youth Fund.

TRAVEL TO ISRAEL SCHOLARSHIP: Dayton area Jewish teens and young adults, ages 14-21, are invited to apply for the Wolfe Marcus Trust Youth Travel to Israel Scholarship. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and plan to travel to Israel during the summer of 2017.

COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: Since its creation in 2006, the Vicky & Robert Heuman Scholarship has been awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates both academic achievement and financial need. The scholarship is open to Jewish Dayton area residents.

If you have any questions, or would like to request an application, please contact Alisa Thomas at 610-1796 or athomas@jfgd.net. Completed applications and supporting documentation must be received by March 17, 2017. Awards will be announced on April 7.

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» In addition to scholarship opportunities, the Jewish Foundation of Greater Dayton offers interest free student loans to eligible college students to help defray the costs of college education. Contact Tara Feiner at tfeiner@jfgd.net or 401-1546 for more information.

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LINDA RUCHMAN MEMORIAL FUND IN HONOR OF › Speedy and complete recovery of Ron Bernstein Judy and Marshall Ruchman SAMMY’S FUND IN HONOR OF › The creation of Sammy’s Fund Rita Solko Sara Brown IN MEMORY OF › Casey and Sammy Melissa and Tim Sweeny › Paul Vest Jean and Todd Bettman CAROL J. PAVLOFSKY LEADERSHIP FUND IN HONOR OF › Rick Carne receiving the NCCJ Humanitarian Award Maureen and Don Patterson FOUNDATION

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Bubbles in the Sukkah On Thursday, October 20, JCC Early Childhood joined PJ Library for “Bubbles in the Sukkah”.

Parents and grandparents joined the preschoolers for a Sukkot story and plenty of bubbles. The rain kept us from going outside into the sukkah, but it didn’t keep us from having a blast inside! LEFT: Rolana Dorf RIGHT: Kate and Lena Elder PHOTO CREDIT: EMILY SNYDER

For more information about PJ Library or to enroll a child, please contact Juliet Glaser @ jglaser@jfgd.net or 937-401-1541.

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LIFECYCLES

KVELLING CORNER Reach Out Montgomery County, a nonprofit agency providing health care services for Montgomery County residents who are underserved or uninsured, dedicated its new pharmacy in honor of retired pharmacist Joe Bettman on Nov. 15. For many years, Bettman’s Pharmacy was the only pharmacy that served residents of West Dayton and

Weprin-Rosenberg Michael and Karen Weprin are thrilled to announce the engagement of their daughter, Allie Hilary Weprin, to Eric Jordan Rosenberg. Eric is the son of Amy Rosenberg and the late Hal Rosenberg of South Florida. Allie graduated from Indiana University, then earned a master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University. She works at a center for children with autism. Eric graduated from Vanderbilt University and is working for Fusian Inc. Sharing in the couple's happiness are their grandparents Edith Kane and the late Sam Kane of Franklin, Mich., Cinnie and Dick Neff of Centerville, the late Pookie and Chuck Weprin of Jupiter, Fla., Rowena and Burton Kovler of Boca Raton, Herb Rosenberg of Miami, and Elizabeth Halpern Ekstein of Boynton Beach. Allie and Eric currently reside in Columbus.

A July wedding in Snowmass, Colo. is planned.

Rachel Haug Gilbert western Montgomery County.

In 2011, after 56 years of service, Bettman retired and closed the pharmacy. “There are unsung heroes in every community,” said Sharon Sherlock, executive director of Reach Out Montgomery. “Truly, his spirit of giving embodies the mission

of Reach Out.” Reach Out Montgomery County provides clinical services including pediatric care, adult care and specialty clinics, and the Bettman Charitable Pharmacy.

Scene75 won the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions’ award for Best Family Entertainment Center in North America on Nov. 16 at the IAAPA Expo in Orange County, Fla. Jonah Sandler is Scene75’s CEO — chief entertainment officer.

“As I sat at our award finalist table and heard Scene75 was ultimately named the winner, a few tears rolled from my eyes knowing all the time, energy and passion my family and I, along with our team, have poured into this family-owned business since the planning began for our first location back in 2009,” Sandler posted on Facebook after winning the award. Scene75 has locations in Dayton and Cincinnati.

Elaine and Joe Bettman at the dedication of the Bettman Charitable Pharmacy of Reach Out Montgomery County on Nov. 15

Cadi Polk’s map, Miami Valley Regional Vacancy Profile, won the People’s Choice Award in the Map Gallery competition at the annual statewide GIS Conference in September.

Cadi’s profile presented a series of maps, charts and graphics into a poster-sized infographic to give the reader a comprehensive look at the state of residential and business vacancies in the Miami Valley region.

The Air Force has promoted Michael Rosenof to major.

Rosenof is stationed at WrightPatterson Air Force Base and works at the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Aaron Michael Hirschkatz Scene75’s CEO, Jonah Sandler (front, L) and his team receive the Adam and Yuliya Hirschkatz award for Best Family Entertainment Center in North America gave birth to a baby boy on Oct. 6 in Chicago. The baby’s name is Aaron Michael, Hebrew name Ephraim. Proud paternal grandparents are Neil Katz and rust urst Karin Hirschkatz of Dayton, with your and Greg and Jean Polyachenko of Detroit. hanukah

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Alex Katz Jacobson, an attorney with Berger Schatz in Chicago, was recently named to 40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch. The program recognizes attorneys whose professional reputations have won the respect of their

professional peers. Alex specializes in complex family law settlements and litigation.

She has been named to the peer-recommended Leading Lawyers Network every year since 2013, and selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, in 2009, 2011-2013, and 2016. Alex is the daughter of Susie and Eddie Katz, and the granddaughter of Lois and the late Gilbert Unger, and Larry and the late Bubbles (Barbara) Katz.

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Community Chanukah Celebration Monday, December 12, 5:30–7:30PM @ Boonshoft CJCE A collaboration between the JCC, Beth Abraham Synagogue, Beth Jacob Synagogue, Chabad, Hillel Academy, Temple Beth Or, & Temple Israel

Join us for our community-wide celebration as we gather together to celebrate the festival of lights! Enjoy a warm and cozy meal of vegetarian chili, mac and cheese, soup and traditional Jewish delights: latkes and sufganiyot!

Family-friendly entertainment with Zoot Theatre Company!

IN ADVANCE:

$6 adult | $3 child AT THE DOOR:

$8 adult | $5 child

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Classes

JCC Art Appreciation Class: Fridays, 10-11 a.m. through Dec. 16. Art of Japan: Past and Present, The Art of America.

Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

JCC Fitness: Aerobic Conditioning.

Tues. & Thurs. through Dec. 8, 9-9:50 a.m. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Temple Beth Or Classes: Sun., Dec. 4, 11 & 18, 1 p.m.: Adult Hebrew w. Rabbi Chessin. Thurs., Dec. 8, 1 p.m.: Socrates Café. Sat., Dec. 17, 10 a.m.: Torah/ Talmud Study & service w. Rabbi Chessin.

Coffee & bagels provided. Sun., Dec. 18, 10:30 a.m.: Adult Education, How Israeli Music Defeats ISIS. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400.

Temple Israel Classes: Sun., Dec. 11, noon: Reform Responsa for the 21st Century. Wednesdays, noon: Talmud Study. Bring lunch. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.: Torah Study. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

496-0050.

Discussions

Temple Israel Ryterband Lectures: Sundays, 9:45 a.m. breakfast, 10:15 a.m. lecture. Dec. 11: Dayton Philharmonic Music Director Neal Gittleman. $7. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton. 496-0050.

JCC Book Club: Friday, Dec. 16, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain. Hosted by Cheryl Lewis.

Temple Israel, 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

For info., call Cheryl at 320-9962.

Children & Teens

Temple Beth Or Summer Camp Shabbat in December: with musician/ songwriter Alan Goodis. Fri., Dec. 9, 7 p.m.: Service & campfire s’mores, Oneg Shabbat followed by overnight for regional NFTY youth groups. Sat., Dec. 10, 10 a.m.: Breakfast Shabbat Experience for teens w. Goodis. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. Open to all Dayton Jewish teens. R.S.V.P. to Temple Beth Or, 4353400.

Ayelet Tsabari: Thurs., Dec. 8, 7 p.m.

Dayton Woman’s Club, 225 N. Ludlow St., Dayton. $5 in advance, $8 at door.

R.S.V.P. to 610-1555.

Seniors

JFS Chanukah Brunch: partnering w. Active Adults, Yiddish Club, JWV, Hadassah. Sun., Dec. 11, 11 a.m. Beth Jacob Synagogue, 7020 N. Main St., Harrison Twp. $12.50 in advance, $15 at door. R.S.V.P. to Karen Steiger, 610-1555.

Chanukah

Temple Beth Or Chanukah Bazaar: Sun., Dec. 11, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Wed., Dec. 14, 4:30-6:30 p.m. 5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400.

Community Chanukah Celebration: Mon., Dec. 12, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville.

Dinner, family entertainment. $6 adult/$3 child in advance, $8 adult/$5 child at door.

R.S.V.P. to 610-1555.

Temple Israel Chanukah Happening: Sun., Dec. 18, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Temple Israel Religious School performances, lunch. $5 adults, $3 children 4-12, 3 and under free. 130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

496-0050.

Chabad Chinese Chanukah Dinner: Sat., Dec. 24, 7:30 p.m. 2001 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. For more info., go to chabaddayton.com.

Chabad Chanukah Bowl: Sun., Dec. 25, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Capri Lanes, 2727 S. Dixie Dr., Kettering. $10. R.S.V.P. at chabaddayton.com.

Beth Abraham Synagogue Chanukah Dinner & Celebration: Sun., Dec. 25, 5 p.m. $10 adults, $6 children 3-12.

Bring menorahs. 305 Sugar Camp Cir., Oakwood. R.S.V.P. to 293-9520.

Temple Israel Chanukah Outing to TopGolf: Thurs., Dec. 28, 4:45-8:15 p.m. $40 temple members/$60 non-members.

Includes transportation to TopGolf in West Chester, two hours of games, appetizers and beverages. R.S.V.P. to Temple Israel, 496-0050.

Game Night at the J: for grades 6-8. Sat., Community Events Dec. 17, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Boonshoft CJCE, Temple Israel Day of Learning: Sun., Dec. 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 130 Riverside Dr., 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. $5 or $3 Dayton. 496-0050. with a food donation. R.S.V.P. to Meryl Hattenbach, 401-1550.

Beth Jacob Synagogue Rabbi in Residence Weekend: w. Rabbi Adam JCC Winter Camp Shalom: for grades Rosenthal. Fri., Dec. 16, 5:30 p.m.

K-6 (grades 7-9 CIT positions). Dec. followed by dinner. Sat., Dec. 17, 9:30 19-30. For info., call Meryl Hattenbach, a.m. $18 for dinner. 7020 N. Main St., 401-1550.

Harrison Twp. R.S.V.P. to 274-2149.

JCC Cultural Arts & Book Fest

B.A. Shapiro: Tues., Dec. 6, 7 p.m.

Wright Memorial Public Library, 1776 Far Hills Ave., Oakwood. Free. For info., call 610-1555.

Jewish Family Services Intergenerational Mitzvah Event: Sun., Dec. 25, 10 a.m.-noon. Make scarves and sack lunches for those in need.

Snack & story included. Boonshoft CJCE, 525 Versailles Dr., Centerville. R.S.V.P. to 610-1555 by Dec. 16.

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JEWISH FAMILY EDUCATION

What’s your MIQ?

and deed — an expectation of goodness.

Moral intelligence is recognizing right and wrong, developing moral and ethical convictions based on that knowledge, and doing the right and honorable thing.

The originators of the conCharacter development cept, Doug Lennick and Fred expert Michele Borba concurs: Kiel, and current expert Borba “Kids not only (need to) think agree: moral intelligence is a morally but also act morally... learned skill, not an inborn unless children know how to trait, beginning with moral act right, their moral develophabits and advancing to moral ment is defective. After all, reasoning. we’ve always known that the The biggest challenge to true measure of character rests moral intelligence is the growin our actions — not in mere ing influence of relativism, the thoughts.” Or, I would add, not notion that all points of view in mere feelings. are equally valid and that there A parenting goal of good is no objective standard of truth character doesn’t mean downor morality. playing academic achievement, The individual becomes the athletic or artistic excellence, measure of what is good: what extracurricular participation, is right for (or preferred or or any of the liked by) the self The most meaningful must be good. If endeavors of one simply inimportant youth. tends to do good goal of raising However, for others, that none of these is enough, irchildren must be too activities leads respective of the building moral to goodness. consequences.

After all, some In contrast, intelligence. of the most Judaism and the intellectual and Judeo-Christian accomplished individuals are tradition affirm moral absolutes morally bankrupt. Thus, the established by the transcendent most important goal of raiswisdom of the Bible, whose foing children must be building cus is personal and communal moral intelligence. character. It provides an objecBorba concludes that the tive set of ethical principles and “habits and beliefs of Moral Inmoral obligations, emphasizes telligence we instill in our kids doing good over feeling good, now…will greatly decide our and weighs good outcomes children’s moral destinies and over intentions. Without such a will be our greatest legacy.” blueprint, we can’t even begin This means that parents to build Moral Intelligence. need to consciously and overtly In her book Raising a Mensch, communicate — through word Shelley Rosenberg identifies

Back to basics series

If you could guarantee your child would be one of the following, which would you most want him or her to be: happy, good, successful or smart? First described by commentator Dennis Prager, this exercise has a second part. “Ask your children — whether they are 5 or

Candace R. Kwiatek 45 — what they think you most want them to be: happy, good, successful or smart.”

Many parents are surprised by their children’s answers, Prager notes. While most parents want their kids to be good above all else, “kids didn’t think that being good mattered to most parents.”

Parents’ job isn’t to make children feel good. Their primary task is to bring up children — and ultimately the adults they become — to be individuals of good character who do good. In other words, menschen.

This is the Torah’s message throughout: “Do what is good and right”— love the stranger, give tzedakah, show kindness to animals, care for the needy, refrain from stealing, lying, and gossiping, and the list goes on.

four easy-to-remember techniques for teaching moral intelligence: modeling, verbalizing, engaging, and supporting.

In Borba’s numerous books and articles, these techniques come to life in specific suggestions for developing moral habits and reasoning.

Here are some examples: “Become the living textbook of morality that you want your child to copy…Take time to tell and show kids how to be kind — never assume they have that knowledge…Catch your child acting morally by describing what she did right and why you appreciate it…Talk about moral issues as they come up, so your child can hear your moral beliefs…If you want your child to act morally, then expect moral behaviors from her…Surround your child with people of high character.”

“A mensch is someone esteemable, and true esteem is from recognition of doing good,” notes Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. “Parents and adults should reserve their highest

praise for goodness, indicating that being a good person is what matters most.”

When a child misses the mark, responding with only a gentle admonishment followed by encouragement is particularly effective. My favorite expression is the Yiddish “Es pas nisht,” “This does not become you,” or “It isn’t like you to behave in this way,” followed by a reassurance that the child will do better next time.

Finally, in those moments when a youngster doesn’t “feel like” being a mensch, you can teach an important life lesson by remarking, “Wanting to isn’t required.”

Of the seven questions everyone will be asked upon arriving in heaven, the first will be about moral goodness: “Did you deal honestly with people in your business practices?”

Perhaps we should be less concerned about whether our children are happy, successful, or smart, and focus more on their Moral Intelligence Quotient.

Literature to share Hanukkah Cookies with Sprinkles by David Adler. The Festival of Lights and Shabbat get a new twist in this illustrated book for elementary ages. Featuring a non-nuclear family and a multi-ethnic urban neighborhood, the story focuses on values of caring, generosity, and welcoming guests. The illustrations are delightful.

Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism As We Know It by Burton Visotzky. Although Jewish tradition characterizes Ancient Rome as the enemy, Visotzky argues that the Judaism we know today was founded in Roman culture, whose influences are still in evidence. Although the topic is deep, the engaging style and fascinating ideas that span history, religion, and the arts will keep the reader fully engaged.

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RELIGION

CONGREGATIONS Beth Abraham Synagogue Conservative Rabbi Joshua Ginsberg Cantor/Dir. of Ed. & Programming Andrea Raizen Monday through Friday 6:50 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Fri., 5:30 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.

Sundays at 8:30 a.m. 305 Sugar Camp Circle, Oakwood. 293-9520.

BethAbrahamDayton.org Beth Jacob Congregation Traditional Saturdays 9:30 a.m., Sundays 8 a.m., Sunday through Friday, 7 p.m.

7020 N. Main St., Dayton. 274-2149.

BethJacobCong.org Temple Anshe Emeth Reform Sat., Dec. 3, 10 a.m.

Rabbinic Intern Sara Otero-Eiser 320 Caldwell St., Piqua.

Call Eileen Litchfield, 937-5470092, elitchfield@woh.rr.com.

Correspondence address: 3808 Beanblossom Rd., Greenville, OH 45331. ansheemeth.org Temple Beth Or Reform Rabbi Judy Chessin Educator/Rabbi Ari Ballaban Fridays 7 p.m.

Saturdays 10 a.m.

5275 Marshall Rd., Wash. Twp. 435-3400. templebethor.com Temple Beth Sholom Reform Rabbi Haviva Horvitz See Web site for schedule.

610 Gladys Dr., Middletown.

513-422-8313. thetemplebethsholom.com Temple Israel Reform Senior Rabbi Karen Bodney-Halasz Rabbi/Educator Tina Sobo First Friday each month 6 p.m. followed by Share Shabbat meal.

All other Fridays, 6:30 p.m.

Saturdays 10:30 a.m.

130 Riverside Dr., Dayton.

496-0050. tidayton.org Temple Sholom Reform Rabbi Cary Kozberg Fridays 6 p.m.

2424 N. Limestone St., Springfield. 399-1231. templesholomoh.com

ADDITIONAL SERVICES Chabad of Greater Dayton Rabbi Nochum Mangel Associate Rabbi Shmuel Klatzkin Youth & Prog. Dir. Rabbi Levi Simon. Beginner educational service Saturdays 9 a.m. adults, 10 a.m children. Sundays 9 a.m.

2001 Far Hills Ave. 643-0770. www.chabaddayton.com Yellow Springs Havurah Independent Services 1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10-noon. Antioch College Rockford Chapel. Contact Cheryl Levine, 937-767-9293.

Chanukah is a major holiday

By Rabbi Nochum Mangel Director, Chabad of Greater Dayton As we approach this time of year, you may hear people saying that Chanukah is really a minor Jewish holiday. They may be basing their judgment on any one of the following points, alone or in combination: • Chanukah has no big central feast, like Pesach. Latkes and sufganiot are not in the same league as the Seder.

• Chanukah does not involve a long day of prayer like Yom Kippur or even like Rosh Hashanah.

• Chanukah doesn’t keep us up all night in study, like Shavuot.

Perspectives

• Chanukah doesn’t require us to build a special structure and move our lives outdoors like Sukkot.

• Chanukah is not marked with a climactic Torah reading and spectacular celebration like Simchat Torah.

• Chanukah has no restrictions on our doing business or other weekday affairs, as Shabbat and the Torah’s festivals do — we go about our lives as usual.

• Chanukah is not commanded by the Torah or one of the prophets of God. It was just instituted by the rabbis.

• And, following from the last idea, Shabbat and the Torah’s festivals come from God, whereas Chanukah comes from mere humans.

This is quite a bill of particulars, and at first glance, seems to be persuasive. It is not just that there are so many ways in which Chanukah seems lesser, it is that there seems to be a simple and clear explanation for why this is so.

Expressed in the last reason above is the key idea that is the cause and source of each item on the list: all those distinctions are true because Chanukah is of merely human origin, and therefore, it is of only derivative importance at best.

But it is precisely its rabbinic and human origin that makes Chanukah major.

The Torah is about a covenant, a relationship. And a relationship is not just about one partner, even if that partner is incomparably greater than the

other. examples of how, The Torah is not just about in a legal sense, the perfect God instituting greater gravity is major laws and teaching major given to rabbinic ideas. It is about God being doctrine than that received by us and God’s mesof Scripture. sage and love internalized and Why is that made our own, as well. so? Looking at It is about us, inspired by that Midrash in God’s taking the initiative as a mystical mode, well, initiating our own authe commentator thentic response to God. Maharzo explains The most important thing in that Scripture the Torah is not God’s supereveals the pure riority, which is a given, but godly potential our own choice to make the for all good things, whereas the relationship rabbis bring these godly with God the ideas down into this most important world, to engage it and thing in our shape it decisively and lives by using concretely. the power In other words, the placed in our rabbis were internalizing hands to initiGod’s teachings and comate our own mands and then taking inspired holy the initiative. Only so and positive can God’s desire to have actions. a covenantal relation be Rabbi Nochum Mangel Let’s deactualized. mystify this idea by putting it The perfect words of Scripin the ordinary terms of our ture have not civil society. What is the more yet found their important act: sending our way to being mother a card on the officially more than a designated day for moms, or potential, but our choosing to respect her the words of the every day of our lives? rabbis are alIs the most important thing ready the Covto eat a turkey and watch footenant actualized ball on Thanksgiving, or is it to in our hearts instill the trait of gratitude in and souls and in our character permanently? the world, here The rabbis express the idea and now. in the Midrash: “The scholTaking that ars said in the name of Rabbi initiative is the major task in Yochanan: ‘The words of the each of our lives.

Sages are even more beloved to At the time of the Chanukah God than the words of Torah story, Judaism and Jews were (Shir Hashirim Rabba 1:2:8).’” under attack in our Holy Land.

The rabbis there give several The Jews did not wait for God

to fix the situation, but took action out of their own fully internalized love for God and Jewish life.

They chose to set aside the normal considerations of politics and power and chose to make God’s mission the major factor in their lives instead.

They took the initiative.

They dedicated their “lives and fortune and sacred honor” to the cause of the Covenant — and God responded to them, with the blessings of victory and of the miracle of the lights.

Every generation faces the same choice.

Judaism and the Land of Israel are under attack today as well.

It is the major message of Chanukah that we today too should choose to take the initiative, becoming active partners in the Covenant by facing this evil with faith, resolution and courage. There is nothing more important in all of Jewish life.

It is precisely its rabbinic and human origin that makes Chanukah major.

December • Kislev/Tevet Shabbat Candle Lightings December 2 4:54 p.m.

December 9 4:54 p.m.

December 16 4:56 p.m.

December 23 4:59 p.m.

December 30 5:04 p.m.

Torah Portions December 3 Toledot (Gen. 25:19-28:9) December 10 Vayetze (Gen. 28:10-32:3) December 17 Vayishlach (Gen. 32:4-36:43) December 24 Vayeshev (Gen. 37:1-40:23) December 31 Miketz (Gen. 41:1-44:17; Num. 7:48-59)

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Chanukah

Festival of Lights

Dec. 25-Jan. 1 25 Kislev-2 Tevet Eight-day holiday commemorating Jewish victory over the Syrian-Greeks and the miracle of the rededication of the Temple. One day’s oil for the Temple’s light lasted eight days. A chanukiah (menorah) is lit for eight nights, and latkes (potato pancakes) are fried in oil to commemorate the story. Children play with dreidels, and gifts are exchanged.

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RELIGION

How I learned to love Chanukah for what it is

By Randi Skaggs, JTA When people find out I’m a Jew by choice (otherwise known as a convert), one of the first questions I get is, “Was it hard to give up Christmas?”

The short answer is yes.

Christmas seeps into your soul and is a primary part of every Christian person’s happiest childhood memory log.

Could I give up a tree in the corner of the house? Red, green and gold presents heaped on a velvet skirt under the limbs?

The adorable ornaments?

Stockings hung on the chimney mantle (or, in my childhood chimneyless home, on the wood paneling)? The carols! The mistletoe! The gingerbread houses!

How could I give all that up?

It was a process, and one that I wasn’t too happy about at

first. I won’t get into my reasons for choosing to be a Jew, mostly because I consider spirituality deeply personal, and I by no means consider my choices to be the “true” ones or the only path.

But please rest assured, before I go any further, that this choice came after years and years of soul-searching, an intensive class taught by a wonderful rabbi, prayer after prayer, symbolic dreams, and a happy heart. It had nothing to do with my husband, who happens to be a Jew. I just happened to mostly be attracted to Jewish guys, which I later found out is fairly common for those of us also attracted to Judaism.

So, back to Christmas.

My first Christmas as a Jew was incredibly difficult. All the

Wishing you a Happy Chanukah.

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traditions that had, at one point, been my traditions, were others’ now, and I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do.

Although I’d never been too vigilant about decorating my tiny New York City apartment for Christmas throughout my 20s, I suddenly found myself yearning for a tree and lights. I wanted to blast the carols throughout the apartment. I needed to make a batch of Alton Brown’s eggnog — stat!

So I did what every good convert does — I clung onto Chanukah like a life preserver.

If I couldn’t have Christmas, by God, I’d make the most out of this other holiday.

And frankly, that’s how I viewed it — the “other” holiday, the substitute Christmas. No tree? Well, then, I’d hang some blue and white lights around the window. No stockings?

That’s OK, I’d find the most beautiful menorah in town. No holly? An assortment of dreidels would have to suffice.

We ate homemade latkes with applesauce and sour cream every night. I demanded we play dreidel all eight days — even though it was just Dave and me and no kids — and we ate the chalky gelt that I picked up at the nearby drug store humorlessly.

I wanted to give eight gifts, but Dave told me that was a bit extravagant for just two people, so we just gave one gift the first night. We sang the only two Chanukah songs we knew — The Dreidel Song and Chanukah Oh Chanukah — on an endless loop and always at my request.

I was trying to get that same Christmas feeling throughout it all, and it just didn’t happen.

Finally, I gave up, bought a peppermint mocha latte at Starbucks and locked myself in the bathroom to sing Deck the Halls while weeping like an idiot.

As the years went on, it got easier to view Christmas as belonging to others, but my love for Chanukah was stagnant.

Every year in December, I’d watch the evergreen go up, I’d hear songs about peace and joy in every store, and I’d resignedly polish our menorah and buy those tiny bags of overpriced gelt.

When our daughter Stella came along, I had a newfound desire to make Chanukah more meaningful, and I really put my

back into it.

We bought her eight gifts — one for each night — and the house was an explosion of Stars of David and dreidels. I plugged “Chanukah songs” into Pandora and heard every instrumental version of The Dreidel Song you could imagine.

And while my husband and my daughter seemed delighted by my efforts, I wasn’t as pleased. I still felt incomplete. I still yearned for that Christmas feeling, and I just couldn’t conjure it up via Chanukah.

Over time, I grew to like Chanukah more and more, but it wasn’t until this year — 11 years past my conversion — that I find myself yearning for Chanukah, grateful for it, beyond happy that I’m a Jew during the Christmas season.

What changed? I stopped trying to make Chanukah into Christmas, that’s what. I started to look at Chanukah as the holiday it is — a minor one meant to light a spark in our hearts during this dark time of year and to reignite our pride in our Jewish heritage.

It’s not as big a deal as Christmas because it’s not our major holiday. And it doesn’t have to be. And now I absolutely love that about it.

Which doesn’t mean I don’t have fun with it. We bought a cheesy electric menorah this year because Dave mentioned he had one as a kid and always loved it.

We bought both of our kids eight gifts each and even have theme nights (book night, chocolate night, art supply night, etc.). We plan to eat latkes most if not all the nights, and I went to a local chocolate store to buy the “good gelt” (i.e. the stuff that actually tastes like chocolate).

We’ve already finished decorating our house, an effort led with seriousness and dedication by my 7-year-old and composed mostly of handmade crafts.

And we have more meaningful activities planned, like going to our local nursing home to light the menorah and sing Chanukah songs with our older neighbors.

We discovered, after some work, that there are more than two Chanukah songs, and Dave can play them beautifully on his guitar.

We’ll meet up with our Jewish chosen family here for a few different parties — one at our beloved synagogue. Stella’s going to invite over her best friend, a sweet Catholic girl, to teach her about Chanukah. And every single night, when I light the shamash candle, I will say a prayer that will have great meaning to me.

It will be wonderful, fun and festive, and it won’t be Christmas. And while I’ll always treasure my childhood memories of Christmas, I’m relieved to be released of it now.

My heart swells with love and gratitude at the coming of the holiday season. The carols in the stores make me smile and fill my head with sweet memories that I’ll treasure forever.

One night, we’ll pile the kids in the car to look at the gorgeously decorated homes in our neighborhood, and we’ll drink some hot chocolate when we return.

We’ll even gather with my Christian family around my mom’s sweet tree and watch our cousins’ faces beam with joy at the gifts we gave them.

But what I’m most looking forward to is my 2-year-old son’s look of wonder when all eight candles are lit, at watching my daughter hug an elderly woman who’s missing her own grandchildren, and singing Matisyahu’s Miracle and really meaning it when I belt out the words: “Eight nights, eight lights, and these rites keep me right, so bless me to the highest heights with your miracle.”

I stopped trying to make Chanukah into Christmas

Randi Skaggs is a middle school language arts teacher and mother of two in Louisville, Ky. She is an avid storyteller.

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9 things you might not know about Chanukah

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By Julie Wiener, JTA Chanukah, which starts at sundown on Dec. 24, is among the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays in the United States. There’s always something new to learn about this eight-day festival. We’ve compiled an item for each candle (don’t forget the shamash!) on the Chanukah menorah.

1. Gelt as we know it is a relatively new tradition — and no one knows who invented it.

While coins — gelt is Yiddish for coins, or money — have been part of the Chanukah observance for centuries, chocolate gelt is considerably younger. In her book On the Chocolate Trail, Rabbi Deborah Prinz writes that “opinions differ” concerning the origins of chocolate gelt.

Some credit America’s Loft candy company with creating it in the 1920s, while others suggest there were European versions earlier that inspired Israel’s Elite candy company. Prinz notes as well, that chocolate gelt resembles a European Christmas tradition of exchanging gold-covered chocolate coins “commemorating the miracles of St. Nicholas.”

2. The first Chanukah celebration was actually a delayed Sukkot observance. The second book of Maccabees quotes from a letter sent circa 125 B.C.E. from the Hasmoneans, the Maccabees’ descendants, to the leaders of Egyptian Jewry describing the holiday as “the festival of Sukkot celebrated in the month of Kislev rather than Tishri.” Since the Jews were still in caves fighting as guerrillas over the month of Tishri in 164 BCE, they had been unable to honor the eight-day holiday of Sukkot, which required visiting the Temple in Jerusalem. Hence it was postponed until after the recapture of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Temple.

Many scholars believe it is this — not the Talmudic legend of the single cruse of oil that lasted eight days — that explains why Chanukah is eight days long.

3. The books of Maccabees, which tell the story of Chanukah, were not included in the Hebrew Bible — but they are in the Catholic Bible. There are different theories explaining why the first-century rabbis who canonized the scriptures omitted the Maccabees, ranging from the text’s relative newness

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A Chanukah menu with a healthy flair, and latkes

By Megan Wolf, JTA Chanukah is a joyful holiday with delicious food and family memories. I remember lighting our menorah as a little girl with my bubbie (grandmother).

Now, raising my daughter, I hope to create special memories with her.

Food is typically at the center of our celebrations, and this Chanukah, I have created a spinach-focused menu for a delicious and festive meal.

Starting with creamy white bean soup, inspired by my mother’s love for soup served in large mugs, this dish sets the tone for a deliciously healthy meal.

Warm and satisfying, this dish is topped with jeweltoned sautéed spinach and is pretty enough to serve to company. And it’s easy enough to make on a weeknight.

Most people think about traditional potato latkes on Chanukah. My Spinach, Broccoli and Scallion Pancakes with Poached Eggs are just as delicious — you can serve without the eggs, if you like.

Growing up, we would enjoy sour cream and applesauce with our potato latkes.

Sour cream (or greek yogurt!) would be a perfect pairing for these light, vegetable-filled pancakes. I like mine with hot sauce.

Spinach Salad with Quinoa, Toasted Pistachios and Cranberries is among my favorite recipes from my cookbook Great Meals with Greens and Grains, with its interesting textures, bold flavors, and a bright and balanced dressing.

It could not be easier to make and is sure to be a hit on your holiday table.

Here are the recipes for these winning dishes.

Creamy White Bean Soup With Sautéed Spinach

Creamy White Bean Soup With Sautéed Spinach Serves 4 1 head garlic, top quarter sliced off and discarded 1/4 cup olive oil, divided, plus more for garnish 1 Tbsp. butter 1 medium Vidalia onion, sliced 21/2 cups low-sodium vegetable stock, divided 1 dried bay leaf 2 cans (15 oz. each) white beans, rinsed and drained, divided 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese Salt to taste 5 oz. baby spinach Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place the garlic on a piece of aluminum foil and drizzle with one tablespoon of the olive oil.

Wrap into a pouch and roast for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the garlic is soft and golden brown.

In a large stockpot, heat two tablespoons of the olive oil and

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Add the onion and cook until soft, stirring occasionally, about five minutes.

Add 21/4 cups of the vegetable stock, the bay leaf and one can of the white beans to the onions.

Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and let simmer for about 20 minutes.

Once the garlic is roasted, add it to the soup by popping each clove out of its protective paper.

In batches, transfer to a blender or food processor and purée until smooth, then pour the soup back into the stockpot.

Add the remaining can of white beans, remaining quarter cup vegetable stock and the Parmesan to the puréed mixture and heat through, about 10 minutes. Season to taste with salt.

In a sauté pan, heat the remaining one tablespoon olive oil, then add the spinach. Cook until completely wilted, about four minutes.

To serve, pour equal amounts of the soup into each of four bowls and top with the sautéed spinach and an extra drizzle of olive oil.

Tips: Make sure you are constantly scraping the bottom of the stockpot — that’s where so much flavor lives.

Use the best olive oil you can find; it really makes such a difference, especially when used as a garnish.

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Spinach, Broccoli And Scallion Pancakes With Poached Eggs Serves 4 For the pancakes: 11/2 cups chopped broccoli 4 cups packed baby spinach 3 Tbsp. olive oil, divided 3 eggs 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese 4 scallions, thinly sliced, divided For the eggs: 4 cups water 4 large eggs 1 Tbsp. white vinegar Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place a rimmed baking sheet in the oven to heat.

To make the pancakes: Steam the broccoli until tender but still crisp, about three to five minutes.

While the broccoli cooks, sauté the spinach in one tablespoon of the olive oil in a skillet until wilted, about three minutes, then remove from the heat and roughly chop.

In a large bowl, scramble the eggs, and then add the baking soda, flour, panko and Parmesan cheese; stir to combine.

Add the broccoli, spinach and half the scallions. Mix to combine.

Remove the hot baking sheet from the oven and grease with the remaining two tablespoons olive oil. With an ice cream scoop, place pancakes evenly on the baking sheet.

Gently press the top of each pancake to flatten. Bake for 10 minutes, then flip and bake for another two minutes, or until the centers of the pancakes are cooked through.

To make the poached eggs (start with about eight minutes remaining on the pancakes): Boil the water in a large highrimmed skillet.

Once the water comes to a boil, crack each egg into its own ramekin.

Add the white vinegar to the boiling water, reduce the heat to medium-low and drop each egg into the hot water. Cover the skillet and let the eggs cook for three minutes.

Remove the pancakes from the oven and serve two or three to a plate depending on their size.

Top each plate with a poached egg and a sprinkle of the remaining scallions. Serve immediately.

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To make the salad: Combine the quinoa and water in a pot and bring to a boil.

Once the water is boiling, turn down the heat to low, cover the pot and cook another 10 minutes, or until the quinoa has softened and the water has evaporated; set aside.

Toast the pistachios in a small skillet over low heat until they are just golden brown and fragrant, three to five minutes; set aside.

Place the spinach in a large bowl. Thinly slice the pear and add it to the bowl along with the cranberries and olives.

Just prior to serving, add the toasted pistachios and cooked quinoa, toss with the lemon vinaigrette and season to taste with salt.

Serve family style, or in individual bowls or on plates.

Tip: Getting the garlic really finely minced or crushed will help the flavor dissipate, so that instead of biting into a piece of raw garlic, the salad is nicely seasoned with a garlic essence.

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By Samantha Ferraro, JTA Growing up, my mom always made the best latkes. And while I know everyone probably says this about their mom, I maintain her latkes really were the best.

She would stand over the sink shredding and shredding potatoes until night’s end. Then she would insist on squeezing as much water out of the vegetables as possible. And when she thought they were dry, she would squeeze some more.

A labor of love, for sure.

Though I get inspired from my mother’s method, I have updated my own latke recipes and techniques with some modern twists.

Instead of standing over the sink shredding potatoes till sunlight, my hefty powerhouse food processor does all the work for me. My mom was shocked when I told her I don’t grate them by hand anymore, and I still hear stories of her battle wounds to prove her latke love.

One of the most important tricks for successful latke frying is about prepping. Frying latkes is a messy job. You don’t want to walk away from hot oil, but instead be in control of it.

I always like to have a cookie sheet ready with a cooling rack and then two layers of paper towels. That way I can transfer the latkes directly from the pan to the cooling rack after they come out of the hot oil.

And no overcrowding the

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pan — there should be no more than three or four latkes in the pan at one time. This ensures the temperature remains even and cooks up perfectly crispy latkes.

For a fun modern twist, these Indian-spiced cauliflower latkes are a spinoff of one of my favorite Indian dishes, Aloo Gobi. Potatoes and cauliflower are braised with spicy flavors of jalapeno, turmeric and curry. The sauce is a bright cilantro and mint chutney, also easily made in the food processor, and pairs Indian Spiced Cauliflower Latkes with perfectly with the Cilantro Chutney crispy spiced latke. and onion, but do not add to Indian Spiced Cauliflower the bowl yet.

Latkes with Cilantro Chutney Place the onions and potatoes in a clean dish towel and For the latkes: wrap around potatoes, only 2 russet potatoes, peeled a handful at a time. Then use and cut into quarters (if your mighty strength and using a food processor) squeeze out as much moisture ¼ large white onion as you can. Then squeeze a 2 cups cauliflower florets, little more. Once they are dry, hard stems removed add them to the cauliflower 1 tsp. turmeric powder bowl. Repeat until all potatoes ¼ tsp. coriander and onions are dry. ½ tsp. curry powder Then add the rest of the 2 eggs spices, eggs, matzah meal and 3 Tbsp. matzah meal green onion. Mix everything to2 green onions, chopped gether until well incorporated.

Salt and pepper to taste Heat a large skillet with about ½ inch oil to about 350 For the cilantro and mint degrees. I like to test the oil chutney: with a small piece of potato. If 1 bunch cilantro, large stems it sizzles, it’s ready. removed (about 1½-2 cups, Use two tablespoons to form loosely packed) latke and place in hot oil. Then 1 small bunch fresh mint, use the back of the spoon to stems removed (about 1 gently flatten it out. cup, loosely packed) Fry latkes for about three 2 Tbsp. yogurt (for nonto four minutes until golden dairy, you can use full fat brown; turn over and finish frycoconut milk) ing for another three minutes. ½ lemon, zested and juiced Remove latkes with a slotted 1 tsp. honey spatula onto a paper towel½ jalapeno, roughly lined baking sheet and season chopped (seeds removed if with a sprinkle of salt if you’d you prefer less heat) like. ½ inch ginger root, peeled To make the chutney: Add and grated all the chutney ingredients to a 1 garlic clove food processor and pulse until Salt and pepper, to taste incorporated. Scrape it down canola or vegetable oil for after every few pulses. Pulse frying until desired consistency and until there are no large leaves To make the latkes, first add left. the cauliflower florets in a food Serve latkes with chutney processor and pulse until they and garnish with fresh cilantro are fine and even pieces, then leaves. transfer to a large bowl.

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Brisket-Stuffed Papas Rellenas

By Jennifer Stempel, JTA Cooking enough for an army has been a long-established tradition of Jewish mothers across the globe, but mine takes it to a new level.

I can’t think of a meal prepared by my mother where there wasn’t enough food for each diner to have Brisket-Stuffed Papas Rellenas second or even third helpings.

In fact, guests know that if in a row of eating brisket, I find my mom is preparing a fesmyself craving a bit of variety. tive meal, they most certainly Papas Rellenas, or Stuffed should arrive hungry.

Potato Balls, offer a great This, of course, is no acrespite to the repetitive nature cident. As an immigrant who of leftovers, and are perfect suffered great hardships in for the second or third night of her native land of Cuba, my Chanukah. mother’s biggest fear in life is Like a perfectly baked loaf not having enough food. of crusty bread, the crunchy, One look at the luxgolden fried crust of the ury of an American Papas Rellenas leads the supermarket, where way to a soft and delithere are aisles upon cate interior, and the aisles stocked with meat filling is the surcountless varieties prise within a surprise. of culinary offerings, Traditionally stuffed you’d think that fear with picadillo, or seasoned would be quashed. ground meat, Papas Rellenas However, this deeply rooted can just as easily be stuffed concern reflects less on the with shredded leftover brisket abundance that is available in or any other protein of choice. the states and stems more from My favorite version includes her experience growing up in the Cuban answer to brisket, a Third World country, where Ropa Vieja, and will certainly she wasn’t sure if her next meal be the highlight of your Chanuwould offer enough to fill her kah table or anytime you need then-growing belly. a festive, fried finger food.

Regardless of its origins, the fact that my mom is known for Brisket-Stuffed cooking in abundance is good Papas Rellenas news for any of her guests Yields 6 to 8 servings because you can be sure that she’ll send you home with 2 lbs. potatoes, peeled and some leftovers. cubed Perhaps it’s because of this 1 tsp. garlic powder practice that I have become ½ tsp. onion powder well versed in the art of reinsalt and pepper venting leftovers.

1 lb. leftover shredded As delicious as my mother’s brisket (or Ropa Vieja) cooking is, after the third night 1 cup all purpose flour

2 large eggs, beaten 1 cup breadcrumbs oil for frying In a large pot, cover the potatoes with cold water and bring to a boil.

Cook the potatoes until tender, about 15-20 minutes.

Drain completely, add garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper, and mash until smooth.

Set aside to cool.

(Note: It is easier to work with the potatoes if they are completely cooled.

Although not essential, it is recommended to make the potatoes ahead of time, and cool completely in the refrigerator.)

Create a breading station by adding the flour, eggs and breadcrumbs to individual shallow bowls.

Place two heaping tablespoons of the cooled potatoes in your palm and form a patty.

Add one heaping tablespoon of the leftover brisket to the center of the patty, and use your thumbs to mold the potatoes into a ball, covering the brisket.

Coat the ball in flour, shaking off the excess. Dip in the eggs, and then cover with the breadcrumbs. Set on a cookie sheet until all the potato balls are coated.

Heat oil in a skillet to about 375 degrees, and fry the potato balls in small batches for about one to two minutes, or until golden brown and heated through. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels.

Serve immediately or at room temperature.

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Renate Houser Wasserman Harlan: Ronnie Harlan went to her final rest at age 88 on Nov. 4. Mrs. Harlan was born on March 7, 1928 in Cologne, Germany. Mrs. Harlan lived in Cologne with her parents and her sister, Erica, until 1938, when they fled Germany after the Nazi pogroms known as Kristallnacht. After spending a year in England, they immigrated to Cincinnati.

Within a year of their arrival, Mrs. Harlan’s father passed away, leaving her mother with the task of raising two teenage daughters in a new country with no means of support.

Mrs. Harlan’s mother became a seamstress at Pogue’s to support them while she and Erica found jobs. Mrs. Harlan went to college at University of Cincinnati, where she obtained a bachelor of arts degree. She then took a job at Fashion Frocks, doing the artwork for their print advertisements for women’s fashions. While at UC, she met Allan Wasserman, a medical student, whom she married. They moved to Dayton where Allan set up his practice, and had two children

in Dayton, Marjorie and Steven.

They had a wonderful life, with both active in civic affairs, as well as enjoying gardening and traveling, while she kept up her artwork with water color paintings which were loved by all who saw them. She suffered another terrible blow when, in October 1972, Allan died of a heart attack at age 44 while they were on vacation in Japan. She survived this terrible shock and, with the love and support of her and Allan’s many friends, kept the household going until Margie and Steve went off to college.

She then met and married Roy Harlan. Their families were joined by the marriage in 1972, Margie and Steve with Roy’s children, Jan and Larry. The couple shared many wonderful years and interests, traveling widely around the world and planting spectacular vegetable gardens every summer.

They shared the bounty with everyone they knew, and canned and preserved the rest. Unfortunately, after 34 years of marriage and sharing their lives with one another and their children, first on Folsom Drive in Dayton and then in Kettering, Roy passed away at the age of 94 in 2006, leaving Mrs. Harlan alone again. At that point, she moved to Cincinnati to live near Margie, where she lived until she passed away.

Mrs. Harlan is survived and mourned by her loving children and grandchildren: daughter Margie Wasserman Kessel and Charles Kessel and their children Alex and Sara Kessel and Scott and Barbie Kessel; by son Steven Wasserman his wife Sharon Wasserman and their children Allison and Josh Wasserman; by son-inlaw and daughter Robert and

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Jan Newman; and by son and daughter-in-law Larry and Debbie Harlan and their children Matthew Harlan and Rachel and Ryan Anderson and great-grandson Owen. Mrs. Harlan was recognized time and again for her extraordinary generosity and contributions to the community, including: National Women’s Division United Jewish Appeal and as one of Dayton’s outstanding Jewish women, for her significant contributions to the cause of Jewish survival; the United Jewish Appeal Award of Merit for outstanding achievement on behalf of the people of Israel; The Jewish Community Council for distinguished leadership and community service as recipient of the Dorothy B. Moyer Leadership Award of the Jewish Community Council of Dayton; Certificate of Appreciation from the Dayton Art Institute for years of devoted volunteer service; by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton for devoted leadership as an officer of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton; by The Board of Jewish Family Services, Dayton, in appreciation of her dedication, leadership and devoted energy; by the Dayton Daily News as one of its Ten Top Women in Dayton; and by the Jewish Federation of Greater Dayton for her service from 1970 to 1993. Mrs. Harlan also volunteered for the Dayton Ballet, and helped resettle numerous refugees from Russia and Vietnam in Dayton.

She loved working with her Russian and Vietnamese families, helping them get settled, having them to her house for holiday meals, and providing clothing, furniture and guidance as they adjusted to their lives here. She also served on the Montgomery County Mental Health Board.

Mrs. Harlan lived a life of love and service. She had many talents, as an artist, cook, and gardener. She was generous to a fault. She exemplified her wonderful qualities in her roles as a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and civic servant. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. Donations in memory of Mrs. Harlan can be made to the Jewish National Fund, the Jewish Federation, the Dayton Art Institute or a charity of choice.

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OBITUARIES Stephen “Steve” Harris died Nov. 17 at the age of 65. Mr. Harris was the owner and president of Rixan Associates Inc., an industrial robotics company that’s been operating in the Dayton area since 1959.

The son of Aaron “Rick” and Beatrice Harris, Mr. Harris was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on July 22, 1951. The Harris family moved to Dayton when Mr. Harris was a young child, and he attended Shiloh Elementary School and graduated from Meadowdale High School in 1969. He then moved on to attend Bowling Green State University where he received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry. This is where Mr. Harris met the love of his life, Deborah “Deb” Wycoff, and they married in June 1974.

Working for Nalco Chemical Company for 10 years, the couple lived in Schereville, Ind.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and St. Louis. The move to Dayton was made in winter 1983, when he joined his father as a partner in Rixan. Mr. Harris, a natural entrepreneur, transformed the business from government suppliers to a robotics and turn-key automation systems company. Their first child, Amanda “Mandy,” was born in January 1986 followed by son, Alexander “Al,” in February 1990. Mr. Harris’ biggest passion outside of work was Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). Starting as a race car driver, Mr. Harris ascended through the ranks to become a member of SCCA’s executive board. His love of all things automobile, resulted in his co-founding of the Dayton Concours d’Elegance, which he chaired for 10 years. Another interest was football, where, besides agonizing over the Bengals, he coached his son Al in Centerville’s Wee Elks program for six years. Mr. and Mrs. Harris counted traveling, hiking, and wine among their many interests together. A loving husband, incredibly devoted father, and great friend to many, Mr. Harris will be sorely missed by his family and all who knew him. Mr. Harris is also survived by his mother, Bea Harris (Dayton) and his sister, Joan Steinberg (Augusta, Ga.). Interment was at Riverview Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

Elsie M. Mintz, age 94, of Dayton, formerly of the Chicago area, passed away Nov. 18. Mrs. Mintz was a life member of Hadassah. She is survived by two daughters: Judy (Alan) Chesen and Carole (Neal) Eikenberry, five grandchildren, two greatgrandchildren, two greatgreat grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Interment was at Portage, Ind. Memorial contributions may be made to Beth Abraham Synagogue or the charity of your choice.

Harriet Austrian Pinkus, age 93, of Miamisburg, passed away at Kingston of Miamisburg Nursing Home.

Mrs. Pinkus was a lifelong member of Beth Abraham Synagogue. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jacob and Sara Austrian, and her husband, Irwin A. Pinkus. She is survived by her two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert and Pamela, and Alan and Rebecca; three granddaughters, Sarah Ellen Pinkus Chaffe, Rachel A.

Pinkus, and Barrie L. Pinkus all from the Dayton area; one great-grandson, Liam Jacob Chaffe. Interment was at Beth Abraham Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Beth Abraham Synagogue.

Manuel “Manny” Tabackman was born Feb. 20, 1924 and passed away Nov. 18 in Palm Desert, Calif. He was in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and after the war settled in Dayton with his wife, Colleen, and two daughters, Marla and Diane, devotedly serving the insurance needs to many lifelong friends and clients through First Insurance Co. Mr. Tabackman was preceded in death by his mother and father, Lillie Cohen and Max Tabackman, his wife, Colleen, and daughter, Marla.

He is survived by his loving daughter and son-in-law Diane Rose and Gary Fenn. Diane may be contacted by email: dianerfenn@icloud.com or mail at 72328 Bajada Trail, Palm Desert, CA 92260.

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Born in Israel and now living in Toronto, Tsabari writes with an uncommon immediacy and energy. As she Ayelet Tsabari tells me, she’s a writer with a mission — “to tell Mizrahi stories,” referring to narrator in Warplanes who, like Tsabari, Jews of Middle Eastern and North Aflost her father during the time of the rican descent, who were largely absent Lebanon War. from the books she read growing up.

The narrator laments that he doesn’t While she’s writing though, she’s not get the attention or honor that those thinking about a specific message. who are war heroes (and their families) “If I did, it receive; her beloved father died of a wouldn’t make weak heart. The story takes place in for a good September, just before Rosh Hashanah, story,” she says. when it’s not supposed to rain, but the “When I write, air feels heavy with moisture, “like I just write.” being draped in a sheet just out of a Tsabari will close this washing machine.” year’s JCC Cultural Arts and Book Tsabari’s father — to whom the book Fest with a Dec. 8 event at the Dayton is dedicated — was a lawyer and also Woman’s Club. a poet. In an early poem he wrote, “A She is the recipient of the 2015 Sami poet’s craft is an artist’s kingdom/not Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (with for you, son of Yemen.” That line breaks its $100,000 cash award) for her debut her heart. Haim Tsabari published one collection of stories, The Best Place on poem in 1967. After he died, his friends Earth. published a volume of his Tsabari grew up in Petah poetry.

Tikveh, outside of Tel Aviv, Her stories are peopled with five siblings in her Yewith the children and menite family. She sees herself grandchildren of immiin all of the characters in this grants from Yemen, Iraq collection, and admits a soft and Morocco, children of spot for the sensitive young Sinai settlers, illegal workboy Uri in The Poets in the ers, displaced and tranKitchen Window. sient Israelis and others That story is set during who, like the title of one Operation Desert Storm, when story, have been Invisible.

Uri and his family carry their In these stories, family gas masks everywhere and ties — between siblings, frequently hear the sirens that between parents and send them into sealed rooms children — are sometimes and underground shelters. stretched and pulled, but they are Initially Uri hides his love of poetry elastic, with room to bounce back and so that he isn’t made fun of in school, chances for forgiveness. but when his sister brings him a volume Tsabari has been writing since she of poetry by an Iraqi writer who found was a child. Even before she knew how inspiration in the streets of their Ramat to write, she would create comic strips Gan neighborhood, he begins filling and tell stories. When she was 10, she notebooks with new poems and images. had her first publication in an Israeli Uri’s sister has just returned from children’s magazine.

India; his mother is in a psychiatric Although her native language is Hehospital and his father is largely absent, brew, Tsabari now writes in English, as as “poems tugged at him.” she has been doing since 2006. (She has The author also mentions the young lived in Canada for 17 years.)

“It wasn’t a conscious decision,” she The JCC’s Cultural Arts & Book Fest explains. “There was no definitive mopresents author Ayelet Tsabari on Thursday, ment. I went a few years without writDec. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Dayton Woman’s ing at all. I felt lost between languages Club, 225 N. Ludlow St., Dayton. $5 in — I wasn’t using Hebrew that much advance, $8 at the door. R.S.V.P. to 610and my English wasn’t good enough, 1555 or at jewishdayton.org.

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sees no contradiction in this. She thinks of much Jewish writing as having “a sentimental tone, a little bit somber, Continued from previous page with longing. I feel like there’s much of and I felt at the time that it would never that in my writing, and also the sense of be good enough. It was a painful and drama and conflict. Those passions are lengthy process.” very Israeli.”

Eventually, she says that she had to In her office, there’s a large mirror go for it, to risk the ridicule. “It’s a good and she makes use of it. She used to act, way to keep you humble,” she says. and she speaks certain lines out loud as “What I miss most about Hebrew is she is writing. She’ll look at the mirror something not really identifiable. It’s to be able to describe a certain gesture or what you miss at home, the feel of it, the facial expression and to create realistic smell of it,” she says, adding, “There’s dialogue. something very comfortable about HeIn addition to writing, Tsabari takes brew. Like an old shirt.” photographs, and when she was “beAt times, “Hebrew butts in. A word, a tween languages” she made some docuphrase. I just let it. I don’t like to intermentary films. fere too much and will write the Hebrew She says that photography feeds words in English lettering.” her writing. “It’s a break from words.

Does she think about living in Israel It’s nice to see, nice not to speak. The again? “All the time. I wish I had an quietness of it is very appealing. I have easier time with committing to just stay- been told that my writing has a bit of a ing where I am. I’m happy. Canada is a cinematic quality. You can see that I see great country. Wonderful the world in a very visual things happened to me in way. I’m very attentive Canada,” she says. While to sensory details, not she knows people who just visually, but smell is are content where they important, too. I create a are, she is tortured. “I picture.” struggle every time I go, Her writing has the for a long period of time. poetic quality of someone I think, I could do this. I who sees deeply and with could be home again.” compassion, ever aware So how did she end up of her surroundings. She in Canada, married to a stays with her literary imCanadian man, raising ages for an extra second their 2-year-old daughter — she speaks or two, adding a layer of description Hebrew to her — in Toronto? and intensifying the moment.

“There’s always a guy,” she laughs. In During her stay in Israel, she interher 20s, she drifted, like many Israelis, viewed elderly Yemenite women around to India; she met a Canadian man there the country, taking down their life and moved back to Vancouver with him. stories, songs, rituals, beliefs and memo“It wasn’t a calculated plan, I wasn’t ries, and taking their photographic porthinking of moving for good, but why traits. The women are mostly illiterate, not?” The relationship ended, and she and their stories are largely unknown stayed. She moved to Toronto six years and, as Tsabari remarks, “on the verge of ago. being lost.” This is part of a decade-long When she began writing in English, documentary project. she wanted to fit in, but she became inThe recipient of several Canadian creasingly aware that she wasn’t North literary awards, she is now working American. Rather, she recognized that on a memoir in essays and a novel. In her heritage and upbringing shaped her Toronto, she teaches creative non-fiction personality and informs her writing, writing, which she loves doing, and both in content and style. also looks forward to taking a break to She has long loved the Bible — she’s devote full time to writing, thanks to the admittedly not a religious person but Rohr Prize.

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